Community building: totierne 18August
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Case Studies
- for a small distributed
religious community: Currently uses an excel and word document and an
emailing list.
- Migration
to Oracle community: Currently uses discussion forum, free as in beer
software, email, support and full infrastructure inside the company.
- 'Revolutionary' web site: How to create and sustain interest to keep
the want-to-be revolutionaries amused writing and reading to their own web
sites. Maybe agents for change is better than revolutionaries. Maybe www.indymedia.org is the model
Cheap Options: egroups, wiki [see www.c2.com for one in action], irc chat, instant messager software, geocities
type simple web sites, would elements of SourceForge be useful? Email lists
Medium options: Spend time developing content and worry about infrastructure
later: What do I want to read, what works as a group, where is the flow of
information? Slashdot style discussion software.
High Level Options: Develop more inhouse expertise that will be sought out
for comment, from a priest to an experiences migration consultant, to someone
how has done a revolution. I am not sure if this works myself, networking
should be near peer to peer.
Err over to you, feedback to totieNOSPAMrne at hot mail.com
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I intend to set up a wiki on the subject where anyone can add comments, see http://www.c2.com for an example of a wiki. There are freely hosted om http://www.freezope.org and http://www.seedwiki.com. I do this so I can take over the world. [joke] I do this so that my train of thought can be shackled to anothers and I do not head off into unconstrained thought land. I probably just want an expert in one area I can quiz to my hearts content and see how their knowledge transfers to related domains. Or maybe pretend to be the expert and get someone to go to the bother to quiz me! This has all been done before, this is just the [aborted??] start of a buy in process, to see what people want and what can be supplied to them, while being far away to not have to code the thing. Maybe I just want to find a piece in the jigsaw I can supply and make my millions, well if I could independantly earn 30 grand a year in a collective community effort.... it is a pipe dream, I am destined to be stuck in my cubical for the rest of my natural life.