LibrePlanet: Conference/2009/OpenConferenceSchedule/librep

with John Sullivan

Libre Planet dev list, run by John and Fernanda Widen, also with working with Graziano, who is turing his local free software group into the first Libre PLanet group (based in Italy)

Productive social network site for free software activists.

Being an "umbrella" can be sort of tricky, being inclusive without compromising

We want to provide wiki space and a mailing list for groups that could use that but don't want to force people to change the tools they are already using.

Ad Bard is one way that we could help make it easy for groups to link their ad supported sites.

Thinking about the way that Facebook functions -- as a great place for news, event planning, affinity groups, etc.

We'd like to be not using sites like Digg, Reddit

Resource sharing; tools, tactics, flyers, FAQ's for different audiences,

Privacy settings important

Searchable by skillset, issue interest, geography

Mailman?? We'd want to make the communication customizable for the user by location and topic

Geographic stuff is important.

We need to incent people to add in useful info by giving them useful info return, incorporating feeds?

Let John know if you are interested in keeping tabs on this, and/or sign up for the mailing lists(s)