diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2414: Approach the programmers at occupyhack and involved with various protest movements
Author: skoria
Created: 2011-11-16 19:29:02+00:00
State: open

I posted this with regard to https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/2385 and then I was told this would be a better place for this suggestion.

This issue is really useful in protest movements - especially those facing government repression, but this also brings to mind other ways diaspora might be useful. I don't know where this could go though, so I'm posting here. It would be good to link up diaspora's whole community with the wider OWS hackers and techies who may now be looking to add their own functionality. When I joined the 15-m movement here in spain I tried to promote the use of the open source social network #lorea, which has been quite successful so far. The 15-m movement created an enormous bug and task list, and not many programmers, so a touring hackathon set out across spain and meetings were organised both locally and nationally to teach the computer basics necessary to organise protests and administer each local assembly and it's various groups online. I think with Diaspora being a much larger project, it might be possible to channel some programming skills towards helping OWS have a durable, but flexible IT structure with all the benefits of these forward thinking projects.