DREAM

What are we talking about:

Social and technical infrastructures
  • Hackerspaces
  • Git repositories
  • Chats Irc Forums etc…
  • Non profits and Commons networks
  • Life necessities thinking that maybe source of funding for a free conception of software can rarefy => Direct association with social centers might become necessary for survival.

What is this software we are talking about, what are the decision processes they refer to.

  • Main projects: (Frameworks Languages OS …)
    – Central decision processes
    – Central repository that is the reference point

  • Protocols
    – Engaging larger community decision processes embedded in existing capitalist economy
    – One source for the protocol, however implementations can superseed the protocol definition and transform its application

  • Librairies
    – Different scales engaging from the individual to the community and can be reused independently.

  • Softwares
    – Developped according to local and/or global needs
    – Can be redundant
    – Different decisional processes often relying on one main developer, bus factor.

Examples

  • Wikipedia
    – Creates a hierarchy that reproduces existing domination systems.

  • Existing hierarchical systems:
    – Debian Constitution system D example
    – oppositions: Devuan minority difficulties maintenance depending on external sources
    – Differences: Ach linux

  • Groups of common Interest
    – Different existing P2P projects
    – Different commons pojects