Collaboration Platforms

Introduction

Please list all known collaboration platforms relevant to physical product development here. After we compile a list, we will analyze it and determine a strategy for using these platforms towards creating the Global Village Construction Set in conjunction with this wiki, the factorefarm.org Drupal site, factorefarm.org/weblog blog, and the Factor e Farm physical facility and collaboratory.

List

• 3.31.09 - Collaborative p2p design - [1]
• 3.31.09 - [2] from Adam Arvidsson via Oekonux contacts
• http://www.gaiau.org/
• http://open-innovation-projects.org/project-list/
• Science for Humanity - As you will see from the website there is a tab called 'Seekers'. If you click on one of the sub sections under this tab you will be able to start a discussion in the relevant area. - http://www.scienceforhumanity.net/challenge-process.html
• http://osengineering.org/sitemap.html
• Network for Open Scientific Innovation - http://freedomofscience.org/
• Thinkcycle.org - now defunct? - yes, I think, and a good example of why "copyleft" is a bad alternative to Public Domain - Andrius
• http://globalswadeshi.net
• Global Villages yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/
• Minciu Sodas' http://www.worknets.org/ see our Interface page http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Interface I am visiting Franz Nahrada and overhauling our websites. Yesterday I wrote a script that takes the metadata in our wiki pages and stores them in a MySQL database. Today I'm going to use that to organize RSS feeds. Any RSS feed that we're interested in we'll assign to some page. It is a good time to consider how we might work together, for example, on developing templates for supporting technology development. Andrius Kulikauskas

Suggestions

• From Michael K - So my thought is that there needs to be a much more robust development site (think SourceForge, GitHub).

There is a great book by Clay Shirky called “Here Comes Everybody” that goes fairly in depth into why collaborative projects like Wikipedia, SourceForge and others have seen such huge success, that might offer insight into how to allow users to help (not convince). It must be intuitive.

Either way, we’ve been developing an a site called “open+pario” which has the goal of facilitating open production but is geared towards a more broad base of knowledge producers (not just software). Here soon we’ll be taking beta testers and I would very much like to have you all involved. Let me know what you think!

Strategy towards applying existing platforms to the Global Village Construction Set

• Gaia University:Develop credible degree pathways in collaboration with Gaia's pre-existing network of experts and advisers. Contemporaneously, Factor E and its True Fans can develop a peer group of experts and advisers to facilitate the advancement of the Global Village Construction Set. The students attracted to this program will be accredited through Gaia University, in collaboration with Open Source Ecology and the many component projects of the Global Village Construction Set. These developments can lead to the future establishment of a Midwest-based Gaia University/Open Source Ecology union; surely, amid other productive sets of symbiotic relationships.

Degree Programs under Consideration : --to be recorded in near future--