On 02/10/15 04:03 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > > Furtherfield HQ (first think Google and then try to imagine the > opposite)
An open-ended and non-enclosed structure with no basketball courts or free candy vending machines? > Two issues > 1) the cost and time associated with strategising, consulting, > designing, planning and remunerating all involved, for their efforts > while: future-proofing community infrastructure, caring for the > archive/database. We have had some really very good and generous support > from a number of people to help us understand what the process might be, > but the work still needs doing...and all risks mitigated! > > 2) connected to the above - maintaining the connections we all have, > while inviting in new and diverse (in age, background, device-loyalty, > ethnicity) people. There are a few approaches, with different affordances and costs (economic and political). 1. Yay Walled Gardens! Use Medium for publishing articles, hosted Discourse for mail/boards, and Slack for co-ordination/chat. Cost: 100USD/month plus your soul. Demographic: Current. 2. All Zuck All The Time Use Facebook Notes for publishing articles, Facebook pages for discussion, and Facebook messaging for co-ordination/chat. Cost: Zero, plus the souls of all humanity. Demographic: Previous. 3. Current Free Software Use Jekyll for publishing (mediated via GitLabs or at a pinch GitHub) [TODO: comment system], self-hosted Discourse or Groupserver for mail/boards, and an existing GNU social install or irc for co-ord/chat. Cost: As much as hosting costs. Demographic: current. 4. Hosted Free Software Use Wordpress for publishing, see if lurk.org will host Netbehaviour on their Groupserver install, and use an existing GNU social install or irc for co-ord/chat. Cost: As much as the services cost, look for donations. Demographic: Almost current. For any self-hosted or donated services, stick them behind Cloudflare. Good for DDOS and ssl, bad for centralization. Choice of platform is to a degree choice of audience, cultural context and politics. Not in a technologically deterministic sense but in the sense that different book publishers or record labels are. Change the system, exploit the system, or buck the system? - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
