[liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-06 Thread Anne Roth
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 t

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread Alex Comninos
Lolwut? On Nov 6, 2012 6:32 PM, "Anne Roth" 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 a

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Either I'm a total idiot or this is the most pretentious website on the Internet NK On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Alex Comninos wrote: > Lolwut? > On Nov 6, 2012 6:32 PM, "Anne Roth" wrote: > >> News about Lorea https://lorea.org/ >> >> ("Lorea is a project to create secure social cyberne

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread micah anderson
Nadim Kobeissi writes: > Either I'm a total idiot or this is the most pretentious website on the > Internet Is this list really consisting of 'lolwut' and the above, plus every once and a while massive drama flameouts? I feel like I am being downgraded against my will. Frankly, both of those re

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread ale fernandez
Hi On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 12:13:04 -0500 Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > Either I'm a total idiot or this is the most pretentious website on the > Internet > > There may be more options than the two you see at the moment.. :) I'm certainly using it like mad since it came out, both bug finding as well as

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread Alex Comninos
On 7 November 2012 19:43, micah anderson wrote: > Frankly, both of those reactions are embarassing. Are you unaware of the > most important tool that has been used for the most recent Spanish > mobilizations, not to mention many occupy groups around the world and > are letting the entire list kno

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread micah anderson
Alex Comninos writes: > On 7 November 2012 19:43, micah anderson wrote: > >> Frankly, both of those reactions are embarassing. Are you unaware of the >> most important tool that has been used for the most recent Spanish >> mobilizations, not to mention many occupy groups around the world and >>

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread ttscanada
Anyone familiar with who needs liberation and what technology they require, is of course aware of lorea, and that includes everyone I know on this list. The new release looks great guys, thanks for all your effort. :-) All the best, Heather On 12-11-07 11:46 AM, ale fernandez wrote: Hi

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread Eva Galperin
"Anyone familiar with who needs liberation and what technology they require, is of course aware of lorea." This statement is baffling and demonstrably untrue. This is certainly the first I've ever heard of Lorea and I have not, to my knowledge, met a single person who uses it. When I go to read

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread ttscanada
Lorea came out of the M15 movement, to fill a need for communication during the first demonstrations in Spain in May 2011 and to link assembleas around the world. It was a patched together solution that went within days to tens of thousands of users (perhaps higher, numbers would require a look

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread Anne Roth
Hi, Micah, thanks for stepping in. I'd like to take the opportunity to address the general atmosphere we create here through this mailing list. It's not the first time it happened to me that I held my breath for a moment trying to understand whether a reply to an email sent to this list was just

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread alex.hache
Dear all as a close person to the developer team, I send some information regarding lorea background. First of all, apologies cause we are not English native, you might find therefore some pieces of our texts pretentious or bad written. On the other side, we are fluent in spanish, catalan, eusk

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread alex.hache
sorry, I forgot in my previous email to refer to FoxGlove license and the collaboration within the GNU social project, i copy paste an email of one of the developers explaining this issue cheers *** One of the novelties in Foxglove is the license. Last February, the Lorea Virtual Assembly decided

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/2012 02:46 PM, ale fernandez wrote: > I'm certainly using it like mad since it came out, both bug > finding as well as actually filling in assemblies - I'm in an > assembly run cooperative and using lorea is really important as a > shared pla

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread Yosem Companys
So is Lorea meant to be a social web alternative? How is it different from Tent.io? On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:07 AM, The Doctor wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/07/2012 02:46 PM, ale fernandez wrote: > > > I'm certainly using it like mad since it came out, both

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread Alejandro Fernandez
Hi Mr doctor who, I never thought I'd meet you in a time and space like this :) On 8 November 2012 19:07, The Doctor wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/07/2012 02:46 PM, ale fernandez wrote: > >> I'm certainly using it like mad since it came out, both bug >> findin

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread Alejandro Fernandez
Hi, On 8 November 2012 23:19, Yosem Companys wrote: > So is Lorea meant to be a social web alternative? How is it different from > Tent.io? > I'd say more a tool for organising, and sharing info but also with social network features from it's elgg-ish beginnings. I've not used tent-io, sorry, b

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2012 05:19 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > So is Lorea meant to be a social web alternative? How is it > different from Tent.io? tent.io is a protocol on top of which applications can be developed. Lorea is a web application (a suite of applicat