[FreeGeek] SFU Software and Activism Workshop

[ifny]

Has some good case studies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_politics

"The *open politics* theory combines aspects of the free software 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software> and open content 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content> movements with multilateral 
assumptions of postmoderism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmoderism>. 
It promotes decision making 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making> methods claimed to be a 
more open, less antagonistic, and more capable of determining what is in 
the public interest <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_interest> with 
respect to public policy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_policy> 
issues. The cost for these advantages is reliance on social software 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software>, with accompanying 
systemic biases <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_bias> that open 
politics advocates seek to overcome in various ways."



Jason Loughead wrote:
> Have you checked out http://aptgetanarchy.org ? There's some very 
> interesting essays on there.
>
> I'm also involved in ParIT Parecon Worker Co-op http://parit.ca , 
> OpenCity http://opencity.plug.ca (an annual festival promoting free 
> communication amongst activists, artist and anarchists), and also PLUG 
> Prairie Linux User Group http://plug.ca
>
> Jason
>
> Jack Bates wrote:
>> Hi Free Geek Vancouver! I'm working at SFU on collecting hardware for
>> Free Geek. Our Public Interest Research Group, a rad, central place on
>> campus has agreed to accept donations for us and share information about
>> Free Geek with excited activists. I'm preparing a workshop for the PIRG
>> retreat next weekend on "Software and Activism", how free software is an
>> activist cause and how open source tools can facilitate activism.
>>
>> Here's a rambling draft of what I know on the subject. I still got to
>> pear it down to some core ideas to present. Then I got to come up with
>> some interactive ways of presenting these abstract ideas, so I'm not
>> just preaching. Any teachers or PDP students on this list?
>> http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Education/Open_Source_Workshop
>>
>> I'd love your feedback on these topics and would love pointers to other
>> material on these subjects. I hear David is presenting on free software
>> and recycling, which is awesome: Can you give me any help David?
>>
>> Much thanks all! Jack
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