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* We want to convince our audience to try using the Move Commons labels: it will help people find which initiative they want to support by helping initiatives to display the principles they are committed to. | * We want to convince our audience to try using the Move Commons labels: it will help people find which initiative they want to support by helping initiatives to display the principles they are committed to. | ||
* We want to encourage everyone to ask him/herself key questions about the various collectives/initiatives/NGOs they follow/contact/participate to. | |||
* We also want to gather feedback on how to improve and make Move Commons evolve in the right direction. | * We also want to gather feedback on how to improve and make Move Commons evolve in the right direction. | ||
* We want to forster our team by welcoming new participants worldwide. | * We want to forster our team by welcoming new participants worldwide. | ||
* We believe in a bottom-up decentralized communication mechanism to build trust around initiatives: we want to build trust around the Move Commons initiative itself. | * We believe in a bottom-up decentralized communication mechanism to build trust around initiatives: we want to build trust around the Move Commons initiative itself. | ||
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===What will they do when they get there? (activities)=== | ===What will they do when they get there? (activities)=== | ||
* Each one can choose and fill-in a sticker of the initiative/collective they come from: 1) the name of the initiative + 2) relevant MC icons + 3) tags/keywords | * Each one can choose and fill-in a sticker of the initiative/collective they come from: | ||
**1) Fill-in the '''name of the initiative''' + | |||
**2) Choose & stick your relevant [http://homes.ourproject.org/~vjrj/otros/mc-sticker-icons-0.1.png '''MC icons'''] + | |||
**3) Fill-in your initiative's '''tags'''/keywords | |||
**4) '''Stick''' your final badge in your name-badge or t-shirt and each participant can advertise how his/her collective/initiative is labelled (i.e. what are its core principles). [http://homes.ourproject.org/~vjrj/otros/mc-sticker-0.2.png Example of final sticker] | |||
* Test & Chat: those who have their stickers can discuss about the different MC icons with us and/or with others, double-check they are well-labelled, challenge others' to label their initiatives, find others with similar keywords/tags: it could trigger collaboration in the spot :) | * Test & Chat: those who have their stickers can discuss about the different MC icons with us and/or with others, double-check they are well-labelled, challenge others' to label their initiatives, find others with similar keywords/tags: it could trigger collaboration in the spot :) | ||
* After testing & chatting, brainstorming about possible changes/improvements of the MC labels | * After testing & chatting, brainstorming about possible changes/improvements of the MC labels | ||
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===Additional background and context=== | ===Additional background and context=== | ||
Here and there we see many initiatives promoting the Commons in different fields (open web, OER, free culture, or seeds). However, only a few have reached critical mass and are well-known by various communities, while the majority are still in their corner, ignored by the mainstream. Move Commons (MC) is a crazy idea which aims at boostinbg the visibility and diffusion of such initiatives, and to build a network among related initiatives/collectives across the world, allowing mutual discovery. We think it can facilitate them | Here and there we see many initiatives promoting the Commons in different fields (open web, OER, free culture, or seeds). However, only a few have reached critical mass and are well-known by various communities, while the majority are still in their corner, ignored by the mainstream. Move Commons (MC) is a crazy idea which aims at boostinbg the visibility and diffusion of such initiatives, and to build a network among related initiatives/collectives across the world, allowing mutual discovery. We think it can facilitate them reaching critical mass. Besides, newcomers could easily understand the collective approach in their website, and/or discover collectives matching their field/location/interests in [http://movecommons.org movecommons.org]. | ||
MC follows the same mechanics that Creative Commons (CC) uses for cultural works: we provide a user-friendly, bottom-up, labelling system for each collective/initiative, with four meaningful icons, together with a complementary set of additional tags to provide further classification ( | MC follows the same mechanics that Creative Commons (CC) uses for cultural works: we provide a user-friendly, bottom-up, labelling system for each collective/initiative, with four meaningful icons, together with a complementary set of additional tags to provide further classification (field, geographical location...). We provide a semantic layer on top of this labelling mechanism in order to allow searches such as: «which initiatives exist in Beirut that are a grassroots organisation, non-profit, delivering Creative Commons content, related to "alternative education" and "teen-agers"» (think of your favorite principles, keywords and places). | ||
The four labels that each initiative can display are: Non-Profit/For-Profit; Reproducible/Exclusive; Grassroots/Representative; Reinforcing the Commons/Other Aims. | The four labels that each initiative can display are: Non-Profit/For-Profit; Reproducible/Exclusive; Grassroots/Representative; Reinforcing the Commons/Other Aims. | ||