|
|
|||
|
Navigation User login Who's online There are currently 6 users and 36 guests online.
Online users
Support OlyBlog OlyBlog is run by volunteers who care about Olympia. If you like what we're doing, make a donation: OlyBlog is powered by:
Who's new
Upcoming events
 Poster Calendar  Favorite Olympia Blogs Bread and Roses of Olympia The Canaanite's Call Clubside Breakfast Time decorabilia Dark Woods Casino Party E. Side Neighborhood Assoc. Flummel, Flummer, Flummo In the Course of Events John G Bell's Blog Jon's Random Acts of Geekery judimendoza Last Word Blog Nafblog No Talking Heads Olympia Dumpster Divers Olympia Time One Pissed-Off Veteran Papa November Peregrinate Pirate Papa Plan B Olympia The Raccoon Arts Collective The Rambling Taoist Trees and Water Word on the Street What This Town Needs Yelley's Photo Blog Oly Public Bloglines  |
Submitted by Mike on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 10:33am.
Maybe a discussion of the Linux software model with benign dictator and operating license would give us some ideas about how this community should work? We are not going to be bound by a contract that says we can't market our ideas in the way that the Linux kernel is a commons, but maybe our social contract, the ethics of citizen journalism and basic blogging ethics are analogous?
|
OlyBlog.net OlyBlog is devoted to hyperlocal news and discussion specifically about Olympia, Washington. Contributors to OlyBlog are citizen journalists who care about their community and are tired of corporate media. If you'd like to contribute, please register for an account. Here is a list of local news beats that need to be covered. You can post your news as a personal blog entry, and it will be reviewed (and possibly edited) for promotion to the front page. You can also send news via email. All members of OlyBlog agree to abide by our Social Contract. You should also look at our comment and fair use policies. If you are frustrated about something said in a comment thread, go here. Olyblogger of the Month: Docents are fellow citizen journalists who volunteer to be at your service in order to help with any blog-related issues. They are: Rob RichardsInterests: community building; participatory art, democracy and economics; local politics; citizen journalism. emmettoconnell Interests: City Council, developing a local issues forum. enpen Interests: OlyBlog poster calendar, Olympia public art, local artist interviews, his family, poetry and stuff. Robert Whitlock Interests: peace, justice, nature, nonviolence, media, environment Rick Interests: citizen journalism, hyperlocal media, the knowledge commons. Docent email list Latest Classified Ads Books & Collections ›Blog Local 
|
|
|
OlyBlog is a site for news and discussion about Olympia, Washington. |
|||
Interesting....
Submitted by security_six on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 5:58pm.As I sit here on a open source driven machine...
So correct me if I am wrong here.
We have Rick analogous to Linus. Linus created a wonderful operating system and laid down some minimal rules on what Linux is, how Linux works, and how it must be distributed to be called Linux. In turn the community has created flavors that do everything from run mobile phones to massive server farms. You can get Linux that is easy to install, and you can get wicked difficult to use Linux depending on the level of control you seek.
On Olyblog within the confines of the social contract and the goal of hyper local content a lot of different things fit. I talk about guns, someone else talks about eating plants, and a third shows pictures of birds taken in a local park. Within the confines of certain parameters they are all Olyblog. In turn the users interact with the system in a manner defined by the evolving social contract to ensure that while the sum total of "Olyblog" is many differing pieces for different ends and uses, they are all still "Olyblog" Gentoo Linux is NOT Puppydog Linux, nor is security_six Mike, yet both are still part of the same overriding community.
In turn the community can dictate certain changes and modifications within the broad confines of the license/social contract.
Did I miss anything?
“How many more times are we going to cower under tables and chairs, whimpering like mindless dogs, thinking that someone else has the responsibility to save and protect us?” -Ted Nugent