[matilda] Meeting prep on another WIKI?

[Dan]

Coool! OK - how do we get this started? Shall we meet one evening at 
MATILDA? A Thursday? Though not this one, if that's OK...

How about next Thursday?

Dan

Alan Dawson wrote:
> Quoting Dan <dan at aktivix.org>:
> 
> 
>>Allo
>>
>>At the last meeting, I said I'd ask Chris what was happening with the 
>>wiki, since its a vital tool for our meeting organisation at MATILDA. 
>>It's still not working.
>>
>>Chris did respond to me at the start of March, saying he didn't know why 
>>it wasn't working, and that we should move it, but he didn't have time.
>>
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> the aktivix collective ( www.aktivix.org ) is planning on setting up a wiki
> 'farm' where many groups can host their own wiki's
> 
> This is in association with a number of international tech collectives - the
> current umbrella is called http://tachanka.org
> 
> I would suggest -  rather than breaking the existing wiki content and spreading
> over several disparate wiki's we put our energy into moving the existing wiki
> to the tachanka collective.
> 
> This would have some collaborative benefits.
> 
> 1. The tachanka organisation are interested in promoting tools for online, tech
> activism.
> 2.  secure: designed with anonymity and privacy in mind
> 3.  to provide a learning environment for new(er) techs to develop sysadmin
> skills
> 4.  Tachanka are working in partnership with mayfirst.org and riseup.net, both
> existing tech activist collectives
> 5.  Any funding or donations for cost or hosting would be going to support
> people who are commited to non hierarchical and anticapitalist actions.  I
> notice that openplanning.net is hosted by suresupport.com, do they have the
> same commitments ?
> 
> So i would make an alternative proposal.  
> 
> 1.  That we don't spread the wiki content across several name spaces.
> 2.  That the ssf and matilda wiki's move to the new tachanka wiki farm.
> 
> Dan, why don't you consider moving openplanning.net also ?  Also, why not help
> moving the wiki and setting up the new farm ?  Its hard work and people who
> have enthusiasm, time , skills, etc are hard to find.
> 
> Given enough push this could happen quite quickly, and would also kickstart some
> great new services for other groups and communities.
> 
> regards,
> 
> AED