Introduction To Collective Notetaking and Wiki
- One of our core competencies should become Collective Notetaking using open source tools, which we then load into the LIONSBERG Wiki, which acts as our Collective Memory.
- Collective Notetaking creates the superpower / ability to capture all relevant information from many people and perspectives all at once as events occur.
- Millions of people are using this technology for software development.
- We are leveraging those deep capabilities, by attempting to make it as technically shallow as we can while gaining a lot of capability.
- Reason we are not using Google Docs and Google Sites
- Get more done faster
- Scales much bigger
- Not on proprietary and therefore cancelable third party software
- Failure modes of large platforms
- Google decides what is allowable and can make the decision to shut you out.
- Government decides what is allowable and can make the decision to shut you out.
- Acquisition... future acquiring company makes a decision
- Solar storms take out electronics...
- Natural disasters take out electronics...
- This technology does not require a functioning cloud - this is a super critical design element for certain parts of the Lionsberg platform. In particular our collective memory.
- It does not require internet...
- If the entire internet falls down... everyone has a copy of the whole wiki on their computer... which will contain the complete plans, specifications, and solutions for how to rebuild or advance society.
- If many computers broken due to solar storm or war - everyone has a copy of the entire thing...
- can rebuild in local community even without reaching the rest of the world.
- we are building security from collapse or attack type scenariors.
- The markdown file can be easily downloaded for a local copy and is accessible in the wiki
- There is a pattern of moving between HackMD and the faces as suits the pattern of the meeting and the need of the group and the issues.
- HackMD and markdown allows the cooperative, collaborative thinking in real-time.
- Another mode for writing a document is asynchronous typing directly on the wiki (Obsidian) and this will allow links and more.
- Why not Google Docs?
- More decentralized
- different tools can collaborate
- More cancel / war / solar flare resistant
- We already have simple tools like word etc yet these don't help with connection
- another level is to use notepad or text editor
- Obsidian is another option which uses markdown and connects to Wiki
- Same tech can be used for personal writing, knowledge management
- Two parts of wiki
- One - cohesive and fairly architected content
- Two - free form, group knowledge individual perspectives on Lionsberg / Meta Project etc.,
- Also - a PROCESS for moving from individual blogs up into the group brain part of the wiki.
- Think of the more fluid section to be a scaffold to develop material to bring to more formal architected section
- There is a social process for accepting content to transfer
- How do we comment on the core material - TRANSFERED TO ISSUE TRACKER
- This will likely be branching and issues...
- longer comments can be put in your own wiki and then addressed as there is a link
- What is compatible?
- The simplest things like notepad... important because it helps in dire situations
- Obsidian gives you a lot more power, but is not necessary