P2P Toolkit
This is a working space to list, present and comment the best tools and resources for activists.
If you want to collaborate, please write to michelsub2003 at yahoo dot com.
This project is the brainchild of Mary Joyce, Chinarut Ruangchotvit, Linda Nowakowski, Chris Smith, and Michel Bauwens.
Provisional list of topics to be covered
- Context/Backgrounder
- Collaboration Series (importance of principles)
- Definition
- How to pages
- Quickstart Guide
- Strategies
- Designing your Toolkit
- Maintaining and evolving your toolkit
- Best of Selection (aka. no frills toolkit)
- Testimonies by Activists
Scenarios
- consensus building
- proposal making
Technical components
- bloggers
- calendars (shared)
- chat rooms
- content management systems
- email (servers & clients)
- file sharing
- forums
- instant messenging
- knowledge managers
- massively large online systems (ie. Second Life)
- newsreaders (RSS)
- office suites (ie. OpenOffice.org)
- personal information systems
- picture organizers (ie. flickr)
- podcasting software
- project managers
- personal organizers
- search engines
- social networking platforms
- team workspace systems
- VoIP systems (ie. Skype)
- webcasting servers
- web page designers
- wiki software
- word processors (collaborative)