[FM Discuss] Open source social media manual?

[Mike McCallister]

I also think this is a terrific idea, but don't know how much I can help,
though like Helen, I'm always happy to copy-edit material.

I would also think folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation would be
interested in such a project. Lawrence Lessig too.

Mike McCallister
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jumping in late but I love this idea. I immediately thought of "how
> could you do the ideas in my book with all open source tools?" It's
> more about the people and processes than tools, of course, but open
> tools match better with certain organizations inherent beliefs. Happy
> to jump in and help, be sure to post the TOC when you get it started.
>
> Anne
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Tomi Toivio <tomi at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > I will try to send a draft TOC approximately 48 hours from now. ;)
> >
> >
> > 2012/2/2 adam <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> >>
> >> i think we could do this just remotely and voluntarily. then we dont
> need
> >> to mess with budgets and things, we just see who wants to jump in and
> get
> >> going...if you start a ToC Tomi I would be happy to jump in...maybe we
> can
> >> also experiment using the messaging features in booki since this would
> also
> >> reflect the processes we are discussing
> >>
> >>
> >> adam
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/01/2012 11:28 PM, Anne GOLDENBERG wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I know a quebec based organisation
> >>> http://www.koumbit.org/en
> >>> and a us based one
> >>> https://riseup.net/en
> >>> (and a few activist there)
> >>> who would probably be interested in participating.
> >>>
> >>> that being said,
> >>> if we want to do that
> >>> I guess we also want to gather a budget
> >>> to pay the contributors
> >>> and to pay a facilitator,
> >>> like we like to do at FlossManuals
> >>> :-)
> >>> anne
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2012/2/1 Tomi Toivio<tomi at flossmanuals.net>
> >>>
> >>>> a but in the mind of how to bypass internet censorship
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (but here... how to by pass internet bigbrotherhood :-) )
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Funny you mentioned that, since some Teletubby-level bigbrotherism has
> >>>> risen again. Internet Censorship has been implemented in Finland
> again.
> >>>>
> >>>> The Pirate Bay is censored. I heard rumours a lot of the stuff on
> Pirate
> >>>> Bay actually wasn't licensed with CC-BY-SA or GPL, so I don't feel
> like
> >>>> there is a high level of political or economic oppression, but
> internet
> >>>> censorship tends to spread according to the random whims of nameless
> >>>> bureaucrats and could pretty soon include even FLOSS Manuals, since it
> >>>> contains purely criminal information like the How to Bypass Intenet
> >>>> Censorship manual. Sites critical of internet censorship were censored
> >>>> when
> >>>> we had the last round of censorship a few years ago.
> >>>>
> >>>> I should contact some organizations and see if they are actually
> willing
> >>>> to contribute to this.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Tomi
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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