User:Benjamin Mako Hill/BitFront

Support-gang

Origins : "we just need that smart-alec in the schoolyard who helps everyone else" --cjb

December 19th -- community meeting, GDK, Holt, SJ, CJB, Kim, Walter, JG.

• Pre-meetings, then weekly Sunday meetings started Christmas week.
• In fact, @ OLPC many people were skeptical that this would be a good idea, despite our broad support from foss

  KQ -- do you know what it will take to manage them?

FSW FTW

free software movement : GNU v OS : debian v. ubuntu? too specific.

broad sense of how a movement starts, what the necc. ingredients are, where people & projects gather

ability to communicate, collaborate, share ; permission to be bold, licenses, freedom to work. empowerment, autonomy?, desire not to be a tool of some other vision

it helps to have a goal, a vision of what is desired, what others are working towards

WP

es:wp, wikislices, wikireaders

independent community dev in different countries --> WM Argentina, Wikimania in B.Aires

notes

BMH - implementation of microgobby in js, for obby-wiki : frontend for mwiki for real-time collab. but see: js has contained networking, no socket reps.