In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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Tue, 2008/04/22 - 4:00pm — Benjamin Melançon
Many, many groups need a robust web presence with community tools but lack the resources to pay for such a thing to be created and made to look quality.
Groups like these are also natural allies of
This would make Ning a main competitor / collaborator. They spent three years funded with millions of dollars building their system, but we have Drupal.
Other organizations will provide subsidized hosting for PWGD-enabled sites.
the distributed model, at least in this sense, will be baked in to PWGD from the beginning.
People won't have to visit the PWGD site to participate.
PWGD
= People Wanting Greater Democracy
= People Wanting Great Days
= People With Good Dreams
= People Will Gain
= Power Works Great Decentralized
= Powerful Words Greater Deeds
make the case for being this common network by being completely open and without any agenda of its own
how do we have a communications network that is open to everyone without overwhelming everyone with more messages than they could process in a lifetime?
I make a living doing web design and development with a great team
The Agaric Design Collective
I'm trying to make possible a worldwide nonviolent revolution for justice, liberty, and making more good things doable.
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America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.