I've just returned from Recent Changes Camp 2007 (Portland) http://2007.recentchangescamp.org/
Recent Changes takes it's name from Wiki tool and takes it's inspiration from Wiki Culture Among the many developments of this Open Space format event is the effort to establish an Open Guild. See the wiki: http://www.oguild.org Under this rubric there is opportunity for a place-based node for Portland as well as a more general virtual community and dreams of a network of such place-centered nodes. Open Source technologists/developers are a core constituency, but there was some care in framing the idea as being about an Open movement, rather than just Open Source. One project being undertaken under the banner of the Open Guild is SourceTree (in early stage of development) ... a repository for managing source code from the frame of increasing ease and likelihood of collaboration among projects and conservation of code. Think "object registry" with multiple tools for filtering and visualizing relationships, including genealogy and families of code. The concept evolved from the notion that tools like sourceforge ought to reflect more of the ethos of the Open Movement in their design. This will make Strategic Roadmapping among code projects more possible. (Find the missing API.) My personal commitments/interests are more in the direction of Open Source tools for NPOs and Civicl Society - with great affinity for the notion of Social Source as a subset of Open Source (See paper by Jonathan Peizer), so I feel compelled to mention that Aspiration Tech is convening an event down in Oakland later in February. (Wish I could be there!) http://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit Montreal is holding it's own event (May 18-20) inspired by the first RCC, called RoCoCo. From: http://www.rocococamp.info/ RoCoCo is a non-recursive acronym, for "Rencontres sur la Collaboration, la Créativité et l'Autogestion" (Meetings on Collaboration, Creativity and Self-Management.) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Director, CTCNet Chicago Chapter Co-Founder, Chicago Digital Access Alliance Co-Chair, Illinois Community Technology Coalition President, Association For Community Networking Support the efforts of the Chicago Digital Access Alliance: http://www.digitalaccessalliance.org _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
