Lolwut? On Nov 6, 2012 6:32 PM, "Anne Roth" <annal...@riseup.net> wrote:
> News about Lorea https://lorea.org/ > > ("Lorea is a project to create secure social cybernetic systems, in > which a network of humans will become simultaneously represented on a > virtual shared world. > > Its aim is to create a distributed and federated nodal organization of > entities with no geophysical territory, interlacing their multiple > relationships through binary codes and languages.") > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove > Datum: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:12:17 +0100 > Von: spideralex <spidera...@riseup.net> > > > *The new distribution of Lorea is called Foxglove: Social networks of > the people and for the people!* > > As part of the ACT! 2012 <https://lorea.org/assets/act2012>, Lorea > social networks have migrated to a new version called Foxglove based on > the version 1.8 of Elgg free software <http://elgg.org/>. This new > distribution has several improvements regarding the design, usability > and stability of the networks and offer also new tools (the full list > can be viewed here > <https://n-1.cc/pages/view/1505323/lorea-new-distribution-foxglove>). > > Among them there is a new module that allows you to design assemblies > agendas collectively, keeping minutes and highlighting decisions and > previous consensus. It also enables decision making either by majority > or by consensus, with the option of blocking decisions and modifying > proposals for decision. This wide variety of options is intended to suit > the various decision making processes of groups engaged with > assamblearism, thus preventing the software of imposing its criteria > above collective practices. Other new options are customizing the > working environment, search box for groups contents, new images > galleries, improvements of the Etherpads (collaborative writing in real > time) and the integration between fora and mailing lists (persons not > registered inside the networks will be now able to subscribe to groups > mailing list). > > During the course of this November, Lorea's fairies will work into > refining the migration and complementing the documentation such as the > manuals in order to help people become familiar with the new version. It > should also be kept in mind that Lorea are self-organized networks where > all its inhabitants can engage with their development and gardening. > > Lorea calls for collaboration in this joint project, first by being > patient with the potential errors that might occur occasionally during > the migration process, secondly, by testing the tool, reporting > shortcomings and making suggestions to keep improving (bugs can be > reported here <https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/929536/testers-elgg-18/>) and in > third place by making diffusion of this new version (either by > publishing this news and/or giving talks and workshops). Donations are > also logically welcomed <https://n-1.cc/pages/view/14888/>. > > *About Lorea* > > Lorea means "flower" in Euskera and uses the metaphor of seeds to refer > to each ones of its networks' planted in an experimental field federated ". > > The project stems from an informal group of people concerned about > security and privacy on the social web, providing from the field of free > software and technological activism. It was launched during the 2009 > Hackmeeting <http://sindominio.net/hackmeeting/index.php?title=Portada>, > the annual gathering of hackers in the Spanish State. There two social > networks Digital Free Art and N-1 <https://n-1.cc/> converged and > decided to join forces to develop further social free, secure, federated > and self-managed social networks. > > ACT! 2012 is an action derivatived from the Barcelona Consensus > performed by an active citizenship, GLOBAL, simultaneously and with an > effective PARTICULAR result looking for social, political, economic > palpable transformation. For this purpose different organizations / > networks / groups have supported as ACT! 2012 Lorea and another movement > (Ekta Parishad). The Nova-organization Social Innovation (driving > Consensus Barcelona) has awarded 4,000 Euros each organization to carry > out its actions. Thanks to the support you > gave us the Lorea community have used this incentive to free programmers > who developed the project. Also with ACT!, During days 27 to 2 > September, we held a Hacktahon Lorea to outline the development of > assemblies, modules, feedback and suggestions and work together on > migration. > > N-1.cc, Cooperativa.ecoxarxes.cat and Enekenbat.cc are already migrated, > rest will follow soon > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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