An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views
Published Date 10/17/17 4:59 PM
This is a quite #reboot of the #openweb going on. This #4opens project has nearly 1 million users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) It’s one of the use it or lose it moments for life outside #failbook. It would be a bad time for progressive funders to start to prop up the #dotcons world if we don’t try to change direction, sad outcome is invertible.
A funding application to set up/boot up both an “NGO” and an “Activism” instance of Mastodon. Each could have different “terms of service” but would both talk to each other and the wider #AP networks. It’s time and not a #dotcons and works #OMN
Would need a crew of 3 people part-time for 6 months roll out then 6 months sustaining after this year the project should be self-sustaining due to low running costs. Can use patron and occasional donation drives.
Crew
Hamish – lead fixer and Activist outreach
Sys admin – to set up the servers and keep them running
NGO Outreach – to outreach to NGO’s and get them to buy into the #openweb project.
Funding
5-7K funding for the first year. From Lush and Edgefund
This would mostly be part-time wages, with some server and outreach costs. A monthly donation would go to the development https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
The project would be organised on Github as a #4opens project as a part of an open media network.
Published Date 10/7/17 6:07 PM
Open data – the site has RSS output and the content licence is CC so a open
Open source – hard to tell what the site is runing but likly open source so a open for now
Open “industrial” standards – they support RSS, but thats about it so half a open
Open process – Process is opaque (likely open internaly) Thats ½ a open
Bronze 2 opens
Silver 3 opens
Gold 4 opens
corporatewatch is a “silver” 4opens project depending on some clarification.
Published Date 10/6/17 1:04 PM
Open data – the site has a RSS feed but is copyright so 1/2 of a open
Open source – its wordpress kinda open 1/2
Open “industrial” standards – they do not easely support RSS podcasts and most media is corp hosted so 1/2 a open
Open process – Process is opaque.
Bronze 2 opens
Silver 3 opens
Gold 4 opens
realmedia is a Bronze #4opens project, need clarification.
Published Date 10/6/17 12:30 PM
Open data – the site has a RSS feed, no copyright/CC notice on site so ½ of a open till clarifyed
Open source – hard to tell if the code base is opensource so no open for now.
Open “industrial” standards – they support RSS and podcasts and all media is openstandered so a open
Open process – Process is opaque to ouytisders but likly relativly open to insiders so 1/2 open maybe.
Bronze 2 opens
Silver 3 opens
Gold 4 opens
Democracynow is a Bronze #4opens project.
Published Date 9/27/17 11:41 AM
Open data – the site has a RSS feed, but contet copyright so ½ of a open
Open source – wordpress so a open
Open “industrial” standards – Well WordPress is kinda a standard, they support RSS but no podcasts and all media on closed corporate accounts so ½ a open
Open process – Process is opaque (likely closed) for content. No open
Bronze 2 opens
Silver 3 opens
Gold 4 opens
thecanary is Bronze #4opens project.
Published Date 9/26/17 12:05 PM
Open data – the site has RSS output and a API running on a custom version of wordpress (that is on github) so it kinda has opendata, would need clarification to confirm. ½ a open for now.
Open source – Yep the site is opensource and it up on github, the content licensing is not not stated so ½ a open till clarification.
Open “industrial” standards – Well wordpress is kinda a standard, they support RSS, podcasting and seam to have a open API. Will give them a open.
Open process – Process is opaque (likely closed) for content but the code is on Github for tech. That ½ a open
Bronze 2 opens
Silver 3 opens
Gold 4 opens
Novaramedia is a “bronze or silver” 4opens project depending on clarification.
Published Date 9/25/17 5:49 PM
Open data – YES Can I save my data?
Yes, some of it! It‘s under Preferences->Data export
Open source – YES
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GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
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Version 3, 19 November 2007 |
Open “industrial” standards – YES We are using the OStatus suite of protocols:
Webfinger for user-on-domain lookup
Atom feeds with ActivityStreams, Portable Contacts, Threads extensions for the actual content
PubSubHubbub for subscribing to Atom feeds
Salmon for delivering certain items from the Atom feeds to interested parties such as the mentioned user, author of the status being replied to, person being followed, etc
Open process – YES its organised in a open way on Github
Bronze 2 opens
Silver 3 opens
Gold 4 opens
Mastodon is a “gold” 4opens project.
Published Date 9/25/17 5:03 PM
Open data – A small YES and many many NO’s the is a obscured link were you can download a lot of data that facebook holds about you it’s a SMALL YES. But all the interlinking and meta data that is used is hidden and for sale to the higist bidders, a BIG NO.
Open source – NO open licences for the data, its privatised. Some of the backed projects are opensource but not in a really socially useful way – the big project is CLOSED SOURCE.
Open “industrial” standards – they use um and pervert um to CLOSED
Open process – this is very much CLOSED
So 1/4 of a open for data and 1/4 of a open for source that make 1/2 a open.
Bronze 2 opens
Silver 3 opens
Gold 4 opens
Facebook is not a 4opens project.
Published Date 9/25/17 4:24 PM
Thinking about #Uber and the dysfunction of #Facebook.
It’s time to #reboot many parts of the #openweb With the “visibility” of the failing of #dotcons such as #failbook privacy/obscured agronomic control of you, #uber and the race to the bottom culture.
The will be a plausible “class” of people who come up with convincing sounding solutions, these #fashionista are not part of any solution and are a clear and historical core to our failers in the past.
I understand it’s hard to see the differences of tech projects, what is worth supporting and what not. We have issues from two different directions that have to at least a little understood to have a hope of supporting projects that have the possibility to be part of a real LINKING alt.
* #fashionista thinking/working
* the #geekprobelm
These are opposite side of the same coin.
“A river that needs crossing – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over complexity”
A good first step solution to both is the #4opens
They will dis-empower the worst of the #fashionista thinking by shining light on their actions and mediate to a better outcome the “closing push” of the #geekproblem by keeping the LINKING in place.
Simple and sweet, a first step solution in a hashtag 😉
