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## Thematic call
**Contact information** witchescauldron@openworlds.info
**Contact information**
witchescauldron@openworlds.info
**Your name (max. 100 characters)** Hamish Campbell
**Your name (max. 100 characters)**
Hamish Campbell
**Email address** witchescauldron@openworlds.info
**Email address**
witchescauldron@openworlds.info
**Phone numbers** +4479365452
**Phone numbers**
+4479365452
**Organisation (max. 100 characters)**
The OMN is a collective, building and hosting standards-based socio-political software.
**Country** UK/ Mauritius/EU Nomad
**Country**
UK/ Mauritius/ EU Nomad
**General project information**
Working toward a #KISS and #4opens, grassroots web of trust. We focus on a human scale, outlining a human-understandable workflow used to develop apps for real world use.<br/>
We are agnostic with regard to the underlying technology and programming, as long as it is #4opens based. Currently we run 6 servers hosting public instances for the fediverse, including http://visionon.tv, a project running for over ten years.
We are agnostic with regard to the underlying technology and programming, as long as it is #4opens based.
The idea behind OGB came out of a practical need, from the experience of us fediverse "cats" outreaching #ActivityPub to the EU and from our long term work with on the ground horizontal protest movements.<br/>
We have become increasingly frustrated with digital holes in so many places that this code could fill; it's time to make it happen.
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The working practice comes from 30 years of on the ground building from ['The Tyranny of Structurelessness'](03.-The-Tyranny-of-Stucturelessness).<br/>
The codebase is a distillation of the perspectives of a radical, grassroots, social technologist; a “permissionless” roll-out for social groups to form, govern and bare witness to themselves.
The OGB is based on [Sortition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition), the [KISS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) principle and [#4Opens](Open-Media-Network/4opens/Home) workflows.
The OGB is based on [Sortition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition), the [KISS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) principle and [#4Opens](https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/4opens/wiki) workflows.
**Project name (max. 100 characters)** OGB (Open Governance Body)
**Project name (max. 100 characters)** OGB (OpenWeb Governance Body)
**Website / wiki** https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/openwebgovernancebody/wiki/Online-governance-
**Website / wiki**
https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/openwebgovernancebody/wiki/
[Application Note]
Please **be short and to the point** in your answers; focus primarily on **the what and how**, not so much on the why. **Add longer descriptions as attachments** (see below). If English isn't your first language, don't worry - our reviewers don't care about spelling errors, only about great ideas. We apologise for the inconvenience of having to submit in English. On the up side, you can be as technical as you need to be (but you don't have to). Do **stay concrete**. **Use plain text** in your reply only, if you need any HTML to make your point please include this as attachment.
**Abstract: Can you explain the whole project and its expected outcome(s).**
As a socal codeing project 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, as found in many of the 20th century social movements that acturly created the best of the current mainstream.
As a socal coding project 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, as found in many of the 20th century social movements that acturly created the best of the current mainstream.
To facilitate the forming, communication and decision-making of communities, at all scales. The OGB code douse not impose a singular agenda, but rather provide tools to organise.
We facilitate the forming, communication and decision-making of communities, at all scales. The #OGB code does not impose a singular agenda, but rather provides tools to organise.
The #OGB is a seed, "There is such a thing as society" - we need to build our tools for this anti-"commonsense" statement.
The #OGB is a seed - "There is such a thing as society" - we need to build our tools for this anti-"commonsense" statement.
Life and society are chaotic. We build tools that seek to harness rather than fight the chaos.
Life and society are chaotic. We embrace the inherent messiness of human collaboration (particularly as scale increases), and build tools that facilitate communal processes, rather than attempt to impose order.
in protest campes the people who take descions are the people who walk in from the street, we use sortation (LINK) to being this value to the #OGB.
In protest camps the people who take decisions are the people who walk in from the street; we use sortition to bring this value to the #OGB.
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. We take our working practices form years of practical lived expirence.
The major advantage of "governance" within the fediverse, is that there is none.<br>
Yet the fediverse is in need of "governance" if it is to become part of our #openweb based society. We are helping to redefine what it is to govern and be governed - it's #nothingnew, yet still to be achieved. We take our working practices from years of practical, lived experience.
