User:Benjamin Mako Hill/BitFront

OLPC communities

Anecdote : 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?

Initially US, now extending to L. America, with F.Libre in Peru and olpc-sur, attracting more es-speakers : again, many without their own XO (and some not wanting one)

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FSW FTW

Two major types of communities,

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. See principles/lessons.

it all starts with a shared goal and vision

Ubuntu exs : forums, locos.

Wikipedia

origins, concept & multilingual community ---> self-organization

independent community dev in different countries

community-run events (wikimanias, Wikipedia University)

locally-driven chapter development [too specific : anyone who feels they are an independent group can form]

principles, lessons

recognition.

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

crowding out : separate communities of practice, chilling effects? [not presented negatively]

repeating: have a goal, a utopian/ideal vision of what is desired, what others are working towards

OLPC communities

starting with a simple ideal : olpc pre-g1g1 --- 1000x of people contributing to a project they thought they would never benefit from. gives one faith in people.

Software & tools

OS, sugar : fedora, debian, openwrt
Activities, git committers : ?
Trac users : 
User communities (they know what they want better than groups of experts) :

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Local chapters & communication

Wiki editors
L10n.
Blogs, news sources
Countries & regions

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.