Re: [LogiLogi-list] LogiLogi - some thoughts and Spanish translation

First of all, I'd like to thank you again for reading my mails and
making me questions.

On 9/26/06, Wybo Wiersma <wy...@lo...> wrote:
> First of all thanks for the translations! Now we have a mainpage in
> all major European languages!
>
> > I have many ideas that I'd like to share in order to learn more of
> > what others have to say and come up with better ones. I believe that
> > there is a need for a central project for organizing knowledge, or at
> > least the public part of it. The way I see things, for a project of
> > this magnitude, there should be a parallel development from the
> > software (that is also information) to the information inputs of the
> > system (users, editors, nature?, etc), and all of it should be free
> > and open, like the GNU development. This are just some short thoughts,
> > that I'm slowly putting together, but what I've got for sure, is how
> > something like this should begin, and that is, from some basic and
> > temporary infrastructure, where the community that will forge the
> > project could exchange ideas and define how the project will
> > eventually "start". The only thing that is needed for this to happen,
> > is to have clear ideas of the purpose of the project, goals, and some
> > policies. All this initial stones should be only to preserve the
> > project life and not to limit it, something like the GPL tries to
> > solve in the software.
>
> What exactly are your thoughts on this ? Do you have something written
> about this already ? Or could you explain in more depth in what sense
> it would be different from GNU development ?

Ok, when I talk about my thoughts, any of them could be included in
the GNU project/philosophy I believe. I didn't mean that my thoughts
where out of the GNU philosophy, in fact, I believe that the way that
Stallman started the project/movement/philosophy is the way to go, and
fully agree.

In any case, I'm not inventing anything, I'm just trying to put things
that already exists and I believe that working all of them together
would have a extra value.

I don't have anything written, concrete, yet, and this is mostly why
I'm writing to you and would like to exchange ideas in your project,
as I believe I'm headed in a similar path. I've written most of my
ideas in a personal wiki, more like a scrap book, and I could start to
get them straight and public in LogiLogi(Mantra?), as I would like and
really need to get feedback. I will give it a try in my LogiLogi page
(http://en.logilogi.org/HomE/BrunoSarlo)

>
> > I'm writing this to you because I found that we have some ideas in
> > common, and might be headed in the same path...
> >
> > I'd like to share with you some links that I've collected at my
> > del.icio.us account and read while researching about this types of
> > things, and there might be some of your interest.
> > http://del.icio.us/botum/free_information_research
>
> I am looking through them now. The article a Measure of Aggregate
> Syntactic Distance is quite unrelated to free information. I showed
> the page it is embedded in as an example...

Ok, I didn't read it yet, and that tag is to put together the readings
I find interesting and useful to what I'm looking for.

>
> The one on How do people co-create information environments? is quite
> interesting. And the Wikipedia essays are also quite an interesting
> read. And Raw Thought: The Techniques of Mass Collaboration: A Third
> Way Out is quite great, and exactly what LogiLogi tries to do.

I've been much interested in information merging as you could see.
I've been thinking about merging of information as a way of
"democratizing" POV, and I've been thinking about how a "semantic
diff" could work. Then, I got to your project, so you can understand
why I like it so much. Also, there is a big difference between
LogiLogi and what "I've been thinking", and that is, that I've just
been thinking, playing with ideas, and didn't got anything straight
yet, and your project is getting this things to real world.

>
> You also might add ESP, although I am quite sceptical about what they
> try to achieve, still they have a nice IRC-channel and some
> interesting ideas:
> http://blog.espnow.com/

I'll have to read this blog, I'm on the RSS feeds now. I also like a
lot Squareusher and obviously Richard D. James music ;)

>
> May I also invite you to join the LogiLogi mailinglist at:
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/logilogi-list
>
> (and if you agree I would like to post this message to the list
> and from there on continue our conversation in public)

I've replied to the mailing so to get in track.

>
> Wybo
>


-- 
Bruno