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There are obviously differences, which should be made clear.

Also related to #3, where it might be interesting to consider if we talk about free software movement, or rather FOSS/FLOSS.

Looking at the work in the questions branch, which I haven't been aware of up until today, reveals extended perspectives on the proposed book chapter living in master. It is yet to be answered if this interview represents another chapter, or will have to influence the original text.

The questions already offer a guideline to formulate a narrative. Then the ends of

• https://github.com/gandhiano/technology-degrowth/blob/questions/movement/3_relation_to_degrowth.md and
• https://github.com/gandhiano/technology-degrowth/blob/questions/movement/4_proposals.md

suggest to extend the storyline in so far, that a degrowth perspecitves on technolgy usage can neither be found within an imaginatory escapism, as selected populations are users of connected devices anyway, nor within an abundant distribution of ubiquituous connectivity.

Especially hybrid on- and offline multi-device workflows and usage patterns are of high importance to requirements selection for community infrastructures.

@gandhiano Where should this be integrated, as an answer to the questions or within the chapter's text?

@zenodo offers DOIs for tagged and linked GitHub repositories. One will want to make use of it.

The text needs to be translated in German. The character limit for the German version is 25000.

@Eyerin and @almereyda offered to do the translation. This is being done on the "deutsch" branch

that prohibits any commercial usage of it. It's success was so immense that most of the world wide web, as well as a huge number consumer devices - from Android smartphones, to TomTom GPS - are built on top of the Linux Kernel.

It is strange that it prohibits commercial usage and is used by TomTom which is not F/LOSS :)

The ongoing debate on decentralization and federation of data, platforms and infrastructure is one with an immense bridging potential between the movements. The ideas of federation, as well as those conveyed in some of the blockchain critiques, are particularly interesting for a convergence of discourses and praxis (q4).

Here are a few links I have been reading for this purpose:

• https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/socialisme-ou-barbarie-castoriadis-project-individual-collective-autonomy-collaborative-commons/2016/05/20
• https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/can-cryptocurrency-blockchain-technology-play-role-building-social-solidarity-finance/2016/04/01
• http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Blockchain#The_key_questions_about_the_blockchain
• https://english.lasindias.com/blockchain-is-a-threat-to-the-distributed-future-of-the-internet
• http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-miners-ethereum/

The web plays a central role in the critique and argument made along the chapter. There should be 1-2 paragraphs in question 1 2 describing the emergence of the web and its' key ideas (q1), as well as its' protagonists (Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, etc.).

Other ideas:

• reference to the essentially open source stack of the web
• institutional development of the web (e.g. "commercialization" after 96, corporate platforms and clouds)

The contents of the movements folder is best concatenated into the root README for easier readability.
As a bonus, this may involve an automatically generated [TOC], generated from the headline hierarchy, at some point. (See CAPS.)

Also see http://patterns.wiki.transformap.co/view/welcome-visitors/jon.patterns.wiki.transformap.co/welcome-visitors/jon.patterns.wiki.transformap.co/resources/jon.patterns.wiki.transformap.co/federated-wiki-resources/kate.au.fedwikihappening.net/hospitality-journal/kate.au.fedwikihappening.net/first-violence-to-foreigners/frances.uk.fedwikihappening.net/hospitality-and-hostility-to-technology

via https://vector.allmende.io/#/room/!aXENcesKzjdbVjfYlh:matrix.org/$1464738043123NvUqg:matrix.allmende.io

The last revisions between the editorial team and myself took place over non-web documents (LibreOffice). As such, the source here is no longer up-to-date.

I did not add these revision documents to this repo due to the risk of disclosure of private information (Word metadata, etc.), but ideally they should be added as well after scrapping the metadata.

Describe what type of collectives, organisations, etc. operate in the free software movement nebula. This should form a short introductory paragraph for section 2.

• Richard Stallman, GNU, FSF
• Linus Torvalds and Linux
• EFF
• CCC
• Foundations (e.g. Shuttlewort, NLnet, ?)
• ...

The texts are getting longer and longer, there is always so much to tell.
Synthesis is an art of good writing and a requirement to get the article in.

Until Monday the article needs to be ready, and be under 22000 characters in the English version; 25000 in the German one.

I miss a clear definition of the "we" for the text. I have for now written "free software movement", because it's concrete and addresses most of which is written here. On the other hand, I am afraid it is too focused on the software and missing some of the ideas of stacktivism, getting control and shaping the digital infrastructure where we run as a whole.

Would like to hear opinions here.

@pierreozoux @almereyda