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| Welcome to my
homepage Welcome to my homepage, a crazy collection of projects, writings, pictures and other bits and bobs I collect on the web. I'm a enggineering grad and I'm interested in free culture, environmentalism, trade justice and sticks. Here you can read essays, peruse my blog and gaze with envy or disgust at photographs. Then again, why stay here when you can go for a stroll in the sunshine instead. If you would like to contact me then i am sorry for now because i am presently busy doing by engg.degree from mesce. |
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Researches Free software/culture Good articles on environmental issues How to be more green Notes from my scientific and Politics degree The Hacker Ethic The Value Noodle Project The LIDL Wine Project Random tidbits |
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| This month's
pick. What's the obsession with wikis? In the morning discussion we decided that a working group would be set-up to discuss core values. Chaired by an academic and largely composed of active community members, they would present a paper to the community four months in advance of the next iSummit, giving everyone time to digest and debate its contents before making some decisions at the summit. Now it seems that the working group has been dropped in favour of drafting it on a wiki. The following quote from buridan, who thoroughly opposed the core values idea, says it all: perhaps a wiki statment of values program will provide evidence to some of what i've been talking about, [that the community won't agree] How on earth is a diverse and largely disconnected community supposed to develop a statement of core values with nothing more than a wiki page? This isn't a Wikipedia style project, this requires experience, careful consideration, well facilitated discussions, position papers and the like. Thankfully Heather Ford was wise enough to suggest that, if the wiki approach fails, the working group will be set-up. If I hear or read one more plonker going on about some mythical, utopian open source community where people just group around nice projects and everything is hunky dory I'm going to scream. Maybe in a safe middle class world where we can shut ourselves off from other issues, fine. But I doubt the exploited worker, the community suffering from climate change, or the people who fume when iCommons coseys up to Microsoft because of sponsorship deals, will be quite so enthusiastic about this laissez faire utopia |
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