[P2P-F] Fwd: Contact: Ongoing Projects

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Douglas Rushkoff <info at contactcon.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:17 AM
Subject: Contact: Ongoing Projects
To: Michel <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


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Photo: Grant Potter

Dear Contacters,

Thanks for making October 20 a great success. Contact was most definitely
established, and together we marked a moment in our collective history. As
participants, sponsors, facilitators, occupiers, technologists, artists,
activists, educators, librarians, students, and more, we came together to
declare and release the greater potential of our networks to make a better
world. Your collaboration and spirit humbled me greatly.

Of course, Contact was never about itself but about you and your
initiatives. So it is with great pleasure that I share with you some of how
we and our colleagues are moving forward with the ideas and projects we
created together, as well as a little bit more about the Bazaar winners.

Remember, to stay in touch with people please consider joining the
GoogleGroup we have set up,
http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=e255df2108&e=be9ef15c93>
.

Also, as Contact participants you have the ability to create an IndieGogo
campaign for free by using the code “socialweek.” Finally, if you’re
particularly interested in “next net” initiatives, the
http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=f201dd9655&e=be9ef15c93>list
has been going strong for a few months now.

Here are the four projects we committed to seeing happen, and how to take
part:

 *Upgrading Democracy* -Representation is a fundamental concept of our
governance, but is encoded in the technology of the 18th century. The modern
networked world enables a truer form of representation known variously under
the names Dynamic Democracy, Liquid Democracy, and Delegable Proxy voting.
This is an effort to use the net to enact these new forms of democracy. If
you want to add your name to the email list to receive updates on the
progress of this project go to
http://upgradedemocracy.org/<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=c8580f854b&e=be9ef15c93>
For the Upgrading Democracy conference in San Francisco spring 2012,
contact Micah Daigle at micahdaigle at gmail.com. For the Democracy Hackathon
in Virginia, April 28 to May 5, 2012, contact Keenan Dakota at
keenan at twinoaks.org. Session notes
athttp://forum.contactcon.com/discussion/23/upgrading-democracy<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=ee61456960&e=be9ef15c93>
.

 *Local Foodsharing platform* -  Local food systems need tools that can help
match needs (land, labor, tools, transportation, and more) to available
resources without money acting as a barrier. Many resource-matching tools
already exist. The Food MatchIt Project will identify and adapt them to
specifically support the food space in a barter context. Join us and help:
identify local food matching needs, inventory existing matching tools, and
adapt existing tools (or maybe even build some new ones) in coordinated
makeathons. To learn more and collaborate, sign up at http://FoodMatchIt.com
<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=c4f867a62d&e=be9ef15c93>

 *“Kick-Stopper” - Crowdsourced Unfunding -* Working together in a
coordinated debt strike/divestment campaign we can bring the banks back
under democratic control and give teeth to the concrete demands that are
being hammered out at GA’s and working groups around the country and the
world. The goal of this project is to create a mechanism for organizing and
coordinating large scale debt strike and divestment campaigns. The project
is explained here:
http://forum.contactcon.com/discussion/33/kick-stopper#Item_1<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=f6ffcba15c&e=be9ef15c93>

Join or learn more here:
http://groups.google.com/group/debt-strike-kick-stopper<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=c6740900e0&e=be9ef15c93>

 *Collaboration Matchmaking Application *- A collaboration matchmaking
service bringing artists and geeks together with other sectors. This service
aims to match one’s needs with the skills of the people who will openly
collaborate to provide them. More information is here:
http://technoevangelist.net/collaboration-matchmaking-service/<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=1ad7ea8c62&e=be9ef15c93>

*Online General Assembly *- This group, first convened by Dan Sieradski,
folded itself into the Upgrade Democracy group. But it has its own mandate:
to create an online version of the General Assembly technique for consensus
building. Read about the genesis of this idea in this Contact Forum:
http://forum.contactcon.com/discussion/24/online-general-assembly-building-a-platform-for-real-time-consensus-based-meetings<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=62e99fd7ae&e=be9ef15c93>
To join the effort, email
participate at consenter.org or join the list
http://groups.google.com/group/consenter<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=b104c88f56&e=be9ef15c93>

