Online Creation Communities

Moving to Berkeley 8th of July until end of December: Visiting School of information

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:46:54 +0000

I am moving to Berkeley next 8th of July until end of December. I will be visiting the School of information - UC Berkeley. I will be collaborating with Howard Rheingold and Coye Chesire . I will also be doing field work on two of my case studies (one is Wikipedia).

Marco Berlinguer (my partner and researcher on new forms of political organization) will be coming for some period, too. We will be trying to build bridges between the techno-political scene and Social Forum process in Europe and the State in the frame of the Networked Politics Project.

This new adventure makes me very happy! I will be posting news from it here regularly.

If you have any suggestion on places to go or people to meet in California! I would appreciate if you let me know. If you are at California and are interested on this research and my work on online creation communities governance I would be happy on meeting you. Contact: mayo.fuster@eui.eu

In solidarity! Mayo

SELF - Science Education and Learning in Freedom - Platform

Mayo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:43:03 +0000

The aims to be the central platform with high quality educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards. It is based on world-class Free Software technologies that permit both reading and publishing free materials, and is driven by a worldwide community.

Free/Open Source Research Community

Mayo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:54:28 +0000

“In the spirit of free and open source software (F/OSS), we are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that we may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development. We invite researchers to post their papers on open source and free software here, and to add themselves to the research directory, so that our community can become steadily larger and more comprehensive”.

Connexions

Mayo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:50:26 +0000

Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.

Anyone may view or contribute:

authors create and collaborate
instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
learners find and explore content

(13 Feb 2008)

World Social Forum 2008 Map of actions

Mayo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:54:48 +0000

The Global Call for Action is asking social movements and civil society worldwide to mobilize together in the week culminating on January 26, 2008.

The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action. Since the first world encounter in 2001, it has taken the form of a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies. This definition is in its Charter of Principles, the WSF’s guiding document.

The World Social Forum is also characterized by plurality and diversity, is non-confessional, non-governmental and non-party. It proposes to facilitate decentralized coordination and networking among organizations engaged in concrete action towards building another world, at any level from the local to the international, but it does not intend to be a body representing world civil society. The World Social Forum is not a group nor an organization. (13 Feb 2008)

GERM – Groupe d’etudes et de recherches sur les mondialisations

Mayo — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:48:24 +0000

The www.globalisations.org Website is thus conceived as a training and self-training tool, dedicated to professional, pedagogical or merely personal use. « Globalisations » refers to all cultural, social, economic and political processes which are “globalised”, meaning: i) circulated at world scale, despite of national, geographic, technological and linguistic barriers ; ii) offering to men from every origin, country or culture: comparable ideas, contents, services and products ; and, finally: iii) able to produce a global impact on human activities, whatever they might be. The website has a critical dictionary of terms.

Interaction Design

Mayo — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:33:48 +0000

Beginnings of a free, open-content, peer-reviwed Encyclopedia covering terms from the disciplines of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related fields.

Mayo — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:26:00 +0000

Beppegrillo.it aims at providing a free platform for all citizens who are willing to communicate and share information, regardless of their political views. Facilitated by a direct link with the online social networking portal Meetup.com3, the blog aims at being the first point of call for people who are looking to engage both online and off in fight against the monopoly grip on truth exercised by politically-biased media. To date, the Meetup.com group category ‘Friends of Beppe Grillo’ has around 33,000 members, themselves organised in 199 groups located in 157 cities in 15 different countries. The friendship groups meet regularly, and sometimes, when possible, Grillo himself attends their meetings. (http://beppegrillo.meetup.com/about/?gmap=1, Data retrieved on 01 May 2007).

Del.icio.us/

Mayo — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:23:24 +0000

Social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Now it has more than three million users and 100 million bookmarked URLs.

Facebook

Mayo — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:52:12 +0000

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.