From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 01:24:25 MST
--> Max M
> Reason wrote:
>
> > So I think that some form of technological community
> integration tool would
> > be very beneficial to the transhuman community at this time.
> The integration
> > between ExI boards and mailing lists is a first step in that
> direction, from
> > a technology point of view. What I have in mind would be
> something of the
> > "all places are one place" ilk:
>
> I think it would be a terrific idea to have one big >H site, with news
> and articles, that we all coorporate on. And if such a site will come
> into existence I am willing to support it.
>
> But I am afraid that it is a doomed idea to make one site to cover it
> all. We are all very much individualists, and so want to do our own
> thing our own way. So we all want to be site owners.
Exactly. My suggestion was not for one big >H site -- there is no central
repository in the plan, just a central clearing house with no associated
site. My suggestion is a way for everyone to be able to build their own
individual sites, and still have the big >H community output on that site.
So every new site can do its own thing and still incrementally add community
to the whole.
> I believe that the best way to do this sort of thing instead, would be
> to have some sort of "comunity license" where we share our content
> freely. So that we could each put our articles online, and other sites
> could copy them. With a proper copyright notice in the bottom of the
> article.
>
> Something like:
>
> ----------------------------------------
> "Article title", by author
> This article first appeared on:
> http://www.originalsite.org/articletitle.htm
> This content is protected by the Transhumanist comunity license at:
> http://www.transhumanism.org/comunity_license.htm
> ----------------------------------------
Which is also great. Copylefting everything an individual site does is up to
the site owner -- I think it's beneficial, but many article contributers
refuse to do this sort of thing.
In any case, articles are not the subject. I'm really talking about fusing
the disparate and separated transhumanist and pro-transhumanist online
communities into a closer configuration, allowing greater cross-pollination.
It is from community that things emerge, not from the posting of articles
(writing and posting articles is something that emerges from community, like
leaders, and new sites). So the content I'm talking about is e-mail, chat,
forum postings.
> That way we could get the best of both worlds, where authors can put
> something online, others can copy it and put it on their site, if they
> fullfill the comunity license. The comunity would get much more out of
> it's efforts. And every site owner would be working for their own little
> ego ;-)
Basically, yes, except as above, I'm talking about casual authorship. Email,
postings, chat: community.
> So I believe that we should look to create a comunity license instead of
> a big technical solution. It would be self organisation in a distributed
> system.
>
> If that works, we could then allways create some xml schemas so that the
> process could be automated.
The "big technical solution" I am referring to is pretty much the same thing
as "create some xml schemas so that the process can be automated." It's not
a hugely onerous or complex piece of work, given the initial goals.
Reason
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