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Tag/Categorize/Rethink your initiative... with Move Commons stickers

Contact: Samer Hassan [samer at ourproject dot org]
Team: Bastien Guerry (Paris), Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado (Madrid), Samer Hassan (Beirut)
Host: Comunes collective
Proposed 'space' or theme: "Angels Hacking" space
Status: in the schedule

Summary

Tag/Categorize/Rethink your initiative... with Move Commons stickers Ask certain key questions to your own initiative/collective/NGO and show the principles it is committed to through a sticker badge. Audience: everyone. Plus, activists. Hosted by Comunes collective.

What do you want to achieve? (goal)

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 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.

Who should come? How many? For how long? (audience)

Anyone interested/involved in a collective and/or a non-profit
Anyone caring about Commons (knowledge commons, ecology commons, etc.)
Anyone passionate about Creative Commons principles and eager to see how they can be an inspiration for creating a labelling tool for initiatives & collectives
Activists who want to advertise the principles they are committed to in an easy and clear way
Hackers wandering how to use the semantic web for connecting and organising the jungle of initiatives
Social movement activists; NGO runners and volunteers; hackers and developers; Creative Commoners
Anyone interested in showing a fancy sticker of their initiative :)

Hoping for a constant flow of participants who want their sticker when they see others around and ask "from where did you get that??" :)
Time: 1 hour, 2 hours, more... flexible

What will they do when they get there? (activities)

Each one can build a sticker of the initiative/collective they come from:
- 1) Fill-in the name of the initiative in the empty sticker badge
- 2) Think, choose & stick your relevant MC icons in your badge
- 3) Fill-in your initiative's tags/keywords
- 4) Stick your final MC-badge in your drumbeat-registration-badge or in your t-shirt and each participant can advertise how his/her collective/initiative is labelled (i.e. what are its core principles). 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 :)
After testing & chatting, brainstorming about possible changes/improvements of the MC labels
Volunteer to be part of our team

What will you / they have at the end? (outputs)

Festival participants proudly showing their fancy MC stickers all over during several days
Documented feedback and suggestions
Lots of examples of initiatives/collectives labelled with MC icons
Complaints/critics about initiatives not properly fitting into current MC categories
List of new volunteers and contributors to the project

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 boosting 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 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 (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.

What we mean by the four principles: "Non-Profit" (otherwise: "For-Profit") tells whether the initiative is volunteer-based and not profit-driven; "Reproducible" (otherwise: "Exclusive") refers to the openness and transparency (sharing their procedures to facilitate replication); "Grassroots" (otherwise: "Representative") indicates if the collective has a horizontal structure; "Reinforcing the Commons" (otherwise "Other Aims") highlights those that protects/expands/empower The Commons.

MC expects to provide a free platform where multiple extensions can be implemented, such as a recommendation system of similar collectives, additional semantic web layers, geographical mapping, stats and graphs over the collected data (made available for free through APIs), network visualization, web widgets, etc.

MC is still a prototype: we are looking forward new ideas and contributions. It aims to be launched by the end of this year 2010.

