Changes between Version 36 and Version 37 of technologists_congress

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Jul 27, 2010, 6:47:56 PM (15 years ago)

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alfredo

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 Simultaneously, a new concept in collaboration on-line became popular: used all over the United States and at various world and localized Social Forums. The "Collaborative Democracy Workshop" was first used at the first United States Social Forum in 2007 where technologists collaboratively developed a progressive approach to maintaining the Internet as a secure and open platform for movement building.
 
-These two processes have merged into what is known as a Techie Congress, an open virtual space led by and involving progressive technologists. The ultimate goal of the Techie Congress is to discuss and establish some principles about progressive techies responsibilities toward our movement, our rights in relationship to that movement and the social and political rights of all Internet users.
+These two processes have merged into what is known as a Techie Congress, a "campaign" comprised of official "Congress like" gatherings of progressive Techies. The ultimate goal of the Techie Congress is to discuss and establish some principles about progressive techies; responsibilities toward our movement, our rights in relationship to that movement and the social and political rights of all Internet users.
 
 Because of the traditional isolation techies have had within the movement (and from each other), this type of gathering has been very infrequent and an international movement of these gatherings is unprecedented.
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 == Techie Congress Description ==
 
-In this gathering, "techies" (the progressive movement's technologists) will join together to examine and discuss strategies for growing one of the largest, most important and powerful human movement in recent history.
+In this gathering, "techies" (the progressive movement's technologists) join together to examine and discuss strategies for growing one of the largest, most important and powerful human movement in recent history.
 
 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. Techies have been fundamental to this movement and will continue to play an increasingly important role in the progress of humanity.
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 To keep the document direct and concise, only 10 distinct proposals can exist at a given time. If 10 proposals already exist, the only way to add a new idea to the document is to edit an existing idea, which requires engaging other groups in a dialog to ensure an adequate number of re-endorsements.
 
+Here are the results of the two Techie Congresses held thus far.
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 [wiki:techie_congress_reports]
 
 [wiki:call_to_techie_congress]
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+Project Tasks:
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+ -- Follow up with and expansion of "membership" after each Congress
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+1 -- Establish email list and pages on the Congress's website for each Local Congress
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+2 -- Widely publicize the results of each Congress within that Congress's country and world-wide
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+3 -- Hold monthly on-line "follow up meetings" to survey members on their situations, discuss new issues coming up and how we can collaborate on dealing with them, discuss new tools, etc.
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+4 -- Hold annual "Techie Conference" gathering at some major conference in each of the locations
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+-- Hold New Techie Congresses
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+between 2010 and 2011 in Palestine (at the Palestine Educational Social Forum); Dakar, Senegal (at the upcoming World Social Forum in Jan, 2011); Brazil; India; Venezuela; and Canada.
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+-- A series of presentation and shared events among technologists world-wide include "show and tell" presentations on new software via video, international tech "consultation", joint international projects for software development, "sos line" to allow to support when techies in particular countries or areas are in trouble.