Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of internet_rights_gmc_2008

Timestamp:

Jan 22, 2008, 9:32:31 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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 = GMC 2008 Workshop Proposal =
 
-== Proposal ==
+= GMC 2008 Workshop Proposal =
 
-Title: Organizing the Organic Internet
+== Organizing the Organic Internet ==
 
-In this gathering, activists will join together to examine and discuss the largest, most important and powerful human collaboration in recent history.
+In this gathering, activists will join together to examine and discuss one of the largest, most important and powerful human collaborations in recent history.
 
-With over a billion people engaging in a collective activity, today's Internet is humanity's largest social movement, reflecting the kind of social
+With over a billion people engaging in a collective activity, today's Internet is one of humanity's largest social movements, reflecting the kind of social
 interaction and collective achievement activists like us struggle for world-wide: fundamentally collaborative, democratic and based almost entirely
 on tools and software that has been produced collaboratively, developed by large, democratic communities and distributed freely. It is truly
 international and resilient against constant attempts to control its direction and curtail its positive growth.
 
-What's more this Internet has grown in this progressive way against considerable relentless opposition by the powerful forces that don't want a
+Even more inspiring, the Internet has grown in this progressive way against considerable relentless opposition by powerful forces that don't want a
 "better world" for most of us. As such, it represents one of the progressive movement's most significant and important victories.
 
 In this gathering, we seek to collaboratively write an Internet Justice Bill of Rights. Modeled after our successful workshop at the US Social Forum, we
 will break the audience into groups of 4 - 5 people.  Each group will speak with one voice via a "scribe" who will be tasked with entering the group's
-proposed rights of the group into the web-based system. The system will project onto a screen for all groups to see. 
+proposed rights of the group into a web-based system. A dynamic, projected display of the current state of the Bill of Rights is visible to all.
 
-Like the philosophy of free software on the Internet, there is no ownership of ideas. Once a group submits a right, any other group can edit that right.  All
-revisions are kept, however, only the most recent edit is presented.
+Any group can edit any Right, whether they wrote the original version or not  All revisions of a given Right are stored, but only the most recent edit is projected to the group as a whole.  The group which creates a new version of a right automatically endorses that right, but otherwise holds no special connection to it.
 
-Each group also has the option of endorsing a right. Once a right is edited, each group has to re-endorse the new version. The rights with the most
-endorsers float to the top, while the rights with the least endorses sink to the bottom of the list.
+Each group also has the ability to endorse any Right that seems worthy.   When a Right is edited, existing endorsements are cleared, which requires solicitation of new endorsements for the new version. Rights with more endorsers float to the top, while the rights with fewer endorsers sink to the bottom of the projected list.
 
-And finally, the catch: the system only allows 10 rights to be created. Once we reach 10, each group had to modify an existing right, thereby engaging the
-other groups in a dialogue.
+To keep the Bill of Rights to a manageable, concise size, only 10 rights can exist at a given time. If 10 rights already exist, the only way to add a new idea to the Bill is to edit an existing right, which requires engaging other groups in a dialog to ensure an adequate number of re-endorsements.
 
-The goal of the session is to examine, through interactive collaboration, what the Internet really means for us and our movements; how it models the society
-we are struggling for; how the way we've developed it serves as a model for how to develop that just society; and finally how we as progressive activists
-can work inside the Internet to broaden its positive impact and protect the gains we and it have made.
+The goal of the session is to examine, through interactive collaboration:
+ * what the Internet really means for us and our movements;
+ * how it models the society we are struggling for;
+ * how the way we've developed it serves as a model for how to develop that just society; 
+ * and finally how we as progressive activists can work inside the Internet to broaden its positive impact and protect the gains we and it have made.
 
 == Structure of the event ==
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 == Software ==
 
-Currently, what we have written is published on [http://mayfirst.org/node/467 my blog]. It should probably be added to our svn repository.
+Currently, what we have written is published on [http://mayfirst.org/node/467 jamie's blog]. It should probably be added to [browser:/trunk the MF/PL SVN repository].