[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Digital Rights Watch

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Smári McCarthy <smari at immi.is>
Date: 2010/12/18
Subject: [fcf_discussion] Digital Rights Watch
To: fcforum_discussion at list.fcforum.net


Hi all,

 During the FCForum we discussed the need for a database documenting
the digital rights situation around the world so that it would be easier
to get a perspective on what good, bad and ugly changes are happening.
Approaching issues from regional, country and topical levels and trying
to maintain some sort of at-a-glance overviews, using maps and such...

 Talking with Mayo a couple of weeks ago we came upon the name DiRiWa,
and since then I've purchased the domain (http://www.diriwa.org), gotten
1984 hosting (http://www.1984.is) to donate hosting to the project, and
rallied up a few people from various countries to contribute, including
a few people who were at the FCForum and participated in the discussion.

 It's already kind of mushroomed in scope, to a large part without any
intervention on my part... a Dutch organization a friend of mine works
at has decided to take on an intern to work on DiRiWa (and presumably
other related issues), and a few French hackerspaces have organized a
hackathon to improve the site's content. A lot of different people who I
mention this to have offered to contribute, although to date few have
found time to.

 I've compiled a small list of people from different countries, mostly
for me to know that these countries are "covered" in some sense, but I'd
say let slip the dogs of war and let's see what we can do to build it up.

 [the entire thing was waylaid a bit by my laptop dying quite violently
a little over a week ago. If I owe you e-mail or such, I'll try and get
to it eventually; or just ping me again. Assume my GPG keys to be lost
for now.]

 Initially I decided to simply go for MediaWiki as the back end, to
simplify everything. It would be nice to skin it somehow and develop a
visual identity, but that's outside my scope of skills. In due course
it'd probably make sense to replace MediaWiki with special purpose
software that does mapping and relational data storage in a more
sensible way, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

 But for now, DiRiWa is up, now it just needs content.

 Cheers,
     Smári



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