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
Consulting Process
These questions are designed to ellicit needs and get a sense of the situation the community leader is in
- What is your initiative?
- Is your message internal (ie. sharing a vision) or external (ie. general public)
- Describe your role in fulfilling this effort.
- Are you looking to build a team?
- Are you bringing a community to the table?
- what % of your community is online?
- would you be willing to plug into an existing community?
- Describe your perfect community.
- State 4 important traits of the network/community you are building
- What communities have you led?
- How did you develop of this community?
- What challenges have you encountered through this process?
- Has your community captured key learnings anywhere? may we see them?
- Define reputation and credibility
- How would you describe your credibility? online? offline?
- How do you envision a member's credibility driving leadership efforts? (ie. declaring groups)
- Describe some activities your community would be engaged in day-to-day
- Is this a free for all?
- Would it be of value to integrate key learnings and introduce order into your community?
- Is there anything else you would like to share before we finish?
Scenarios
these serve as examples to drive use cases for the system under design
- consensus building
- proposal making
Design considerations
the intent of this section is to begin to break up the information ellicited from the community leader/activist and work towards a design
- configurations
- no frills, generic configuration designed to meet most needs
- advanced configuration (ie. http://itredux.com/blog/office-20/my-office-20-setup/)
- pre-built infrastructure with community (ie. omidyar.net)
- custom -- willing to invest time and energy into architecture & design
- permissions
- declaring/creating groups
Technical components
these come in during the implementation phase and strategic requirements are clear. technology components shall be interchangable to deal with the exponential rate of evolution!
- blogs
- calendars (shared)
- chat rooms
- content management systems
- email (servers & clients)
- file sharing
- forums
- instant messaging
- knowledge managers
- massively large online systems (ie. Second Life)
- newsreaders (RSS) BlogBridge
- newstrackers Aggregator2
- office suites (ie. OpenOffice.org)
- personal information systems
- personal organizers
- picture organizers (ie. flickr)
- podcasting software
- project managers
- search engines
- social networking platforms
- team workspace systems
- VoIP systems (ie. Skype)
- webcasting servers
- web page designers
- wiki software
- word processors (collaborative)