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*Contact: Samer Hassan [samer at ourproject dot org]<br> | *Contact: Samer Hassan [samer at ourproject dot org]<br> | ||
*Team | *Team: Bastien Guerry, Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado, Samer Hassan [<a href="http://comunes.org">Comunes collective</a>]<br> | ||
*Proposed 'space' or theme: unknown<br> | *Proposed 'space' or theme: unknown<br> | ||
*Status: unknown <br> | *Status: unknown <br> | ||
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* Anyone interested in how initiatives/collectives actually work (governance, commitments, etc.) | * Anyone interested in how initiatives/collectives actually work (governance, commitments, etc.) | ||
* Anyone wanting to promote the Commons and alternative ways of organisation/production among non-geek communities | * Anyone wanting to promote the Commons and alternative ways of organisation/production among non-geek communities | ||
* Anyone interested in overlapping initiative networks, open semantic web, Creative Commons principles and icons/labels | * Anyone interested in overlapping initiative networks, open semantic web, Creative Commons principles and icons/labels/badges | ||
* | * NGO runners and volunteers; hackers and developers; Creative Commoners; social movement participants; those interested in showing a fancy sticker of their initiative | ||
* Hoping for constant flow of participants | * Hoping for constant flow of participants | ||
* Time: 1 hours, 2 hours... flexible | * Time: 1 hours, 2 hours, more... flexible | ||
===What will they do when they get there? (activities)=== | ===What will they do when they get there? (activities)=== | ||
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===Additional background and context=== | ===Additional background and context=== | ||
Here and there we see small initiatives promoting the Commons in different fields (open web, OER, free culture, or seeds). However, only a few have reached critical mass and thus can be well-known by different communities, while the majority are still in their corner, ignored by the mainstream. Move Commons (MC) is a weird idea which aims to boost the visibility and diffusion of such initiatives, and to "draw" the network among related initiatives/collectives across the world, allowing mutual discovery and facilitating the reach of critical mass for each field. Besides, any newcomer could easily understand the collective approach in their website, and/or discover collectives matching their field/location/interests in movecommons.org. | Here and there we see small initiatives promoting the Commons in different fields (open web, OER, free culture, or seeds). However, only a few have reached critical mass and thus can be well-known by different communities, while the majority are still in their corner, ignored by the mainstream. Move Commons (MC) is a weird idea which aims to boost the visibility and diffusion of such initiatives, and to "draw" the network among related initiatives/collectives across the world, allowing mutual discovery and facilitating the reach of critical mass for each field. Besides, any newcomer could easily understand the collective approach in their website, and/or discover collectives matching their field/location/interests in <a href="http://movecommons.org">movecommons.org</a>. | ||
MC follows the same mechanics as Creative Commons (CC) tags cultural works, providing a standard, user-friendly, bottom-up, self-labelling system for each collective/initiative, with four meaningful labels/icons, together with a complementary set of tags (keywords) and additional information to provide further classification (web address, geographical location...). Everything supported by a semantic web layer to allow searches such as, for instance: «which initiatives exist in Beirut that are a Grassroots organisation, Non-Profit, using Creative Commons, related to "alternative education" and "teen-agers"» (or other principles, keywords and places). The four principles/icons that each initiative can show and advertise that they are committed to are: Non-Profit/For-Profit; Reproducible/Exclusive; Grassroots/Representative; Reinforcing the Commons/Other Aims. | MC follows the same mechanics as Creative Commons (CC) tags cultural works, providing a standard, user-friendly, bottom-up, self-labelling system for each collective/initiative, with four meaningful labels/icons, together with a complementary set of tags (keywords) and additional information to provide further classification (web address, geographical location...). Everything supported by a semantic web layer to allow searches such as, for instance: «which initiatives exist in Beirut that are a Grassroots organisation, Non-Profit, using Creative Commons, related to "alternative education" and "teen-agers"» (or other principles, keywords and places). The four principles/icons that each initiative can show and advertise that they are committed to are: Non-Profit/For-Profit; Reproducible/Exclusive; Grassroots/Representative; Reinforcing the Commons/Other Aims. | ||
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===Related links=== | ===Related links=== | ||
http://movecommons.org/ | http://movecommons.org/ <br> | ||
http://movecommons.org/preview/ | http://movecommons.org/preview/ | ||