Social Documentation

Social Documentation is an ongoing conversation. This page is a braindump for intentional networks and groups.

Free, Libre and Open Community Exchange (FLOCX, working name)
A place to focus on free software and culture, with intentional projects that assist in people integrating best practices into their computer usage, while being inclusive. Groups/sites could be open to FLOSS projects that need to bootstrap their web presence, offering best practices and community participation, out of the box.


 * Webcraft Guild - peer mentoring group of webcrafters
 * Crowdfunding Directory - Based on http://cffsw.modernthings.org/
 * Human Computer - new user focused computer help, to ease the learning curve
 * Social Documentation - Maintains the repo and docs for setting up SD networks
 * Neat Places - A directory of places on Earth that are neat. Filters for accessibility, family-friendliness, practices, websites and inclusiveness.
 * FLO Manuals - Single pages documenting how free software works (and maybe other things). I have to explain to folks how to configure plenty of packages in the http://f-droid.org repo, so we can step in and help those developers and get their apps help pages.

East Bay Community Exchange (EB Crux)
The current trend is to create federated, decentralized social networks with free software. However, there is a niche to be served by centralizing documentation and effort at the "local" level, in this case with workgroups focused on solving specific problems in the East Bay area (Oakland and surroundings).


 * Food Security - Bring together the CSAs with the food justice orgs, create actionable tasks that have quick turnarounds, heavy documentation and discussion around design patterns that get food to people
 * Coworkers - People that cowork, want to work on projects together, but don't want to use a proprietary network to coordinate their efforts.
 * Oakland Privacy - There is an Oakland Privacy Group that is not public about who is running it. That undermines their efforts to coordinate folks around shutting down the DAC. An open, transparent group would be better.
 * Public art directory - One of the local groups wants to create a public art (murals) directory.

Paracosms
A network to support collective storytelling and gaming (which is a collective act of storytelling!).


 * mediacult - discussion of all media: books, comics, movies, shows, music, plays, websites, etc.
 * a database of actors, installments of media (episodes, books, chapters, etc.), franchises. Like IMDB, but quality over quantity.
 * Video Game Notes - Like GameFAQs, but quality over quantity. Feature free and open content.
 * All the servers! - A directory of online game servers. Like a better MUD Connector, but includes all games that the members play, and features active servers that meet certain criteria, such as being inclusive.
 * xDS.im - Swapnote-like message board, responsive on small devices, anonymous use.
 * Games Directory - either on the main site of a sub-site, a directory of RPGs, with meaningful metadata, such as genre, game play style, and heritage (tracking the DNA like MUD engines).
 * Brick and Mortar Store Directory - A clean, free (as in beer) directory of physical stores where role-playing games are sold. A way to highlight local hubs of cultural activity. Maybe include comic book and record shops. Feature stores that have decent policies, website and inclusiveness.
 * Systema - This will be the canonical document space for Systema.
 * Character Sheets - online forms to create characters for various RPGs.

This network will have online groups for gaming folks, with optional sub-sites. Not sure how that will work, but we will want to keep it uncluttered. Being able to create a group for a given campaign or other game idea will be useful.