Global Square - Federated General Assembly Research
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GLOBAL SQUARE | WIKI.OCCUPY.NET
- Global Square
- http://theglobalsquare.org/
- The Global Square - Frequently Asked Questions
- http://www.facebook.com/notes/the-global-square/the-global-square-frequently-asked-questions/256026334493152
- TheGlobalSquare - Call 4 coders
- http://theglobalsquare.org/call4coders (Dead link as tested on 10:57, 13 July 2012 (PDT).)
- A project to perpetuate the creative and cooperative spirit of the occupations and transform them into lasting forms of social organization.
- Global Square Wiki
- http://wiki.theglobalsquare.org/wiki/Main_Page
- wiki.occupy.net
- http://wiki.occupy.net/wiki/Main_Page
- OccupyMediawiki
- http://occupymediawiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
- OccupyMediawiki is a host for Occupy and related protest wiki communities.
- Federated General Assembly
- http://wiki.occupy.net/wiki/Federated_General_Assembly
“How can #OCCUPY gel into a global movement without sacrificing the decentralized, leaderless model. How, in other words, can we perpetuate the creative and cooperative spirit of the occupations and transform them into lasting forms of social organization — at the global as well as the local level?”
- Facebook Page - The Global Square
- http://www.facebook.com/theglobalsquare
Platforms mentioned in the ROAR and WIRED articles:
- ROAR Article | Main Article Mentions
- N-1/Lorea
- Free self-managed social networks: https://n-1.cc/
- (The technology used, in conjunction with by the 15-M Movement - The Spanish uprising. Elgg is the engine powering N-1/Lorea.)
- N-1 is one of the nodes of a project that aims to create a distributed and federated organization of autonomous entities. We are developing social software for activist networks, we desire visibility but not to give up our privacy and security. You can read more info in English at Lorea.cc and Rhizomatik Labs.
- ROAR Article | Culled From Comments
- Friendica
- http://friendica.com/
- The Friendica Project - We are a handful of part-time developers linking/federating disparate social web platforms and giving people the tools they need to thrive in a post-Facebook world. Join us.
- planetary - "an open conspiracy"
- http://plntry.net/
- Building collaboration space for inter-occupation VoIP / Telephony / Presence R&D including Peoples' PBX, a program to deliver #Occupiers an independently deployable voice communication system.
- See Also: THE SUPERASSEMBLY: A MODEST COUNTER-PROPOSAL TO THE "INTERNET GA"
- http://plntry.net/adv/adv_001.htm
- Diaspora
- https://joindiaspora.com/ | http://diasporaproject.org/
- A free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service.
- identica
- http://identi.ca/
- A social microblogging service similar to Twitter, built on open source tools and open standards.
- echo
- http://echo.to/en
- echo is a joint Open Source project for active citizen participation - available worldwide and for all people. Its comprehensive approach is designed to address a core problem of our time: the political resignation and feelings of powerlessness of the individual.
- Distributed Social Network Test Site
- http://dsn-test.com/ | http://dsn-test.com/dsn-vn/
- So, what is a Distributed Social Network, anyway?
- occupress.org
- http://occupress.org/
- Call to arms -- Citizens Journalists, Photographers, Livestreamers, Artists... "My goal in creating Occupress.org is to bring all of our media together to easily share information from occupations all over the world, as well as quickly broadcast emergency situations and inform the public on which occupations need help the most right now."
- iGlue
- http://www.iglue.com/
- Wikify the Web! With iGlue facts about persons, places, institutions will be just one click away on any web page.
- iGlue is an experimental database with detailed search options, containing entities and information editing tool. It organizes interrelated images, videos, individuals, institutions, objects, websites, geographical locations into cohesive data structures.
- LogiLogi Manta
- http://www.logilogi.org/pub/doc/app/
- LogiLogi Manta is an hypertext web-platform developed for LogiLogi.org by the LogiLogi Foundation. It tries to combine the virtues of good conversations and the written word by providing a form of quick, informal publication and annotation of short texts (so called Logis) via the web.
- Holistic Commons
- http://www.holisticcommons.com/
- Holistic Commons supports you in integrating your holistic, sustainable life with a resource directory for you to find and connect to the people, professionals, places and products in your local community and keep track of your resources all in one place while enhancing community connections.
- SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS - We Own It Together Cooperative Social Network
- http://rockethub.com/projects/1193-we-own-it-together-cooperative-social-network
- we.riseup.net
- https://we.riseup.net/
- This site is powered by Crabgrass, a software libre web application designed for group and network organizing, and tailored to the needs of the global justice movement. The long term goal is to provide the technical tools to facilitate active, confederal, and directly democratic social change networks.
- https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/occupy-dev
- A mailing list for developing software for the occupy movement.
- Computer-network based democracy
- http://dss.secureid.org/stories/storyReader$14
- Consensus Journals
- http://dss.secureid.org/stories/storyReader$19
- Consensus Online Software
- http://projects.occupytechnology.org/projects/consensus-online-software (Project is currently "archived" and appears to not be available online.)
- There have been many proposals for electronic democracy. These proposals have merely replaced paper ballots with electronic mail. The ideal, however, is a discoursive democracy, characterized by direct discussion and negotiation among equals. We show how electronic conferencing makes this possible.
- lorea.org
- https://lorea.org/index.html.en
- Site difficult to access. From article comment: "Through the federation of data can exponentially increase the number of synergies that occur between people and information. Each further contribution strengthens the balance between efficiency and resilience of the community."
- WIRED Article | Main Article Mentions
- Take the Square
- http://takethesquare.net/
- Take The Square was born from the demonstration on May 15, 2011 in Madrid.
- US Day of Rage
- http://usdayofrage.org/ (Site down as of 13 January 2012.)
- microformats
- http://microformats.org/
- Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
NOTE: Other sites the article mentioned are Diaspora and Identica, which the ROAR article also identified (see above). ALSO: The WIRED Article's comments appear to contain much middle school mentality, but not much -- if any -- useful information.
Ongoing News Coverage
- The Global Square: a call for coders to build the platform
- Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square
- The Global Square: simply an ode to the world revolution
- Are we being overshadowed by the big money of the devouring wolves and the peckish pigs? No we are not. Because we are the global square.
