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Friday Morning


Save Raveoke

This workshop concluded with Live [Prancercise]

Open Source Low Tech Appropriate Alternative Infrastructure

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Wild Food Walk

Edible plants found:

- St. Johns Wort - Cowslip - Thistle - Red Clover - White Clover - Mallow - Coltsfoot -


Minislots

Antibody tools network

How to deploy pgp encrypted email in an organisation 20+ people

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Strawberry TARTS

TEDx preview about computer re-use and repair


PRISM and the dark side of the net

will cover the whole internet and what it all means

Creating Wordpress blogs for communities - a network approach

Things to do for network 23 (and example wordpress community).

  • Plug in audit
  • Themes audit and search for new ones.

=== Wordpress networks for communities

Christian talked about Commons in a box. Facebook like install with Buddypress http://commonsinabox.org/ This needs a multinetwork install of wp

Network 23 - C says don't upgrade yet until UTF8 table conversion is sorted out - as for Networks will

Interesting project which has enhanced tracking of the conversation surrounding your posts https://indiewebcamp.com/Bridgy

Calendar: A good plug in is Event Organiser - https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-organiser/

Suggestion - Take out custom CSS manager - this is probably too much

Jetpack - has a good carousel - and you can take out the link to wordpress.com via a constant Generating good metatags - etc

Subscribe to comments - (plugin to help track conversation streams)

Multilingual - replacement for exising qtranslate - https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/multilingual-press/ (may not be suitable)

A good theme - Scrawl


Saturday =

Secure Your Phone

The slide notes, including apps, is at https://github.com/foobacca/secure-phone-talk

Collaborative Writing, online tools and offline practices

List of tools identified

  • google docs
  • etherpad
  • comment press
  • everpad
  • Crabgrass
  • booktype
  • wikibooks
  • gitbooks
  • readthedocs

Some of the people there and thoughts

Mark – has done collaborative writing with local groups using etherpad - The development of Cryptoparty manual has been interesting - different directions – moved onto github – they were then merged. Christian - Comment press – annotation of wp posts. Different tools vary in their use. Rich – Bristol wireless website was a wiki – this has been edited and improved by other users – google docs another tool Frederica – collaborative editing of a book previously - wikis could be useful to replace paper based collaboration. Widening involvement. Brent – a more activist friendly google docs would be useful – saving and importing from word docs is often needed – low entry no password is good. Libre office is coming up with an online set up. Micaela interested in collaborative writing from publishing background Michael - as above Pheadra – invites us to a book sprint on the plight of the bumble bee children's book. Loukas - - involved in a visual communication coop – writing policies collaboratively Scotty – bits of collaborative writing for green tech also on policies. Using crabgrass and another wiki and everpad. Also interested in documenting workshops. Darren – etherpad, but there are issues working with online tools like that.

Mick gave a presentation on Booktype and Booksprints. Some of those notes are up online here. http://blog.clearerchannel.org/2014/06/17/booktype-ebooks-learning-platform-future-cetis/