[FM Discuss] floss entry to ars

[adam hyde]

hiya,

so the deadline has been extended to march 19. 

The fields where we need things entered include:

1. Description of your project*
What is your project about, who are the people involved and adressed.

2. Objectives:* 
What is the objective of your project? What is the common goal, topic,
interest, etc. of the community or the main uses of the software?

3. Language and context: 
In which cultural and geographic context is the project rooted?

4. Project History:* 
What was the project's origin, when and how did it start? How did it
develop up to the present day?

5. People:* 
What is the core team carrying the project? How many (groups of)
individuals are currently involved as members or users? How would you
charaterize the people participating in the project? Is access to the
project open or restricted?

6. Lessons learned:
What has worked / what has not worked in the process of realisation of
your project?

7. Technological basis:* 
What is the technological basis of your project or software
(infrastructure, operating system environment, connectivity /
telecommunication, etc.)?

8. Solutions:
If your submission is a software, please describe the problem it is
answering to, what solutions and most important features it offers.

9. Implementations:
In what areas / sectors / regions is your software currently applied?
Where are running implementations of your software to be found?

10. Users:
Who are its (potential) users and beneficiaries?

11. Statement of Reasons:* 
Why the submitted project deserves to win a prize in the "Digital
Communities" category.

12. Planned use of prize money:*



For the last one (12) I put:
"Organise a FLOSS Manuals free documentation festival. The first of its
kind internationally, to bring free documentation writers from around
the world together to discuss their practice and write documents."

We also need to Upload a detailed description of the work (FLOSS
Manuals).

If anyone wants to start filling out these please do and send to me
directly or to the list for discussion. Once we have enough for all the
fields I can enter the info into their forms and then post the account
details here so anyone can edit it up until march 19.


the explanation of the category we are entering is as follows:
(from http://www.aec.at/en/prix/cat_digital_communities.asp)

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The "Digital Communities" category is open to political, social,
cultural and artistic projects, initiatives, groups, and scenes from all
over the world utilizing digital technology to better society and assume
social responsibility. It is meant to recognize the initiators and
propagators of these communities as well as the developers of the
relevant technologies, and to honor those whose work contributes to the
establishment and proliferation of digital communities as well as
provide understanding and research into them.

A Golden Nica will be awarded in order to recognize the vast array of
relevant projects between grassroots operations and professional
solutions, the diversity of approaches and aspects from community
innovation to social software excellence as well as the broad spectrum
of submitters involved, ranging from private initiatives to public
institutions. Particular emphasis will be placed on a project's
"community innovation," its sustainability in terms of cultures,
environment and economy, and its appropriate use of technology enabling
and empowering the actual users. This could be a novel method for
connecting already existing technology or optimizing the use of an
available infrastructure.

Jury members will be looking to recognize technological-social
solutions, "social software tools," artistic and cultural endeavors as
well as socio-technological infrastructure with great promise, as well
as the brilliant realization of such concepts. Their evaluations and
decisions will honor visionary and forward-looking projects and
artworks; those that display consummate social and technological
innovativeness and that have been successfully set up and established.
In their selection, the jury will place particular emphasis on the
reasonableness, appropriateness, and openness of the solutions. Digital
Communities projects should enable human beings to enjoy the widest
possible access to technology, networks, content, and the "Digital
Commons." 

The Jury gives particular consideration to net-based artworks and
net.art-projects with sociopolitical relevance. Network art projects
must constitute artistic confrontations with the technical and cultural
characteristics of the Internet and go beyond simply using the Web as a
platform for the dissemination of content. Thus, the Internet’s
system-immanent qualities should serve as the basis of the artistic
approach taken by a submitted work.

The winning projects should be able to serve as a model to be copied by
others, and, in their orientation on the future, be a source of
inspiration, encouragement, and enablement. Among the projects,
phenomena, artworks and fields of activity subsumed under the heading
Digital Communities are:

      * social software
      * web 2.0 applications
      * social networking systems / friends networks / social
        self-support groups
      * artistic collaborative projects / net.art projects 
      * software-based collaboration / learning / creation and knowledge
        networks
      * mobile media / media sharing / ubiquitous computing
      * innovative solutions targeting environmental issues 
      * user-generated content & metadata
      * digital storytelling
      * gaming communities
      * digital neighborhoods, digital cities
      * citizen involvement / citizen journalism
      * eRights / eDemocracy / eGovernance
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adam









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Adam Hyde
FLOSS Manuals

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