[liberationtech] Plan for a New Liberationtech, 2.0
Jose Luis Mendoza Marquez
jluismendoza at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 08:17:45 PDT 2018
>From Venezuela receive with emotion an endorsement and a good time for your
admirable work. We are a small NGO dedicated to digital literacy and that
strongly believes that the internet has the opportunities we need as a
country to overcome our crisis. Years ago I am a member of the list
personally and I continue with emotion the evolution that they are living
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El vie., 7 de sep. de 2018 a la(s) 17:52, Peter Lindener (
lindener.peter at gmail.com) escribió:
> May I suggest that the new Lib tech wed site support a forum to
> support discussion about vote tallying methods. More explicitly, a
> properly moderated forum focused on proposal of methods based upon
> mechanism design's Revelation principle... such as to harden against
> strategic manipulation, instead incentivizing truthful (VNM_utility)
> preference ballot input.
>
> Since it is not uncommon for electoral method discussion forums to
> become congested with
> a fair amount of "social choice gobbledy gook" that could easily obscure
> the finer, more relevant issues properly addressed by way of Strategic
> Voting Game Theoretic Mechanism design..
> It would seem prudent to proactively structure this Voting Tallying
> method form such that a new reader, can more easily discern solid
> development in ranked choice voting system theory.
>
> Along the above mentioned form on (strategically automated) vote
> tallying methods.
> It might also be good to support discussions about Expertise leveraging
> forms of issue specific, individualized proxy rule based (liquid)
> representation.
>
> all the best
> -Peter
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 8:56 PM Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Below is the amended plan for the new Liberationtech based on your
>> feedback. Should you have any questions, please let me know.
>>
>> - *Corporate Governance: Fiscal Sponsorship, NOT Legal Status*. Most
>> of you recommended that we not incorporate legally as a 501(c)3 at this
>> time. Instead, you recommended that we use a fiscal sponsor instead. A
>> number of fiscal sponsors were proposed including Creative Commons; the
>> Electronic Frontier Foundation; Freedom House; the Free Software
>> Foundation; the Information Ethics and Equity Institute; Mozilla; Oasis;
>> the Open Source Institute; the Public Sphere Project; the Puerto Rico
>> Science, Technology, and Research Trust; the Renewable Freedom Foundation
>> in Germany; Software Freedom Conservancy; and Wikimedia. There is also the
>> Tides Foundation. The advantage of fiscal sponsors is that they can accept
>> charitable contributions on behalf of Liberationtech and take care of the
>> legal and accounting requirements needed to maintain the organization,
>> thereby freeing Liberationtech to pursue its vision and mission. We have
>> decided to find fiscal sponsors for different legal jurisdictions to ensure
>> that we have a global presence. [Down the line, the Sustainable Economies
>> Law Center was proposed as an organization to help Liberationtech
>> incorporate as a 501(c)3.]
>> - *Vision*. To research, design, and implement technologies for
>> social good, especially for privacy and security.
>> - *Mission*. To create and support a community of practice around
>> technology for social good that incorporates privacy and security by
>> design.
>> - *Hosting Service*. Most of you expressed concerns about hosting in
>> the U.S. and asked that Liberationtech use the most privacy- and
>> security-friendly legal jurisdiction instead. Most of you also
>> recommended Greenhost.
>> - *Website Design and Development*. Some of you kindly offered to
>> work on a pro bono basis to design and develop the Liberationtech website.
>> Others suggested contacting groups such as the Agile Collective, Aspiration
>> Technologies, CoTech, Digital Life Collective, Equalit.ie, and Greenhost
>> for these services. What should the website have? You asked that we keep
>> the Liberationtech website simple. Beyond a basic description and a list of
>> the board of advisers, you asked that we do the following:
>> - *Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)*. Most of you asked that we build
>> a site that is as simple as possible so that it may be viewed even by those
>> who have slow devices or weak bandwidth.
>> - *Just a mailing list, please*. Most of you also asked that we
>> only use open-source mailing list software that has been around for a long
>> time for convenience (i.e., you get the email in your inbox) or security
>> reasons and to make it easier for any list subscriber to download the list
>> or port it from one device to another.
>> - *Use Matrix and/or Discourse*. Enough of you feel passionate
>> enough about using Matrix and/or Discourse beyond the basic mailing list
>> capabilities that we've decided to do so.
>> - *Let me create my own list, please*. Many of you asked that we
>> allow list subscribers to create their own lists around specific subjects,
>> whether by chapter (read more below), geography, sector, or topic. For
>> example, some of you asked that Calls for Papers (CfPs), jobs, and
>> announcements be moved to separate mailing lists.
>> - *Make the site mobile*. Self-explanatory.
>> - *Mirror it*. Many of you asked that we mirror the site at a
>> number of locations for security reasons.
>> - *Incubation*. Because we've decided to continue to research,
>> design, and implement technologies for social good that incorporate
>> privacy- and security-by-design, we aim to raise funds to become an
>> incubator of technology for social good, where the funds would go to
>> support the development of projects based on the ideas the community likes
>> the most. We'll also try to incubate student projects on tech for social
>> good that could be sponsored by companies to help students get jobs
>> post-graduation.
>> - *Directory*. Some of you suggested that we create a wiki (or
>> similar) with tips, good practices, tools, and apps for secure
>> communication and digital privacy, along with a list of the organizations
>> and platforms that work in the technology for social good space.
>> - *Funding*. Some of you suggested that Liberationtech contact
>> foundations such as Omidyar and the Open Technology Fund. Others suggested
>> that Liberationtech engage in crowdfunding. Yet others suggested charging a
>> yearly fee for people to create their own Liberationtech chapters in
>> geographies around the world.
>>
>> One question that lingers is the following:
>>
>> - What is the key differentiator of Liberationtech vis-a-vis other
>> existing groups, organizations, and/or sites in the space?
>>
>> If any of you want to take a stab at answering the question, please do
>> so.
>>
>> Otherwise, Gonzalo and I will be more than happy to do a review of the
>> field and try to answer that question in a more explicit manner.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yosem
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