User:Sj/ftw

On freeing the web. Scratch notes until we have a shared space.


 * Declare a page as the index of what's going on
 * Until further notice, this is that page


 * Build a small map of what's going on: issues and projecst; catalogs, timelines, overlapping groups and relations
 * Unclaimed


 * Publish a reader[s] of people writing in this space
 * See Nick's reader


 * Consider people working on mapping this space for existing foundations / funding the field (cf F.)
 * Flex the map: iterate on finding people already doing this.


 * Find people who can work on improving basic information over the summer: on 1-5 core publishing platforms (current popular sources for info on issues / policies / debates) -- as hackers or writers in residence, seated with people in the above map.
 * Line up sponsors and hosts. UV/G/


 * Find people who can visualize the space (or lay out)

pk runs a sopa listserv. --> ask there if there's a good project page and direct them to a central one.
 * See also: p.ruff & engage, engine.is, mz, n, ds, es, fftf, fp, hosts of useful services.
 * Sunlight: PopVox, OpenCongress, govtrack, internet society, icann?, etc.
 * Ed Felten, Mike Masnick, &c.

Timeline - a long term veiw that noets things go into zombie form and then come back. Cf. sopa / acta / &c.
 * connect this with people on the hill who know this stuff. it's oin the orgal brains of CDT and other activist orgs and politicians who know the space.
 * combine existing historical timelines w/ future views.

Background knowledge - define where this goes. • what background goes on WP? • how can we build better deeper info? ∘ for activists, existing pols, reporters, others. • authority tracking for articles • definitiveness issues? how to provide for unverified things? • law as ex: of having no central source

How can we configure a platform that does wp like things? • Is mediawiki platformization key? • how can we help staffers and otehrs who work on this every day captuer a neutral subset of their work / fat-gathering? (all sides of issues, incl 'anti' freedom)

summer project. • get students via clay and nick and mit • scraperwiki coming to the knight events • post internship ideas • beth novack -