Anyone going to Barcamps?
From:
Tim Bonnemann
Date:
Jan 27 22:20 UTC
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Hi,
Thanks for the mention, Aldon.
I'm the one organizing eDemocracyCamp March 1-2, 2008 (it's the
weekend immediately prior to Politics Online Conference 2008, where
you can also find me).
You can RSVP or find more info on these sites:
https://barcamp.pbwiki.com/eDemocracyCamp
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6660332063
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/297865/
http://groups.google.com/group/edemocracycamp
http://twitter.com/edemocracycamp
eDemocracyCamp is an informal, non-commercial, community-driven
event. We currently have about 40+ people signed up. We're looking
for more participants, lots of interesting content, volunteers to
help with organizing and set-up, and a few sponsors (to pay for
coffee, snacks, supplies, maybe t-shirts etc.).
If you live in the greater DC area or know anyone there who's into
this type of thing, please help spread the word. Thanks so much!
Look forward to meeting some folks from this list. ;-)
Tim
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On Jan 27, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Aldon Hynes wrote:
> Saturday, Feb 2nd, there will be an e-governance barcamp in
> Boston. Then, the first weekend of March, there will be an e-
> governance barcamp in Washington DC. Anyone going to either of
> them? (I'm thinking of going to Boston).
>
> I just wrote a blog post dealing with this and thoughts are
> appreciated.
>
> Aldon
>
> Politics and Governance
> http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/2757
>
>
>
> Recently on the Group Psychotherapy mailing list I am part of, the
> question came up about whether members could copy portions of
> emails for articles they were working on. This brought up some very
> good discussions about copyright, privacy, and ethics. Underlying
> all of this was the question of how rules get made. One person
> observed how the group was reluctant to establish rules. Another
> asked why rules the list needed rules, at which point the first
> person rested his case.
>
> With Second Life, there seems to be similar resistance to effective
> rule making. As I noted in my SLNN Reporters Notebook, people claim
> that Daniel Linden said LL keeps its policies deliberately vague
> because, "as soon as they draw a solid line, someone will walk up
> to the line, lean over it and spit over it."
>
> Are these, and other examples of difficulties establishing online
> rules a function of the online environment? In an online
> environment, the question of authority arises. Who has authority on
> a mailing list or in an online community? Is it the moderators, the
> company that runs the community, some combination? If it is some
> sort of combination, how is that worked out? To what extent should
> rules be established by direct democracy or by a representative
> democracy where rule makers are elected? What role does the absence
> of cues that we receive in face-to-face interactions play in
> peoples resistance to rule making online?
>
> Is there something bigger going on here? Do people generally resist
> rule making, not wanting to be the disliked rule giver? Does this
> happen independent of the means of communication?
>
> Next week, there will be an E-governance barcamp in Boston. Steven
> Clift has been working on e-democracy since 1994. Yet these efforts
> all seem to get drowned out with all the e-politics. It seems like
> everyone wants to argue the political points, but somehow e-
> governance initiatives dont get the same amount of focus.
>
> Does it make sense to have an experiential mailing list focused on
> e-governance? Can virtual environments like Second Life or Central
> Grid establish effective e-governance? How useful will the e-
> governance barcamp be? It will be fun to find out.
>
>
>
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