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-'''Tag/Classify/Rethink your initiative... with Move Commons stickers'''
+'''Tag/Categorize/Rethink your initiative... with Move Commons stickers'''
 *Contact: Samer Hassan [samer at ourproject dot org]<br>
 *Team: Bastien Guerry (Paris), Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado (Madrid), Samer Hassan (Beirut)
 *Host: [http://comunes.org Comunes collective] <br>
-*Proposed 'space' or theme: unknown<br>
+*Proposed 'space' or theme: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/activities#Angels_hacking_.28at_the_square.29 "Angels Hacking" space]<br>
-*Status: unknown <br>
+*Status: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/schedule in the schedule] <br>
 ===Summary===
-'''Tag/Classify/Rethink your initiative... with Move Commons stickers''' Ask certain key questions to your own initiative/collective/NGO and show the principles it is committed to through a sticker badge. Audience: everyone. Plus, activists. Hosted by [http://comunes.org Comunes collective].
+'''Tag/Categorize/Rethink your initiative... with Move Commons stickers''' Ask certain key questions to your own initiative/collective/NGO and show the principles it is committed to through a sticker badge. Audience: everyone. Plus, activists. Hosted by [http://comunes.org Comunes collective].
+===What do you want to achieve? (goal)===
-===What do you want to achieve? (goal)===
+* We want to convince our audience to try using the [http://www.drumbeat.org/project/move-commons 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 want to promote that people ask themselves several key questions about the approach of the different collectives/initiatives/NGOs they see/contact/participate in everyday.
+* We want to forster our team by welcoming new participants worldwide.
-* We would like to raise awareness about the advantages of categorizing initiatives and collectives using the "Move Commons" labels
-* We also hope to gather feedback on how to improve and evolve MC, and invite interested people to join the initiative
+* 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.
 ===Who should come? How many? For how long? (audience)===
-* Anyone interested in collectives and non-profits
+* Anyone interested/involved in a collective and/or a non-profit
-* Anyone passionate about Creative Commons principles and eager to see how they can be applied to create a self-labelling tool for initiatives & collectives
+* Anyone caring about Commons (knowledge commons, ecology commons, etc.)
-* Activists wanting to advertise the principles they are committed to in an easy and clear way
+* Anyone passionate about Creative Commons principles and eager to see how they can be an inspiration for creating a labelling tool for initiatives & collectives
+* Activists who want to advertise the principles they are committed to in an easy and clear way
 * Hackers wandering how to use the semantic web for connecting and organising the jungle of initiatives
-* More in general, social movement activists; NGO runners and volunteers; hackers and developers; Creative Commoners
+* Social movement activists; NGO runners and volunteers; hackers and developers; Creative Commoners
-* Anyone interested in showing a fancy sticker of their initiative :)
+* Anyone interested in showing a [http://movecommons.org/mc/0.1/images/mc-sticker-0.3-sample.png fancy sticker] of their initiative :)
 * Hoping for a constant flow of participants who want their sticker when they see others around and ask "from where did you get that??" :)
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 ===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) name of the initiative + 2) Choose your convenient MC logos/icons + 3) tags/keywords. The final badge can be sticked in your t-shirt, and each participant can advertise how his/her collective/initiative is classified (or in other words, to which principles it is committed).
+* Each one can build a sticker of the initiative/collective they come from:
-* Test & Chat: Those who have their stickers, can discuss about the different MC logos with us or with others, double-check they are well-classified, challenge others' classification, and find others with similar keywords/tags: it could trigger collaboration in the spot :)
+**1) Fill-in the '''name of the initiative''' in the [http://movecommons.org/mc/0.1/images/mc-sticker-7x5cm.png empty sticker badge]
-* After testing & chatting, brainstorming about possible changes/improvements of MC
+**2) Think, choose & stick your relevant [http://movecommons.org/mc/0.1/images/mc-sticker-icons-7x5cm.png '''MC icons'''] in your badge
-* Volunteer to help out longer term (if you are interested)
+**3) Fill-in your initiative's '''tags'''/keywords
+**4) '''Stick''' your final MC-badge in your drumbeat-registration-badge or in your t-shirt and each participant can advertise how his/her collective/initiative is labelled (i.e. what are its core principles). [http://movecommons.org/mc/0.1/images/mc-sticker-0.3-sample.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 :)
+* After testing & chatting, brainstorming about possible changes/improvements of the MC labels
+* Volunteer to be part of our team
 ===What will you / they have at the end? (outputs)===
-* Festival participants showing proudly their fancy MC stickers all over and during several days
+* Festival participants proudly showing their fancy MC stickers all over during several days
 * Documented feedback and suggestions
-* Lots of examples of initiatives/collectives classified with MC
+* Lots of examples of initiatives/collectives labelled with MC icons
-* Complaints/critics about the initiatives which did not fit properly in MC
+* Complaints/critics about initiatives not properly fitting into current MC categories
 * List of new volunteers and contributors to the project
 ===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 [http://movecommons.org movecommons.org].
+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 boosting 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 (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).
-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.
+The four labels that each initiative can display are: Non-Profit/For-Profit; Reproducible/Exclusive; Grassroots/Representative; Reinforcing the Commons/Other Aims.
-What we mean by the four principles: "Non-Profit" (otherwise: "For-Profit") recognizes if the initiative is volunteer-based and not profit-driven; "Reproducible" (otherwise: "Exclusive") refers to openness (using CC) and transparency (sharing their procedures to facilitate replication); "Grassroots" (otherwise: "Representative") indicates if the collective has a horizontal structure; "Reinforcing the Commons" (otherwise "Other Aims") highlights those that protects/expands/empower The Commons.
+What we mean by the four principles: "Non-Profit" (otherwise: "For-Profit") tells whether the initiative is volunteer-based and not profit-driven; "Reproducible" (otherwise: "Exclusive") refers to the openness and transparency (sharing their procedures to facilitate replication); "Grassroots" (otherwise: "Representative") indicates if the collective has a horizontal structure; "Reinforcing the Commons" (otherwise "Other Aims") highlights those that protects/expands/empower The Commons.
-MC expects to provide a free platform where multiple extensions can be implemented, such as a recommender system of similar collectives, additional semantic web layers, geographical mapping, stats and graphs over the open data, network visualisation, web widgets, etc.
+MC expects to provide a free platform where multiple extensions can be implemented, such as a recommendation system of similar collectives, additional semantic web layers, geographical mapping, stats and graphs over the collected data (made available for free through APIs), network visualization, web widgets, etc.
-MC is still a prototype, and thus we are very open to others' ideas and contributions. It aims to be launched by the end of this year 2010.
+MC is still a prototype: we are looking forward new ideas and contributions. It aims to be launched by the end of this year 2010.
 ===Related links===
+http://www.drumbeat.org/project/move-commons <br>
 http://movecommons.org/ <br>
-http://movecommons.org/preview/
+http://movecommons.org/preview/ <br>