What is the spark and story that will draw people to this site. What will draw other people like us and those that will need to be around us. Who’s story is important?<\/p>\n
This discussion included some thoughts on the roles of publishers and the resistance to the publishing enterprise. We are saying that human knowledge is not, finally, a commodity.<\/p>\n
To what degree will this be a site that facilitates a conversation in addition to static content?<\/p>\n
Can we signal in the story that we have a community that values this flow and sharing? We will have to start with something. We have some concrete communities that need<\/i> this, can we pull together the content and embody it in this new space. The effort is already underway.<\/p>\n
We intend to create a community in which there is mutual respect, but we won’t eliminate all fears and tensions from the site or the community. We can be a place where all voices can speak up and be heard. We have to understand that we are talking about power, this wide open space may be threatening to some, all may make contributions.<\/p>\n
Could we combine the resource we are creating with a series of workshops that help folks (especially in communities like the Latino community) combine the heart with these materials and what we can do with it. This echos the notion of apprenticeship and the accompaniment that model implies.
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\nBrainstorming ideas…<\/b><\/p>\n
sharing<\/p>\n
creativity<\/p>\n
border-crossing<\/p>\n
common longing for the divine<\/p>\n
word of God to the people<\/p>\n
work of the people<\/p>\n
stewardship of ideas<\/p>\n
solidarity, not what those in power can do for, but only happens when the poor ask you to do, power sharing<\/p>\n
transfer of power, publishing house cannot do that because they don’t share the power<\/p>\n
non-capitalistic<\/p>\n
micro-sharing of curricular ideas<\/p>\n
adaptation<\/p>\n
development of story telling<\/p>\n
allowing others to reuse your ideas without asserting control over their expressions of those ideas<\/p>\n
mapping the flow of the story, so that as sharing and transformation happens the heritage of ideas can be discerned<\/p>\n
it is God’s problem to defend orthodoxy, not ours<\/p>\n
allowing stories that would otherwise never be told<\/p>\n
everyone’s story is important<\/p>\n
open to raw and rough source, no need to be polished and ready to publish, open to ideas in early form<\/p>\n
help authors take their own rights seriously in appropriate ways, opening themselves to fostering further creativity while protecting themselves from commercial exploitation<\/p>\n
mutuality & responsibility as we lower the gate-keeping threshold<\/p>\n
seamless connection between community and media, see the microcinema movement that shows wonderfully raw material shown in church basements and on youtv<\/p>\n
begin with a kernel of value that expresses what the site is<\/p>\n
we need to do some monitoring of content<\/p>\n
we stay poor (may help lawyers stay at bay)<\/p>\n
speak the open access message in a christian dialect<\/p>\n
an apprenticing community, which implies a governing authority who holds the boundaries on the common story, the apprentice plays and learns, but masters must help enforce the boundaries<\/p>\n
we must take a stand in our story about the right to use published work and the responsibility for comments shared (liability issues)<\/p>\n
human knowledge is not, finally, a commodity<\/p>\n
we are talking about free as in freedom, not free as in beer… free as in freedom does not mean we can’t make money (see the audio versions of Free Culture as example)<\/p>\n
this is the start of our story, not the end, we can be ok with the ambiguity of our position, throw out to the world what we have and let the world play with it (and maybe even take it in a surprising direction)<\/p>\n
work with programmers so that we do something creative in making connections and sharing, software that is robust enough to really grow with the community and allow for participatory sharing<\/p>\n
this is a wide open space, if some are uncomfortable with what can be found here, then they may also contribute to it and draw it into a new direction<\/p>\n
provide roles beyond authorship (such as reviewing and mediating) that allow those without freedom to express their voice still have an influence on the site, there are many ways to be the masters shaping this gem<\/p>\n
this is theology, faith seeking understanding<\/p>\n
this is a real exercise in not knowing in advance what the answer will be, it could even end up to be an indictment of us (liberals!), and this is open to that potential<\/p>\n
we help communities use<\/i> the material that we provide, the excitement of the community of practice that can grow up around this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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