[P2P-F] spanish social network ..

Fri Jun 24 23:38:10 CEST 2011

Hi All,

Thanks for the interest Michel!

I'd be glad to do a shout out for n-1 users and developers wanting to
help or answer questions. I've never written for p2p foundation but
maybe a pirate pad would be a good place to start putting something
together?

Ale

On Friday, 24 June 2011, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> perhaps someone could report on this for the p2p blog?
>
>
> Alejandro <skoria at gmail.com>
>  Jun 23 06:31AM -0700
>         ^ <http://?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#130bcda4d7035656_digest_top>
>
>       Hi All,
>
> I'm just cross posting this message from a few days ago, trying to
> spread awareness of the Lorea and N-1 projects - more explanation
> below! Hope it's of interest, and feel free to get in touch if you'd
> like to know more!
>
> Alejandro
>
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Alejandro <skoria at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     First of all, I think this is a great idea, and I wish I could go
> or
>     send someone from this project!
>
>     I'd like to invite you all to join one of the various Lorea seeds
> you
>     can find at http://lorea.cc/
>
>     To explain this cryptic language, Lorea means "Flower" in Basque,
> and
>     it is a set of plugins for the php based open source social
> network
>     Elgg. They extend it alongside, and beyond the aims of Diaspora,
>     following the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari.
>
>     It's main use is currently as the N-1 network ( https://n-1.cc/ )
> -
>     one of the coordination tools that is currently being used
> (besides
>     regular online tools like twitter and facebook), by the
> assemblarian
>     #15m movement based in Spain and beyond. It had been active for
> around
>     a year, and many of the organisations that sprang to help out when
>     word spread that the camps had started, were already using Lorea
> based
>     networks as a shared non commercial space.
>
>     It provides, as a basic set of services, chat, piratepads, a task
>     system forums, wikis, groups, and ways to upload and link to
> different
>     media, sharing it all on an internal microblogging wire which is
> now
>     Ostatus enabled.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/rhizomatik
>
>     There are various different lorea "seeds" - as in, implemented
> social
>     network "confederates". Each one is a fully functional social
> network
>     in many ways. The project comes from Sevilla mostly, but also now
> is
>     being developed across the rest of Spain, and beyond. Together all
>     these things provide ways to federate information between
> different
>     social networks.
>
>     There is now a moving "Hackaton" - a hacking marathon centred on
>     improving N-1 - which saw an increase of about 10000 members in a
>     week, and is growing rapidly. The hackaton just left Madrid, and
> has
>     reached Barcelona, where it's taking place at the Barcelona
>     Hackerspace, next stop Valencia later this week. The hackaton is
> based
>     around creating a participative democracy toolkit, so that the
> various
>     assembly acts being posted online can be shared in more
> intelligent
>     ways, perhaps allowing different ways to show who voted for each
>     proposal in any one assembly, or showing what different opinions
> are
>     from one area to another.
>
>     The participative democracy assemblies of all the city camps,
> which
>     have now spread to the local neighbourhoods or "barrios" are run
>     according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making#Hand_signals
>
>     For each proposal brought to an assembly, there is twinkling of
> hands
>     from the people who approve, followed by barred hands from those
> who
>     disapprove, and to keep things moving when the chatter gets going,
>     hands turn in a revolving to politely move things along.
>
>     I think this all provides a rich experimental ground for
> development -
>     there are many things we could be using or are in development,
> like
>     geolocation, an RDF mapping for the democracy data, scalable high
>     performance location awareness, there's room for everyone! :)
>
>     Personally I would love to do something to do with mapping
> resource
>     transactions - towards participative aspects to an economy as
> well.
>     The 15m movement is to me a mass movement to reconsider democracy
> and
>     see if we can get closer to a more direct, participative version
> of
>     it. In doing it, there are lots of different ideas, that sometimes
>     even disagree with each other. I think this is healthy, and I hope
>     there will be interest from people here in starting new seeds, and
>     working with us both in activism towards figuring out what "post
>     capitalism" is and in making Lorea networks all the more open,
>     positive ways to coordinate spontaneous social movements.
>
>     Here is an interview with one of the developers on the Ostatus
> aspect:
> http://ostatus.org/2010/08/05/ostatus-interview-pablo-martin
>
>     Thanks to all who are helping with this conference!
>
>     Ale Fernandez
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