hi I am marking this article OT. I have given the reasoning of why I feel there is an element somebody might care to discuss in fosscomm list below though its OT
here is the article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell "If Martin Luther King, Jr., had tried to do a wiki-boycott in Montgomery, he would have been steamrollered by the white power structure. And of what use would a digital communication tool be in a town where ninety-eight per cent of the black community could be reached every Sunday morning at church? The things that King needed in Birmingham—discipline and strategy—were things that online social media cannot provide. " thanks -s why i made this post : ------------------------------- 1) Activism : want to make some social change - eg : freedom struggle - activists : hardcore activists - like Gandhi . 2) free software activism : activism specific to free software domain, eg : work against software patents, eg : activists : refer hall of fame in foscomm 3) internet activism : using mailing lists , twitter, facebook, for activism for social change 4) "cloud" - the role of cloud and freedom , privacy, security has also been recently debated by the free software community [ though security, privacy are not here http://fosscomm.in/Principles now and may be added in the future ] 5) free software activists use lists and the net for their campaigns - however the article discusses where the internet helps and where it doesnt - and how - working and discussing one to one is very important to create more activists - whatever the politics is :whether its free software or civil rights or the rights of tribal people 6) or maybe i am wrong in calling "free software" activism - politics and thats a separate debate for another list
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