That’s a good mission statement, and very clear about the licensing*. I like the idea, but my question after reading this is…what kind of software are you trying to create?
Distributed, yes, scalable, yes, but perhaps we could have some examples. I’m curious what kind of software other people want, even though I write it. I tend to write what interests me, but that is very different than satisfying a wider need of what kind of software is desired.
At this year’s NSPW there was a nice paper on using software licenses to limit usage patterns that involve killing other humans. NSPW 2018 | New Security Paradigms Workshop
Their idea is a good one, but also needs nice place for software developers to hear about it.
Very cool, @hugi. How about we make this part of the company blog? All it needs is the blog tag and a picture (instructions, in section “1.3. How to post to the official blog?”).
This is probably of interest to @patrick_andrews, who has worked before about new forms of human organizing.
This year we’ll focus on tools and methods for participatory culture. One such tool is already being built, and its purpose is to be a sort of mix between an organisational chart, a task manager and a stakeholder mapping tool for those wanting to make a decision in a decentralised organisation or participatory event. It is called Realities, and it will be used to scale participation in governance and infrastructure work for the participatory event The Borderland in 2019. It’s live on a staging server in unfinished form here. Eventually it will share data with other systems used by the Borderland, including a web app called Dreams which we will also develop further in the Particip.io project.
We have a few other projects um the pipes this year. One is a guide to mobile AR development by @jakobskote, detailing how he developed a digital mobile exhibition on hybrid animals for the Swedish Museum of National History.
More will be added. I’m talking to a friend of mine tomorrow about quoting snippets of audio seamlessly in online conversation, and keep getting put in touch with interesting people with ideas slightly outside of what’s marketable.
As Participio progresses, I’d love to host exploratory events where we invite developers with a hunger for experimentation and fun paid projects together with organisations with unconventional challenges and see what we can dream up.
Done!
As one of the organizers of Kiez Burn, a 700-1000 people participatory event, inspired by the same principles as Borderland, I share the enthusiasm around this project. The platforms we use for event organization, not only support, but also shape our community, pushing us towards more or less participation and co-ownership. Participio’s vision-based approach is therefore a very welcome addition in enabling these community visions.
Feel free to include Kiez Burn in your roll-call. We are looking forward to test, co-create and implement.
I think I misunderstood at first. I thought the platform was for collaborative software development specifically (a community to make software projects), so my question was motivated with that in mind. I see now, it’s for participatory-collaborative anything, which makes sense. My input makes less sense now (licensing of software and such), so I’ll look through your works thus far, so I can ‘catch up’. Still if you are interested, there’s some cool new open source license ideas
Hey Hugi and everyone. This is an idea I support 100%.
I think we may want to involve organisations like the International Scout Federation. Starting with the Scouts in the Netherlands that it seems their current CEO has a fairly tech-friendly approach - I think they were somehow involved in/supported the CCC summer camp in the Netherlands last year (SHA). I can check with someone I know who heavily involved in the organising team for the annual congress (might be worth going to for good contacts btw).
Tools for artistic collaboration/co-exploration/co-making I think may have different requirements than those for e.g software development and or collaboration around “getting things done”. When communication is happening in different channels: touch, smell, sound, movement etc.
Also they need to to be both concrete and leave a lot of space for interpretation and translation into different media, and forms of expression.
Then there is the looming issue of how to deal with issues of authorship e.g - in part it comes down to value systems, but there are practical constraints also .
At my end I am exploring art collectives and art movements both previous and contemporary to get a sense of how this could work in that context. Will update you on what I find…
Also, perhaps individuals working with disaster preparedness response and relief in general via e.g mayors? Im thinking here about the ones that know they are going to be especially hard hit by natural disasters (or already are). A good bet is Asian cities - so we could maybe reach out to groups already active. In japan e.g an interesting organisation to connect with could be Seikatsu Consumer Coop.
@matthias and @natalia_skoczylas have some experiences of this…
Many of the efforts are run in a decentralised way by volunteers e.g squats and informal clinics.
Another one could be people working with caring for homeless, refugees etc tied to churches? @alberto once made a joke about Monks being great opensource contributors for obvious reasons 
This is super exciting @hugi et al!
I wonder whether http://app.autopo.co/ could be part of this somehow?
Hey! Nice to see you here Saw something about the space you got up and running. A visit may be due soon :))
Absolutely, that would fit perfectly. Let’s have a call soon, maybe this week?
I’m very interested. I run a volunteer community creating projects and mobilising people to create positive change where they live and bring a little more peace and well-being into this world.
Also realising the need to move away from Facebook in order to mobilise a community effectively, rather than just be followed, we began building our own platform 3 years ago (…well, 2 years in Blaze, then starting from scratch last year when Blaze kind of died).
We’ve finally reached the point where our community can begin transitioning away from Facebook, just a few weeks ago, and have been plugging Discourse into the platform to operate as the community building hub. In terms of project management we haven’t developed very far yet, basically just pulling in basic details from Trello, and then referring users there when they want to get active on project building. It’s not ideal, where would i find more info about Participio and is there a working model yet? it sounds like it might be exactly what we were planning to build for that part of the platform.
BTW, we’re also entirely volunteer. No funding, a few of the members chip in for hosting and everything else is entirely run on human kindness 
Cool, we re-purposed the platform i mentioned above for helping people who are homeless by strenthening community bonds, and providing access to effective ideas and free resources. Also disaster relief in the same way (disaster relief will only be targeted when the map print function is built).
perhaps there’s cross over an opportunities to work together
https//:brightertomorrowmap.com
Participio is not a software platform. Rather, it’s a network of developers and the software they build for participatory movements. Currently, we’re mostly focusing on culture and art simply because that’s where most of the interest of our community lies, and it’s also the are in which we have currently have some funding for development.
It sounds like you’re on the right track with what you are doing. What are you looking for?
Sorry, @hugi i misunderstood. I thought this was about building a more social, non webdev focused version of sites geared up for developers, like Github/labs.
In that case, i guess it seems like you’re building interesting tech projects here for positive social purposes. Us too, i’d love to hook into the network here.