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Vinay Gupta

Next steps on Global Swadeshi 7 Replies

So Lucas and Thomas seem to think it's worth paying for the thing to continue to exist for the time being.I think the sensible migration strategy is to PhpBB. It's a simple, reliable, easy to maintai…

Started by Vinay Gupta. Last reply by Michael Maranda 1 day ago.

Chris Watkins

Feedback for Appropedia?

It would be great to hear about people's experiences with Appropedia - good, bad, disappointments, life-changing experiences. How you participate or why you don't.And if it's a really positive bit of…

Started by Chris Watkins Aug 27.

Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson

Ning communities can only stay if they pay? 25 Replies

"[Ning] has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts or migrate their networks elsewhere." Now what? Sourc…

Started by Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson. Last reply by Lucas Aug 19.

Vinay Gupta

Is Global Swadeshi useful? 29 Replies

Hi, all.I'm looking at Global Swadeshi and trying to make the arguments for keeping it going.The site has a bit of a weird history - it's really the last concrete thing that Lindsey Darby and I colla…

Started by Vinay Gupta. Last reply by Michael Maranda Aug 5.

gmoke

Tech@State

Video at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tech-state I learned of this series through Jan Chipchase, formerly of Nokia and presently with Frog Design, http://janchipchase.com/2010/08/the-state- pres…

Tagged: economics, cell, phones, information, money

Started by gmoke Aug 5.

Marcin Jakubowski

Open Source Ecology Update 1 Reply

We've been making good progress on the Economy in a Box - the infrastructure tools for post-scarcity, resilient communities. Our work focuses on the integration of flexible fabrication with resilient…

Tagged: ecology, source, open

Started by Marcin Jakubowski. Last reply by Lucas Jul 28.

gmoke

Northeast Biodiesel Groundbreaking August 3, Greenfield, MA

crossposted to dailykos.com, bluemassgroup.com, greenmassgroup.com, and eurotrib.com

Started by gmoke Jul 27.

David Matos

Mechanical Parametric Oscillator 6 Replies

Hi everybody. I just come up with this. Rotating cylinders Halbach array permanent magnets used as weights on a rotating pendulum and also used as the drive mechanism to change the centre of mass and…

Started by David Matos. Last reply by Sepp Jul 21.

Marcin Jakubowski

Economy in a Box

Friends,Here are some of our updates: Economy in a Box Presentation - latest on our theory and practice Juliet Schor discussing our work in her book, Plenitude Open Source Tractor prototype II beginn…

Tagged: press, drill, source, open

Started by Marcin Jakubowski Jul 8.

Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson

Flat-pack emergency home 10 Replies

Some may have noticed the "flat-pack emergency home tweet" from me this week (I know Lucas did). I talked to Vinay earlier today and here is a summary. The work around emergency shelter innovation is…

Started by Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson. Last reply by Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson Jul 1.

Latest Activity

I'd be happy to support any such effort. I have a test setup as well. I'm still assessing it's viability. Is the plan to migrate content? I'm shy wrt grou.ps in terms of whether a platform service option could go the way of Ning or could just disa…
yesterday
Chris Watkins added a discussion
It would be great to hear about people's experiences with Appropedia - good, bad, disappointments, life-changing experiences. How you participate or why you don't.And if it's a really positive bit of feedback, we'd really appreciate permission to us…
August 27
BuddyPress seems very cool... Probably the best solution if hosting ourselves. We now have it set up on a test server, at http://blogs.whatissustainability.org - feel free to play with it. Unless someone here wants to and is able to allocate time f…
August 27
Do any of you have thoughts wrt "BuddyPress" -- I was just looking at it as OneWebDay2010 is uing it to continue their grassroots effort
August 27
Chris Watkins and Clement Aigbogun are now friends
August 24
August 23
August 21
Clement Aigbogun is now a member of Global Swadeshi
August 20
Thanks, Thomas. That's great! Buying time will let us help from others, so the path is ironed out so to speak.
August 19
Hi there. Access is open now, either way. Perhaps it was a crazy thought, but I was seriously broaching the subject of merging the two communities. Perhaps it is crazy, but I thought this would be one way to bring the "costs" down. There's a "parti…
August 19
I am paying for a couple of months. So we can make a less hurried decision.
August 18
Try this address, Thomas. http://commons.peerforge.com/
August 18
Excellent Alex. I get No access on the details. I suppose I need to create an account.
August 17
Hello I just successfully migrated a Ning site to Drupal. It turns out it is a Drupal site you might appreciate, so maybe we can just merge your content in there too and we can all own it together in a collaborative manner? http://peerforge.com You…
August 17
Another thing to check - is it possible to do regular backups from grou.ps? You know, in case of meteor, strike, zombie apocalypse, a highly unlikely sequence of bad luck, or human stupidity :-).
August 17
Interesting, thanks. My thoughts on the options that have have been discussed in this forum: Grou.ps: A hosted/cloud service, so there is no installing or admin time on our part. IIUC it's also open source, which sits well with the philosophy of t…
August 16
mesnitu is now a member of Global Swadeshi
August 14
Building the world's first open source replicable permaculture village.
August 11
Filipe Miguel Carvalho Miranda is now a member of Global Swadeshi
August 11
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