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.
    • See Above The Chaos, Curating Solutions To Build (Or Rebuild) Life And 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

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