Hello,
This message is especially for wikipedia users that would be close to
Metz in july (9/10/11)
http://wiki.ael.be/rmll2003
while the 3rd Libre Software Meeting will take place.
With libroscope team, we are leading a topic on
« Le libre, au-delà du logiciel (Extending Free Software principles
beyond the IT sphere) »
http://wiki.ael.be/rmll2003/index.php/FreeSoftwareBeyondIT
I am looking for a wikipedian speecher for this theme.
As a lurker^H^H^H chaotic contributor to wikipedia there are a lot of
points that makes me think wikipedia is legitimate on this point :
- sharing the knowledge using mechanisme closed to libre software
methodology (letting anyone contribute and using peer review)
- benevolent dictatorship model (Hi jim) with trusted lieutenant (like
youssefan, alvaro, aoineko, ant ... for the one I know) ;
- focusing on user and the ease of use rather than technology ;
- making contributor have good practice by social engeneering
(discussion, NPOV..) rather than with software implemented rules.
- web/email centric coordination (the virtual roof)
- from Kaos Management to Knowledge Management ;)
- a living proof wiki technology can give large scale structured website
:) : you don't need complex technology to build large KM database.
The last point is the one I really like :
focusing on peopleware seems to be a far better approach than focusing
on a pure technological approach to build such a large scale project.
Anyone interested, and available ?
I have missed some points I know, and I would be glad to discuss it with
you.
PS as a matter of fact, I guess that wikipedia is such a rich project
that it could be appropriate to do more than one speech :)
As an individual I would be really interested in a conf on the
architecture and the technological aspect though it is not the topic I
work on.
PPS je parie que ça va se terminer à pas d'heure au bistro encore :)
--
Julien Tayon
http://www.tayon.net/ http://libroscope.org/
Si la vérité est une femme, essayons de la séduire avant de la saisir.