Aware that fediverse threads can be ephemeral and hard to find later, I wanted to record a discussion I had with @davemosk@mastodon.nz and Aimee, brainstorming a successor to the NZ Commons group blog, under the working title openeverything.nz.
The vision for NZCommons, as I understood it, was to tell stories about the people and projects in this country contributing to the digital commons. Whether that’s Free Code software and open technical standards, creative and reference works licensed under pro-sharing licenses like CreativeCommons, Open Harmware tinkers, people working on Open Access and Open Data, kiwi teams contributing to global commons like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, and so on. With the goals of giving this work more exposure, helping people find projects to join or contribute to, and facilitating new projects and cross-project collaborations to gain critical mass.
The most important thing needed for a group blog - and often the hardest to get - is writing. So if you’d consider writing a piece about your project or one you admire, please get in touch! We’ll also need someone willing to offer pro bono hosting for the blog (maybe using something like Ghost?), or to fund commercial hosting for it. A graphic designer to make it easy to navigate and pleasing to look at would be most appreciated too.
I’ll be travelling as usual over the summer, but I’m keen to start doing some serious logistical legwork on this when I’m back in the studio, sometime after WOMAD. In the meantime, if you think this sounds like a good idea, please spread the word!
