Lorea came out of the M15 movement, to fill a need for communication
during the first demonstrations in Spain in May 2011 and to link
assembleas around the world. It was a patched together solution that
went within days to tens of thousands of users (perhaps higher, numbers
would require a look up I don't have time for, sorry, hopefully someone
who works on it can give you an accurate background). It has been used
extensively in Spain and other parts of Europe and elsewhere for
networking, by the Indignados, Take the Square, some Occupy, etc. For
those who are not aware, the organization of the squares in Spain has
been an inspiration around the world and their methods and tools are
widely copied.
The number of users and the limitations of the technology are why most
of us are aware of it; it is a need to be filled. The lorea developers
are a team of volunteers who have done amazing work in assessing needs
and coming up with the solutions they are able, given the limitations of
time, expertise, etc. Some of us have been working on more ambitious
solutions for the future, the Global Square with Tribler to create a p2p
(currently android and PC) livestreaming and microblogging network that
meets the needs of this population, Secushare working with GnuNet, and
lorea themselves have implemented many new solutions which as Ale
mentioned are helping a lot.
I can only think maybe they are more known in Spanish speaking countries ...
(I am having trouble changing my display name on this list, for
transparency this is Heather Marsh, @GeorgieBC)
All the best,
Heather
On 12-11-07 2:45 PM, Eva Galperin wrote:
"Anyone familiar with who needs liberation and what technology they
require, is of course aware of lorea."
This statement is baffling and demonstrably untrue. This is certainly
the first I've ever heard of Lorea and I have not, to my knowledge, met
a single person who uses it.
When I go to read the website in order to get some idea of what this
tool/service might be and I read things like "...our nurtured army of
fairies will work hard on the experiments, assess the views of
inhabitants and will conjure spells that are necessary to make our
flowers grow increasingly connected and beautiful," I do not get any
clearer idea of what Lorea is, what it does, or who uses it.
If this list is missing out on some important new
security/privacy/social media tool that is being widely used for
organizing, that sounds like something people here might want to know about.
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Eva Galperin
International Freedom of Expression Coordinator
Electronic Frontier Foundation
[email protected]
(415) 436-9333 ex. 111
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On 11/7/12 2:25 PM, ttscanada wrote:
Anyone familiar with who needs liberation and what technology they
require, is of course aware of lorea, and that includes everyone I know
on this list. The new release looks great guys, thanks for all your
effort. :-)
All the best,
Heather
On 12-11-07 11:46 AM, ale fernandez wrote:
Hi
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 12:13:04 -0500
Nadim Kobeissi <[email protected]> wrote:
Either I'm a total idiot or this is the most pretentious website on the
Internet
There may be more options than the two you see at the moment.. :)
I'm certainly using it like mad since it came out, both bug finding as
well as actually filling in assemblies - I'm in an assembly run
cooperative and using lorea is really important as a shared place to
work, and I think in general it complements the in-person aspect of
assemblies really well.
All our groups get to share info and now with the new version we can
do a lot more sharing and organising of tasks and assembly outcomes..
Having the assembly module also gives us the ability to organise our
thoughts into objectives proposals and decisions, and make sure things
get picked up and hopefully resolved...
And if it's the language that got you, maybe it could do with a catchy
jingle like "the facebook for people to actually do stuff with".
The "nodal representation" isn't about the people using the network,
but the various physical nodes where people might get internet or
access to a mesh network, which then has a social networking service
(or whatever other services) being served from it so you can access it
even if the internet goes down but the mesh network stays up.
But please go to n-1.cc and check it out!
Ale
NK
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Alex Comninos
<[email protected]>wrote:
Lolwut?
On Nov 6, 2012 6:32 PM, "Anne Roth" <[email protected]> wrote:
News about Lorea https://lorea.org/
("Lorea is a project to create secure social cybernetic systems, in
which a network of humans will become simultaneously represented on a
virtual shared world.
Its aim is to create a distributed and federated nodal organization of
entities with no geophysical territory, interlacing their multiple
relationships through binary codes and languages.")
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Betreff: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove
Datum: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:12:17 +0100
Von: spideralex <[email protected]>
*The new distribution of Lorea is called Foxglove: Social networks of
the people and for the people!*
As part of the ACT! 2012 <https://lorea.org/assets/act2012>, Lorea
social networks have migrated to a new version called Foxglove
based on
the version 1.8 of Elgg free software <http://elgg.org/>. This new
distribution has several improvements regarding the design, usability
and stability of the networks and offer also new tools (the full list
can be viewed here
<https://n-1.cc/pages/view/1505323/lorea-new-distribution-foxglove>).
Among them there is a new module that allows you to design assemblies
agendas collectively, keeping minutes and highlighting decisions and
previous consensus. It also enables decision making either by majority
or by consensus, with the option of blocking decisions and modifying
proposals for decision. This wide variety of options is intended to
suit
the various decision making processes of groups engaged with
assamblearism, thus preventing the software of imposing its criteria
above collective practices. Other new options are customizing the
working environment, search box for groups contents, new images
galleries, improvements of the Etherpads (collaborative writing in
real
time) and the integration between fora and mailing lists (persons not
registered inside the networks will be now able to subscribe to groups
mailing list).
During the course of this November, Lorea's fairies will work into
refining the migration and complementing the documentation such as the
manuals in order to help people become familiar with the new
version. It
should also be kept in mind that Lorea are self-organized networks
where
all its inhabitants can engage with their development and gardening.
Lorea calls for collaboration in this joint project, first by being
patient with the potential errors that might occur occasionally during
the migration process, secondly, by testing the tool, reporting
shortcomings and making suggestions to keep improving (bugs can be
reported here <https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/929536/testers-elgg-18/>)
and in
third place by making diffusion of this new version (either by
publishing this news and/or giving talks and workshops). Donations are
also logically welcomed <https://n-1.cc/pages/view/14888/>.
*About Lorea*
Lorea means "flower" in Euskera and uses the metaphor of seeds to
refer
to each ones of its networks' planted in an experimental field
federated
".
The project stems from an informal group of people concerned about
security and privacy on the social web, providing from the field of
free
software and technological activism. It was launched during the 2009
Hackmeeting
<http://sindominio.net/hackmeeting/index.php?title=Portada>,
the annual gathering of hackers in the Spanish State. There two social
networks Digital Free Art and N-1 <https://n-1.cc/> converged and
decided to join forces to develop further social free, secure,
federated
and self-managed social networks.
ACT! 2012 is an action derivatived from the Barcelona Consensus
performed by an active citizenship, GLOBAL, simultaneously and with an
effective PARTICULAR result looking for social, political, economic
palpable transformation. For this purpose different organizations /
networks / groups have supported as ACT! 2012 Lorea and another
movement
(Ekta Parishad). The Nova-organization Social Innovation (driving
Consensus Barcelona) has awarded 4,000 Euros each organization to
carry
out its actions. Thanks to the support you
gave us the Lorea community have used this incentive to free
programmers
who developed the project. Also with ACT!, During days 27 to 2
September, we held a Hacktahon Lorea to outline the development of
assemblies, modules, feedback and suggestions and work together on
migration.
N-1.cc, Cooperativa.ecoxarxes.cat and Enekenbat.cc are already
migrated,
rest will follow soon
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