[FM Discuss] Open source social media manual?

Fri Feb 3 12:16:52 PST 2012

Hi,

I started to check different technologies out and it becomes quite
complicated since the definition of social media is so wide it would
include things like IRC, Booki as well as Identi.ca and Diaspora.

There are several open source projects to check out, such as the
BuddyPress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddyPress

Regards
Tomi

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Mike McCallister <workingwriter at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> In stores now: 2nd Edition of "WordPress in Depth" (with Bud Smith)
> Notes from the Metaverse: http://metaverse.wordpress.com
>
>
>
> 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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>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Adam Hyde
>> >> Founder, FLOSS Manuals
>> >> Project Manager, Booki
>> >> Book Sprint Facilitator
>> >> mobile :+ 49 177 4935122
>> >> identi.ca : @eset
>> >> booki.flossmanuals.net : @adam
>> >>
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>> >> http://www.booki.cc
>> >> http://www.booksprints.net
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>> > Tomi Toivio
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