[p2p-research] Junto and a possible "social software stack"

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Wed May 26 12:38:10 CEST 2010


any article on junto woul be very welcome!

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Mark Petz <ravenwyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the open aspect of it. I like that there is a working model already.
> I FIND THAT adding in virtual currency and microfinance model are confusing.
> But maybe needed to fund it.
>
> I really think there is huge potential for money to be made on moving money
> around. If we can have global sims for phones - why not global banking? Why
> is it so hard for me to buy things in other countries when I do have the
> money?
>
> Paypal and visa costs too much for the service actually rendered.
>
> Although JUNTO is now on the way, what is the next steps? Getting people to
> adopt it means multiplatform use (Mac, Linux and Windows). Maybe also we can
> look at OLPC and see how they got wider use?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1
>
> I see that they also have some things that would fit in with our use of
> Junto. Why not put Junto on OLPC?
>
> M
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> dear Sepp, (or Franz)
>>
>> at some point when you have time, could you bring junto to the attention
>> of our readers, adding any comments of your own, such as Franz' proposals
>>
>> Venessa, don't hesitate to post something on Ning already yourself, I can
>> also easily facebook/twitter it for further attention,
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>   On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada at reflex.at>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Vanessa,
>>>
>>> I saw your posts
>>>
>>> http://emergentbydesign.com/2010/04/17/junto-is-born/
>>>
>>> http://emergentbydesign.com/2010/04/18/open-letter-to-tim-berners-lee-help-us-build-junto/
>>>
>>> I really like the basic idea of Junto and want to propose talking about a
>>> possible comnnection.
>>>
>>> You know there is a "stack" of applications that work together more
>>> seamlessly every day
>>>
>>> LAMP
>>>
>>> Linux
>>> Appache Mail Server
>>> MySql Database
>>> PHP Programming
>>>
>>>
>>> After tons of research on the replacement of NING, I see a quite similar
>>> "Social Open Source Software Stack" ahead that COULD work nicely
>>>
>>>
>>> JGEP  (->A Nice Toung Breaker)
>>>
>>> JUNTO  as a instant messages and chat tool with all the video and audio
>>> features that we like from skype but groupwise, built around wave IM
>>> style
>>> - for a-doc gatherings
>>> Groupserver as the best way to augment/replace mailinglists and
>>> yahoogroups - for diverse interests and low cohesion
>>> ELGG as sophisticated forum and Group Incubating Tool replacing NING
>>> including forum and blog functions
>>> PROWIKI (www.prowiki.org) as IMHO the best fractal wiki engine in the
>>> web
>>> with enormous structural potential. especially as collective authoring
>>> tool for sustainable HyperTexts (although Perl-based)
>>>
>>> just an intuition and a dream of mine. If we could connect them all we
>>> would have ALL what we need!
>>>
>>> (except, maybe, a CMS or so for the cool community window to the world,
>>> and a streaming community TV for thes ame purpose but thats a totally
>>> different story)
>>>
>>> Franz
>>>
>>> Franz Nahrada
>>> GIVE Forschungsgesellschaft
>>> Globally Integrated Village Environment
>>> Lab for Global Villages
>>> Jedleseer Strasse 75
>>> Vienna Austria
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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