No maps for these territories

Sometimes — generally when I should be doing something more productive, like sleeping — I like to think about big systems at scale, and the difference large numbers of people taking small actions would make on any given problem. It’s true that big systems can be made through small actions, a truth that has not [...]

This is the last week for the formal strategic planning process for the Wikimedia Foundation. There are three newish summary pages worth noting: An overview of movement priorities, which the project asks for help editing and refining A call for action, or continued involvement in the process And a page about the role of the [...]

My friend Liam Wyatt is the inaugural “Wikipedian in Residence” at the British Museum. He is there for a month (until Wikimania), and is building a program of outreach to the community and connections within the British Museum to improve Wikipedia articles related to the Museum and its contents. He hopes to make it a [...]

I am a candidate in the Chapter seat selection process for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. This is akin to an election, but it’s a closed process that works as follows. The community and chapters were invited to nominate candidates they thought should be on the Board (people could also nominate themselves). Then the the [...]

I haven’t yet read it … but Jessica Parker’s book Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids: Bringing Digital Media Into the Classroom, Grades 5-12 came out this month. Geared at educators, Parker’s book and online community is about how young people use social media and how to understand and help them with it. Here’s the table of contents: [...]

N.b.: blog comments are still broken here at No Maps. Open-source software doesn’t fix anything if you don’t know how to use it! N.b.2: post updated with a correction, & language clarified. __________________________ Today is the Day Against DRM, the Free Software Foundation (FSF)’s Defective by Design campaign day of action.  DRM stands for “digital [...]

Edit: this map of actions everywhere is amazing. The chant of the day here at UCD’s protests and marches — part of the California-based national Day of Public Education protests, held March 4, the locus of a grassroots uprising and protest movement that has quickly gained steam to include all public education institutions affected by [...]