diff --git a/draft-funding-aplication-for-NLNET.md b/draft-funding-aplication-for-NLNET.md index 0b09201..58df781 100644 --- a/draft-funding-aplication-for-NLNET.md +++ b/draft-funding-aplication-for-NLNET.md @@ -42,21 +42,21 @@ You **can apply to compete in multiple calls** in the same round if your project **Organisation (max. 100 characters)** -The Open Media Network (#OMN) is a collective that builds and hosts standards-based, political/social software. We work toward the manifestation of a #KISS and #4opens grassroots web of trust. Keeping it human scale, we outline a human-understandable workflow used to then develop apps for real world use. We are agnostic with regard to the underlying technology and programming, as long as it is #4opens based. +The Open Media Network (#OMN) is a collective that builds and hosts standards-based political/social software. We work toward the manifestation of a #KISS and #4opens grassroots web of trust. Keeping it human scale, we outline a human-understandable workflow used to then develop apps for real world use. We are agnostic with regard to the underlying technology and programming, as long as it is #4opens based. **Country** UK/ Mauritius/ Nomad **General project information** -The project came out of us cats outreaching #ActivityPub to the EU and in my work. I am finding a digital hole in so many places that this code could fill, so it's time to make it happen. +The project came out of us cats outreaching #ActivityPub to the EU and in my work. We have been increasingly finding a digital hole in so many places that this code could fill; it's time to make it happen. Distilled, grassroots, radical governance is an ideal fit for the fediverse. We are developing a universal stakeholder model that is built up from this. -The working practice comes from 30 years of building from The Tyranny of Structureless tick box list LINK +The working practice comes from 30 years of building from ['The Tyranny of Structurelessness'](https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/openwebgovernancebody/wiki/The-Tyranny-of-Stuctureless---tick-box-list). -From the perspective of a radical, grassroots, social technologist this is distilled into a codebase, as a “permissionless” roll-out of frameworks for social groups to form and see/govern themselves. +From the perspective of a radical, grassroots, social technologist this is distilled into a codebase, as a “permissionless” roll-out of frameworks for social groups to form, govern and bare witness to themselves. -The work is based on [Sortition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition) and the [KISS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) principle. And [#4Opens](/LINK?). workflows. +The work is based on [Sortition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition) and the [KISS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) principle, as well as the [#4Opens](/LINK?) workflows to maintain the ethics. **Project name (max. 100 characters)** OGB (Open Governance Body) @@ -67,16 +67,20 @@ Please **be short and to the point** in your answers; focus primarily on **the w **Abstract: Can you explain the whole project and its expected outcome(s).** -The #OGB is not a traditional top down fight for power like the #mainstreaming agenda, rather it is a bottom-up grassroots fight for sharing power like many of the 20th century social movements that created the best in current mainstream. +The #OGB is not a traditional top down fight for power like the #mainstreaming agenda. Rather, it is a bottom-up grassroots fight for sharing power, like many of the 20th century social movements that created the best of the current mainstream. -The #OGB is a seed. "There is such a thing as society" - we need to build our tools for this anti "common sense" statement. +The #OGB is a seed. "There is such a thing as society" - we need to build our tools for this anti-"common sense" statement. -(The advantage of "governance" within the fediverse - which it needs if it is to become a part of our #openweb based society, that is essential for social change/challenges in the era of #climatechaos - is that there is none. This is a good thing.) +A truly #openweb society is essential for the social change and challenges that we are facing in the era of #climatechaos. +The major advantage of "governance" within the fediverse, is that there is none. This is a good thing. +Yet the fediverse is in need of "governance" if it is to become part of our #openweb based society - we simply need to redefine what it is to govern and be governed. +**[Is the above a poor re-wording?? Have I misinterpreted?]** The Fediverse comes from the "cats" of libertarianism and to a lesser extent anarchism without the (O). -(In this, we don’t HAVE to think how it fits into current working practices and current economics. Rather, people PUSHING these "common sense" solutions to the fediverse "governance" problems are a part of the problem, not a solution that might work. -To be "native" to the fediverse we need to use code to build "society". Organizing for SocialHub Community Empowerment has to be anti “common sense” in the same way that the fediverse itself is.) +In this, we mustn't think how to fit into current working practices and current economics. Those who _push_ "common sense" solutions to problems of "governance" within the fediverse are in fact a part of the problem, rather than a solution that has a chance of succeeding. + +To be "native" to the fediverse we need to use code to build "society". Organizing for SocialHub Community Empowerment has to be anti-“common sense” in the same way that the fediverse itself is. **Have you been involved with projects or organisations relevant to this project before? And if so, can you tell us a bit about your contributions?**