[cc-community] free culture site
Kev Flanagan
kev.flanagan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 11:28:33 EST 2007
Hello Mauro,
Take a look at the P2P Foundation Blog and Wiki site.
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/about/
I'm not sure if is exactly what you have in mind, but there is a lot of work
being done there to bring these communities and movements together.
Kev
On 10/28/07, Mauro Bieg <mauro.bieg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey!
>
> I feel like all the free culture, creative commons, free software,
> open source, open access, anti-DRM, etc. movements have a lot in
> common (although they have their differences too). That's why I wrote
> a simple but comprehensive text for newcomers to make them understand
> easily what all this is mostly about and where it is (I think)
> essentially heading: a choice or even a battle between 'the
> proprietary' and 'the free' in various fields.
>
> Because I thought many more people might be able to contribute more
> detailed information on the many initiatives that are applying
> free/open source ideas in various fields, or might want to write about
> other things concerning the movement, I created a wiki and published
> the text there.
> http://www.sphereofnetworks.org/
>
> There exist already so many organizations and communities all fighting
> more or less for the same goals, in the same direction, although in
> different fields or domains and maybe for different reasons. This is
> good and because not everybody agrees on every detail, there need to
> be lots of smaller communities. But I'd like to see a place which is a
> portal to all those communities and a website where people from all
> over the various movements meet, network and sum up their initiatives
> and their struggle (some in the field of software, others fighting DRM
> or making a free movie like Elephant's Dream).
>
> Of course I can't just put up a website and expect everyone to come
> over at once. So, it might be easier to add the idea to an existing
> site and start off with the community there. On the other hand, if the
> place is already associated with a given community, it can't really
> act as a 'meta-site', as a neutral platform. But if anyone sees fit
> for this in their community or knows about a good place to put it,
> please tell me!
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't too much time at the moment and community
> building is really hard work. Nonetheless, I would like to see my text
> contributing to something useful, and I do think it might help
> introduce newcomers into the issues quite reqdily. So, I'm also
> thinking about simply transferring the whole thing to Wikibooks. I
> guess the text is quite useful (well, judge for yourself), but as I'm
> not a native English speaker someone would have to go over it and make
> some corrections. (the wiki is open!)
>
> I would love to hear what you think about the idea and its potential
> for realization. Entirely utopian or even unnecessary? Is anyone
> interested in helping me out or taking it over? Thanks a lot for your
> advice.
>
> Best regards,
> Mauro
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