The Fediverse comes from the "cats" of libertarianism and to a lesser extent anarchism without the (O). 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.
The Fediverse comes from the "cats" of libertarianism and to a lesser extent anarchism without the (O). 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. We are proposing a solution that has a chance of succeeding.
We aim to shape things such that to be "native" in the fediverse means to use #4opens code to build "society" up from the roots.
To be "native" to the fediverse we need to use #4opens code to build "society" from the roots.
**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?**
Remember the project comes from the life time lived expirence of actavist culture, we are codeing a importent/hideing part of our socierty. We as a team have been at the hart of organising these events for generations, back to my granparents. Social change groups have worked in this way to challenge and change power structures on the ground. Some examples of Social change groups: from squats, protest camps, climate camps; to indymedia, Reclaim the Streets; to XR and even Occupy.
The project comes from the life times of lived experience of activist culture. We are coding an important/hidden part of our society. We as a team have been at the heart of organising these events for generations, back to my grandparents.<br/>
We have been involved with social change groups from squats, protest camps, climate camps; to indymedia, Reclaim the Streets; to XR and even Occupy.<br/>
Rainbow Gatherings are a working example of this grassroots governance. They have been going on for 50 years and the core is still based on the founding traditions which came from the Vietnam War - not the hippy dippy origins that people talk about.
All our team have worked in social tecnolagy for there carrears.
All of our team have worked in social adaptation and technology for there careers.<br/>
Currently we run 6 servers hosting public instances within the fediverse, including http://visionon.tv, grassroots journalism running for over ten years.
**Requested support**
developers and stage one rollout and testing, we will be looking for futher funding to build stage 2
Development and stage one rollout and testing. We will be looking for further funding to build stage two.
**Requested Amount max amount** 50K
 ** (in Euro)
Explain what the requested budget will be used for?
**Requested Amount max amount (in Euro)**
50K
BUDGET 50K euros this will be paid into https://opencollective.com/open-media-network.
**Explain what the requested budget will be used for?**
4 people will be paid to work on the project at a fixed rate of ten thousand euros for 6-9 months work, invoiced at the end of specific milestones. The remaining ten thousand will be used for servers, expenses, outreach work and company upkeep.
This will be initially paid into https://opencollective.com/open-media-network.
It will be used to pay 4 people to work on the project at a fixed rate of ten thousand euros for 6-9 months work, invoiced at the end of specific milestones. The remaining ten thousand will be used for servers, expenses, outreach work and company upkeep.
The project team includes:
* Tom - programming manager, coding, UX
he has 30 years of expirence of development and project management
has 30 years of experience in development and project management
* Sanders - programming, sysadmin
has keept the 6 OMN servers online for the last 6 years and have been involoved in #OMN codeing projects
* Saunders - programming, sysadmin
has keept the 6 OMN servers online for the last 6 years, has been involoved in #OMN coding projects and is a permaculture designer/teacher working on grassroots social aid
* Hamish - project management, outreach, and testing social use.
has 30 years expirence of runnning grassroots social tech projects, and has a firm grasp of what duse and duse not works and what needs to work.
* Hamish - project management, outreach, and testing social use
has 30 years experience of runnning grassroots social tech projects, and has a firm grasp of what does and does not work, and what needs to work
* New coder to be found - programming
we need a soled "actavist" coder to widen the OMN clecctive, to build sustanabilert and keep up levels of support on going.
we need a solid "activist" coder to widen the OMN collective, to build sustainability and keep up levels of ongoing support
social outreach and testing/feedback, is core to the codeing, the project is developed as it is used.
Social outreach and testing/feedback; this is core to the coding. The project is developed as it is used.
**Does the project have other funding sources, both past and present?**
it comes from the grassroots, so no, but to make it real will take some resources thus the grant application.
it comes from the grassroots, so no, but to make it real will take some resources hence the grant application
(If you want, you can in addition attach a budget at the bottom of the form)
**compare your own project with existing or historical efforts. **
**Compare your own project with existing or historical efforts**
Foundation funding agenders oftern have a bad affect on openweb projects agenders. lets brefly look at some projects https://decidim.org is #NGO process this like https://www.loomio.org has, as offline process, been imposed lots of time in activism and has always failed. Formal process is a BAD tool for "herding cats" in social chalange/challange groups.