Some of the things we talked about in this week’s catchup:
- there is no GOVERNMENT OF THE INTERNET
- the overlapping patchwork of open source communities (plural!)
- no single solution
- anarcho-syndicalism
- Fred Hampton: example of charismatic leader who can bring together a “Rainbow Coalition”
- Boris “This is movement building”
- historically it seems people are focused on a single small community, when we really need a “broad coalition”
We chatted about the Funding the Commons, and some of the people Jess will/might meet, eg:
- Christine Peterson, who invented the term Open Source Software
- Chad Fowler, who will be playing sax at a jazz club!
- many, MANY more
David Vargas update:
- Boris is all about maintaining and sustaining, but what we did with David was initiated a NEW open source library
- getting something off the ground is different work, requires different resources
- we need to get the words for the stages of a project from Nadia’s book…
Chad talked about the Playbook, which is pretty “pipeline” focused (getting from one stage to another), and about the marketing aspects:
- crosspost all the updates to all the locations
- drive traffic to OpenCollective: CTA is put money in the jar!
- David is really good at the video updates… very cool example!
Jess mentioned some good examples of opensource people on social media:
- Andreas Kling on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/andreaskling
- Steve Ruis(?)
- Pirijan from Kinopio https://twitter.com/pketh
- good tweet threads and animations of feature development
How do you use a channel well to generate buzz about your project? (Marketing Playbook)
And lastly, even tho we were already over time:
- Chad just threw out the idea of Circular Economy
- also, individual blogs and podcasts evolving into networks: you pay the network and funds distributed
- partnership models like Deel customers putting discounts on the Perks page and generating transactions within the network between different companies
- more to think about here