1. The Place
. 1. What is it?
. 2. Values and themes
. 3. Inspiration
. 4. Projects
1 The Place
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I guess that this must be the place
1.1 What is it?
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In short:
- an environment imbued with certain values
- a community informed by those values
Slightly more concretely:
- a virtual environment and meeting space facilitating collaborative
creative expression and the exchange of ideas
1.2 Values and themes
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In no particular order yet, some ideas about the types of values and
themes that might inform the direction of this project.
- the inherent dignity of every human person
- kindness
- informed optimism
- fun
- progressive enhancement
- speculative fiction
- mutual aid
- learning (education) for its own sake
- sustainability
- accessibility
- most technical problems are primarily political problems
- themes to explore (to further inform values):
- the power of language
- the power of technology
- explorations of ethics and the production of social norms around
the responsible distribution and exercise of power in the contexts
of language (and) technology
- the implications of scale
- electricity
- related themes:
- software user freedom
- open hardware
- the production of basic necessities (food, shelter, etc.)
- retro-computing
- science and technology studies (STS)
- interactive fiction
- role playing games
- science fiction and fantasy
- worker cooperatives
- decentralization
- federation
- documentation
- distributism
- contextual integrity
- citizen science
- software development / programming / programming language theory
- architecture and urban planning
- information theory
1.3 Inspiration
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Again, in no particular order yet, some existing works and projects
which may provide some inspiration for the direction of this project
Books:
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
- ...
