Open drafts

These are works in progress about which I very much welcome feedback—just please don’t quote from or cite them until they’re published.

• Preludes to a Protocol Society

Open projects

These are ongoing projects that support research and organizing efforts.

• Classroom Kudos – a mutual reputation system for acknowledgement among students with Google Drive
• CommunityRule – a governance toolkit for great communities
• Modpol – a governance system prototype for the multiplayer game Minetest
• Protocol Bicorder – a diagnostic tool for the study of protocols in the wild
• Protocol Oral History Project – interviews with protocol designers, stewards, and subverters

Open notebooks

These are places where I gather notes from ongoing projects. They may or may not be useful to anyone else.

• School – Syllabi and other course materials
• Zotero – Bibliographic repository

Open software

I see using free, libre, open-source software as an integral part of how I do the work of contributing to the knowledge commons. These are some of the tools and communities that I work with:

• Cloudron – Manages the self-hosted cloud tools we run at the Media Enterprise Design Lab (not entirely open source)
• DokuWiki – A simple wiki platform based on flat text files, which I use for my syllabus repository
• Jitsi – Web-based audio/video conference software
• Manjaro – Linux-based operating system that makes the Arch family accessible for civilians
• Markdown – A markup language for writing documents in plain text, capable of exporting to a bewildering range of formats with Pandoc
• Mastodon – My go-to social network, which I access through Social.coop
• May First Movement Technology – Social-justice oriented web hosting and cloud services through a member-governed cooperative
• Mozilla – Developer of such essential tools as Firefox and Thunderbird
• Neovim – My primary text editor, descended from vi, first released in 1976
• Nextcloud – A cloud-services platform that keeps you in control of your data
• Pandoc – Document conversion tool (markdown -> everything) created by a philosophy professor
• Reveal.js – Pretty HTML slides
• Riseup.net – Online communication tools for people and groups working on social change
• System76 – A Denver-based manufacturer of open-hardware, Linux-based computers and the Pop!_OS operating system
• Wallabag – A self-hosted read-it-later platform with accompanying smartphone apps
• WordPress – The blogging platform that, thanks to a vast developer community, can now do pretty much anything else
• Xfce – Lightweight desktop environment for GNU/Linux
• Zotero – Essential bibliography manager that works well with Pandoc

For more on my rationale, see this interview with LinuxRig.com and this essay for The New Republic.