<span style="font-weight: bold;">perhaps someone could report on this for the p2p blog?<br><br><br>Alejandro <<a href="mailto:skoria@gmail.com" target="_blank">skoria@gmail.com</a>></span>
Jun 23 06:31AM -0700
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Hi All,<br>
<br>
I'm just cross posting this message from a few days ago, trying to<br>
spread awareness of the Lorea and N-1 projects - more explanation<br>
below! Hope it's of interest, and feel free to get in touch if you'd<br>
like to know more!<br>
<br>
Alejandro<br>
<br>
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Alejandro <<a href="mailto:skoria@gmail.com" target="_blank">skoria@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
First of all, I think this is a great idea, and I wish I could go<br>
or<br>
send someone from this project!<br>
<br>
I'd like to invite you all to join one of the various Lorea seeds<br>
you<br>
can find at <a href="http://lorea.cc/" target="_blank">http://lorea.cc/</a><br>
<br>
To explain this cryptic language, Lorea means "Flower" in Basque,<br>
and<br>
it is a set of plugins for the php based open source social<br>
network<br>
Elgg. They extend it alongside, and beyond the aims of Diaspora,<br>
following the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari.<br>
<br>
It's main use is currently as the N-1 network ( <a href="https://n-1.cc/" target="_blank">https://n-1.cc/</a> )<br>
-<br>
one of the coordination tools that is currently being used<br>
(besides<br>
regular online tools like twitter and facebook), by the<br>
assemblarian<br>
#15m movement based in Spain and beyond. It had been active for<br>
around<br>
a year, and many of the organisations that sprang to help out when<br>
word spread that the camps had started, were already using Lorea<br>
based<br>
networks as a shared non commercial space.<br>
<br>
It provides, as a basic set of services, chat, piratepads, a task<br>
system forums, wikis, groups, and ways to upload and link to<br>
different<br>
media, sharing it all on an internal microblogging wire which is<br>
now<br>
Ostatus enabled.<br>
<br><a href="https://bitbucket.org/rhizomatik" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/rhizomatik</a><br>
<br>
There are various different lorea "seeds" - as in, implemented<br>
social<br>
network "confederates". Each one is a fully functional social<br>
network<br>
in many ways. The project comes from Sevilla mostly, but also now<br>
is<br>
being developed across the rest of Spain, and beyond. Together all<br>
these things provide ways to federate information between<br>
different<br>
social networks.<br>
<br>
There is now a moving "Hackaton" - a hacking marathon centred on<br>
improving N-1 - which saw an increase of about 10000 members in a<br>
week, and is growing rapidly. The hackaton just left Madrid, and<br>
has<br>
reached Barcelona, where it's taking place at the Barcelona<br>
Hackerspace, next stop Valencia later this week. The hackaton is<br>
based<br>
around creating a participative democracy toolkit, so that the<br>
various<br>
assembly acts being posted online can be shared in more<br>
intelligent<br>
ways, perhaps allowing different ways to show who voted for each<br>
proposal in any one assembly, or showing what different opinions<br>
are<br>
from one area to another.<br>
<br>
The participative democracy assemblies of all the city camps,<br>
which<br>
have now spread to the local neighbourhoods or "barrios" are run<br>
according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making#Hand_signals" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making#Hand_signals</a><br>
<br>
For each proposal brought to an assembly, there is twinkling of<br>
hands<br>
from the people who approve, followed by barred hands from those<br>
who<br>
disapprove, and to keep things moving when the chatter gets going,<br>
hands turn in a revolving to politely move things along.<br>
<br>
I think this all provides a rich experimental ground for<br>
development -<br>
there are many things we could be using or are in development,<br>
like<br>
geolocation, an RDF mapping for the democracy data, scalable high<br>
performance location awareness, there's room for everyone! :)<br>
<br>
Personally I would love to do something to do with mapping<br>
resource<br>
transactions - towards participative aspects to an economy as<br>
well.<br>
The 15m movement is to me a mass movement to reconsider democracy<br>
and<br>
see if we can get closer to a more direct, participative version<br>
of<br>
it. In doing it, there are lots of different ideas, that sometimes<br>
even disagree with each other. I think this is healthy, and I hope<br>
there will be interest from people here in starting new seeds, and<br>
working with us both in activism towards figuring out what "post<br>
capitalism" is and in making Lorea networks all the more open,<br>
positive ways to coordinate spontaneous social movements.<br>
<br>
Here is an interview with one of the developers on the Ostatus<br>
aspect:<br><a href="http://ostatus.org/2010/08/05/ostatus-interview-pablo-martin" target="_blank">http://ostatus.org/2010/08/05/ostatus-interview-pablo-martin</a><br>
<br>
Thanks to all who are helping with this conference!<br>
<br>
Ale Fernandez<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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