• Resources
  • Indexes of Occupations
    • Existing Federations
  • Similar Projects
  • Similar efforts outside OWS
    • indexes of Distributed Social Networks
• Decision-making / Online Voting / Electronic Democracy
  • Projects in Legislative Use
• Relevant Web Products
  • General "Team" products
  • Reputation / Feedback
  • Community Management
  • Social Networks
  • Tasks & Work
  • Events
    • Meeting tools
  • Other
• Recommended Reading

Resources¶

Indexes of Occupations¶

• http://directory.occupy.net -- FGA Directory which draws from the following sources:
  • http://www.occupytogether.org/actions
  • https://sites.google.com/site/wealloccupy/
  • awesome google spreadsheet indexing occupations
  • detailed list of all known European squares

Existing Federations¶

• National GA Coalition on Facebook
• index of Federated Social Network Apps on the new social web project

Similar Projects¶

• The Global Square
• Lorea
• Occupy the Stack
• http://www.occupywithin.us
• http://www.virtualpol.com/ - in spanish, and a retro look, but socially conscious in its metaphors and functionality

Similar efforts outside OWS¶

• W3C Federated Social Web incubator | 2010 summit
• The New Social Web
• http://buddycloud.com - uses XMPP, can run your own server or use theirs. 1:1, no groups
• Delegated democracy platform: http://leparlement.org/
• http://tribeforth.org
• Federated Social Web on Drupal (presentation by elf-pavlik)
  • http://www.slideshare.net/elfpavlik/federated-social-web-on-drupal/
  • http://vimeo.com/32306203

indexes of Distributed Social Networks¶

• on wikipedia is available in this google doc
• on the new social web project
  • only active projects
• Directory of participatory platforms: http://participedia.net/

Decision-making / Online Voting / Electronic Democracy¶

There are been many parallel attempts made at developing electronic democracy. While we are at this time black boxing the "voting" we must circumscribe the space that we stand to operate in, and understand the existing landscape in academic and other circles.

The electronic direct democracy (E2D) wiki provides a thorough index of e-Voting platforms

• Voterola is social software in support of non-party primary elections and public rule making. They develop the tools to enable a radically free democracy based on unrestricted voting, drafting and discussion. Their alpha prototypes cover everything from voter registration in electoral districts to consensus making, and they lead the field in design, theory and inventions.
• Agora Virtual Parliament. The Agora Ciudadana project aims to develop an internet voting system that is cryptographically secure, supports vote delegation, and scales well to massive elections.
• Open Assembly is voting platform and social network designed to implement a secure trust network using an innovative Photo Verification method.
• Interoccupy Consensus Proposal. No cost, Lowest tech possible, prioritizes On-The-Ground GA process and autonomy.
• Lee Worden's research wiki

Projects in Legislative Use¶

• Liquid Feedback is the platform that catapulted the Piratenpartei (Pirate Party) into the state parliament of Berlin and has her at 7-10% in recent national polls. It's a solid implementation of the Schulze method combined with proxy voting. Open source of course. Concerning the validity we use physical identification with testimonies and organize that in form of an association or political party. See http://piratenpad.de/occuliquid for more.

• Resources
  • Indexes of Occupations
    • Existing Federations
  • Similar Projects
  • Similar efforts outside OWS
    • indexes of Distributed Social Networks
• Decision-making / Online Voting / Electronic Democracy
  • Projects in Legislative Use
• Relevant Web Products
  • General "Team" products
  • Reputation / Feedback
  • Community Management
  • Social Networks
  • Tasks & Work
  • Events
    • Meeting tools
  • Other
• Recommended Reading

Relevant Web Products¶

a listing of interesting and relevant web products whose features, design we should be aware of

General "Team" products¶

http://teambox.com
http://www.huddle.com
https://www.rule.fm
http://status.net/features

Reputation / Feedback¶

http://turntable.fm
http://stackoverflow.com/
http://hypothes.is/
http://engage.cs.washington.edu/reflect - bulletpoint sidecomments on comments

Community Management¶

http://www.wikia.com - poss. interesting re: governance and conflict resolution models
http://livingvotersguide.org -WA state citizen-powered voter's guide; pros, cons, slider for dis/agree, aggregate data

Social Networks¶

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Tasks & Work¶

https://trello.com - beyond the issue-tracker paradigm

Events¶

http://calagator.org - unified calendar for Portland Tech; import-export [github ]

Meeting tools¶

https://www.minutes.io - structured minutes recording
http://www.useketchup.com - structured minutes recording

Other¶

• http://kohort.com "Makes organizing easy, regardless of your groups size, structure, or species!"
• http://socialmediaweek.com
• http://path.com
• VIbe - anonymous messaging for iOS with expiration and geographic limits
• http://about.psyc.eu/Social
• http://wiki.socialswarm.net/Software

Recommended Reading¶

These should p'raps have some sorting other than author.

• Jaron Lanier - You Are Not a Gadget (book)'

• Robert Helvey
  • On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals (book + PDF)

• Gene Sharp
  • From Dictatorship to Democracy (book + free mp3/PDF)
  • Self-Liberation (book + free mp3/PDF)
  • There Are Realistic Alternatives (book + free mp3/PDF)
  • Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential (book + free mp3/PDF)
  • 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (page)
  • Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle (book)

• Clay Shirky
  • Here Comes Everybody (book)
  • Cognitive Surplus (book)
  • A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (post)
  • Communities, Audiences, and Scale. (post)

• C. T. Lawrence Butler
  • Presentation at OWS - http://pickup.lippemanufacturing.org/20111127Consensus_Ctbutler_1-2.mp3

• Graph Databases
  • Semantic Web For Dummies
  • Analyzing social media networks with nodexl
  • Mining the social web (oreilly)

• "Thought leaders" in movement ideology & process
  • David Graeber - Wikipedia Academic Profile
  • Lisa Fithian - Wikipedia Trainers Alliance
  • Starhawk - Wikipedia Personal Site Trainers Alliance
  • C.T. Lawrence Butler - Wikipedia Personal website