Meanwhile, MetaCurrency<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=3fd0740927&e=be9ef15c93>,
Community Forge<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=daacca415b&e=be9ef15c93>and
other Contact participants re-thinking currency will be leading a
Reimagining Money track at Occupy Wall Street today from 10am to 7pm. The
Protest Currency Design competition is also completed, and results posted
here:  http://moneyart.biz/ows/<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=ae3e850f74&e=be9ef15c93>


*The Contact Bazaar Awards, sponsored by Pepsi. *

Photo: Steven Brewer

At the end of the day, Reverend Billy officially blessed each of our three
Bazaar Award winners as they were announced. The projects each received
$10,000 from Pepsi, deposited as the seed money for free campaigns on
IndieGogo. Winners were chosen by a team of judges selected from among the
participants.

Runners up included: The Library Farm, New Hive, Meshkit, GiftFlow,
Commotion, Tether, and Digital City Mechanics. The three winners were:

*Fayetteville Free Library Fab Lab*
The Fayetteville Free Library aims to be the first library in the United
States to build a free, public access Fab Lab. At the foundation of
theFFL's Fab Lab<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=b0ab1b6c49&e=be9ef15c93>will
be aMakerBot Thing-o-Matic<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=15557a2a6a&e=be9ef15c93>3D
printer, central to the greater vision of encouraging local
innovation,
collaboration and education. Lauren Britton Smedley, who has spearheaded
this effort, said “the FFL is excited to provide our community with free and
open access to this technology.  We are building a replicable model with the
hope that other libraries around the country will be able to follow and
learn from our experience.  It was such a thrill to participate at the
Contact Conference, it was truly an amazing and inspiring day."


*Free Network Foundation*
The Free Network
Foundation<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=e5e09c372a&e=be9ef15c93>is
an organization whose purpose is to steward the creation of a
censorship-proof, disruption-resistant, global peer-to-peer network which is
fully owned and operated by its participants. They managed to get two
prototype FreedomTowers up and running in time for Contact - one at Occupy
Austin, the other here at Occupy Wall Street in Liberty Square. The towers
are providing Internet access to the occupiers, and will be used to
establish an occupation-to-occupation Virtual Private Network. Next steps
for the FNF, according to its founder, Isaac Wilder, include continuing to
build out their burgeoning Wide Area Network,
applying to the American Registry for Internet Numbers for status as an
Autonomous System, iterating and improving the design of FreedomTowers, and
working with the FreedomBox project to build FreedomNode, a mesh-enabled
FreedomBox capable of opportunistically engaging in communications that are
materially peer-to-peer.

*FreedomBox Foundation*
FreedomBox<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=c01e390596&e=be9ef15c93>is
a personal server running a free software operating system and free
applications, designed to create and preserve personal privacy by providing
a secure platform upon which federated social networks can be constructed.
“Free communities require free communication.  Once we have that, no problem
is beyond our ability to cooperate toward a solution,” says FreedomBox’s
Executive Director, James Vasile.

Watch for links to these projects on IndieGoGo in the next few days.

Thanks from all of us to Pepsi for sponsoring Contact’s Bazaar Awards.

*Stay in Contact*

Video from some of the morning provocations is being posted to
http://www.youtube.com/contactsummit
 and photos of the day are going up
<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=dfe31a0a2f&e=be9ef15c93>here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1753586@N25/  Please feel free to add your own.
<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=f77fbc3872&e=be9ef15c93>

To upload your own media (video clips, audio, and imagery) to our
collaborative video editing project (in order to mashup and export your own
version of Contact), create a free account on WeVideo, then send an email
with your account username to venessa at contactcon.com, and she'll add you to
the project:
http://www.wevideo.com/sign-up?marketplaceId=16409042&languageId=2&method=selfRegistrationForm&invitationId=zILZOIuZWXAZ1Mp/PHD8MnLwboUZCa2xlxgnEiGJ+kfqV7x3l66KnTQ8j1zVALlg<http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=81ebd0db9f&e=be9ef15c93>


And again, thanks to everyone for choosing make Contact. To stay in touch
with Contact - to keep the spirit of that day alive - please stay in touch
with each other or one or more of the projects you conceived and developed.
Contact was just an initiation. You are it.


All my best,


Douglas Rushkoff
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