ContentIncubator

While the wiki is in its infancy, I've been trying to work on strategically building content as a "seed" for the future. The links below go to pages I'm working on, pages I'd like to work on, and pages that I think need help. If you want to edit, or get an idea of what we're doing, please check it out.

I've just started working on a project to specify a free network service that would provide a distributed social networking capability in hopes of furthering the proliferation of SoftwareFreedom and ?FreeNetworkServices. I'm calling it, tentatively Sygn Systems. I'm very interested in your contributions, comments and freedback.

I'm interested in writing more to explore ?open source software development methodologies and collaboration vis a vis ethnographic-inspired studies of specific ?projects, tools like ?version control, ?licensing and ?programming languages.

I'm interested in discussing advanced and technical software tools that support and enhance our ability to work, for programmers and non-programmers alike. How do we use ?text editors and ?emacs to work effectively, even if were not programmers? Are ?wikis an effective tool for organizing information, and if you use a wiki, do you have ?strategies or practices?

This wiki like a natural place to discuss the "practices" and usage patterns that make up "Practices" and informal systems that govern how we organize information and technologically moderated societies, This covers everything from strategies for participation in ?cyberculture and discussions of ?new media to discussions of of how to ?name files, ?organize non-text information like music and movies, how to leverage and use technologies like search.

I'm interested in expanding coverage of specific "technologies" within the context of "technology practices." This includes topics like ?desktop computing patterns, particularly for free and open source operating systems. This includes strategies, approaches, suggestions, and observations about ?tiling window managers and the ?awesome window manager, arbitrary ?desktop command lines like ?quicksilver, ?launchy, and ?gnome-do, as well as the evolution of key desktop software like ?browsers and ?email tools tools.

Finally, this wiki would be incomplete without an exploration of ?cyberculture and ?networked technology. Obviously ?OpenSource, as discussed above, is a part of this; however, the cultures of ?blogging, ?microblogging (eg. twitter, identi.ca), ?wikis are all fair game.

These links and discussions serve merely as a jumping off point, and lets of course talk about others as well.