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ViaBloga 2006-10-16T16:26:56Z Join us for a chat on tagging and nonprofits gregoire Wednesday, May 31 at 9:00 AM PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/72.shtml 2006-05-28T14:44:53Z 2006-05-28T17:13:04Z ]]> BarCampParis le 10 juin 2006 gregoire http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/71.shtml 2006-05-25T15:41:15Z 2006-10-16T15:59:07Z ]]> Podcast: NetSquared: remix the web for social change gregoire From Odeo "A few quick updates about what s happening at NetSquared followed by Eddie Codel s interviews with JD Lasica of OurMedia.org and Venus Rodriguez of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Plus you ll hear a message from one of the WineCamp organizers, Tara Hunt of Riya.com and HorsePigCow" More info: www.netsquared.org powered by ODEO http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/70.shtml 2006-05-21T13:52:29Z 2006-05-21T13:52:29Z


From Odeo

"A few quick updates about what’s happening at NetSquared followed by Eddie Codel’s interviews with JD Lasica of OurMedia.org and Venus Rodriguez of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Plus you’ll hear a message from one of the WineCamp organizers, Tara Hunt of Riya.com and HorsePigCow"

More info: www.netsquared.org





powered by ODEO]]> Quand les geeks et les ONG se rencontrent dans un vignoble... gregoire L'idée est de reprendre le principe du BarCamp Chris Messina (aka factoriejoe), un des organisateurs qui a déjà participé au MicroBarCampParis, sera par le plus grand des hasards à l'UpFING' 06 début mai à Aix-en-Provence... L'idée d'un WineCamp français à cette occasion l'enthousiasme beaucoup : si certains ont des avis/idées à ce propos, l'envie de commencer un wiki WineCampFrance me démange... Pour les wikistes francophones : WineCamp sur CraoWiki Pour les anglophones : WineCamp sur Omidyar Network From the Bar Camp Blog "What do you get when you put a bunch of geeks, a bunch of do-gooders and a bunch of wine together for a weekend in California s Calaveras County? You get WineCamp ! WineCamp is an ad-hoc geek and non-profit gathering taking place at a lovely vineyard over the weekend of May 26-28th." "Our goal: to bring non-profits and technology together to improve the world around us and we thought that a nice place to do this would be on a vineyard." http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/67.shtml 2006-05-10T20:34:20Z 2006-10-16T16:22:18Z

L'idée est de reprendre le principe du BarCamp

Chris Messina (aka factoriejoe), un des organisateurs qui a déjà participé au MicroBarCampParis, sera par le plus grand des hasards à l'UpFING' 06 début mai à Aix-en-Provence... L'idée d'un WineCamp français à cette occasion l'enthousiasme beaucoup : si certains ont des avis/idées à ce propos, l'envie de commencer un wiki WineCampFrance me démange...

Pour les wikistes francophones : WineCamp sur CraoWiki

Pour les anglophones : WineCamp sur Omidyar Network

From the Bar Camp Blog

"What do you get when you put a bunch of geeks, a bunch of do-gooders and a bunch of wine together for a weekend in California’s Calaveras County?

You get WineCamp !

  WineCamp is an ad-hoc geek and non-profit gathering taking place at a lovely vineyard over the weekend of May 26-28th."

"Our goal: to bring non-profits and technology together to improve the world around us…and we thought that a nice place to do this would be on a vineyard."
]]> Tagging and social bookmarking for nonprofits gregoire http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/66.shtml 2006-05-08T18:48:46Z 2006-05-09T15:05:13Z ]]> Better World Microformats gregoire Tom Munnecke on Omidyar Network " I just ran across the Microformats web site. (Those who know me will recognize my attraction to all things "micro" or better yet, "nano"). Microformats define code that can be embedded in web pages to be interpreted by applications. For example: hCard format for exchange of user address information RelPayment is meant as a general way to facilitate acts of support, and thus this specification makes no assumptions on the type of support. It seems to me that this opens some interesting doors to a scalable model for better world activities, allowing folks to embed web pages to include Better World Opportunities and tracking information. For example, we might define a microformat to define Better World Opportunities which might include: tagging information to categorize it, a chain of trust specification to indicate who is recommending this opportunity, as well as their reputation and track record or commitments. links (or specifications) to the opportunity "flow," be it currency ("real" or complementary/targetted), matchings, pooling requirements, etc. link to a discussion thread about the opportunity link to the follow-up/feedback mechanism, allowing folks to understand what happened and how to do it better next time. link to an uplift pattern, describing the pattern(s) of uplift employed in this opportunities. This allows the pattern itself to get smarter over time, learning from its many specific instances. location of the opportunity (if any), allowing the opportunity to presented in a google mash-up ( for example, see the mockup of the Nano Finance Pattern map) Virtual world location, perhaps linking the opportunity to a place/group/activity on Better World Island in Second Life. The cool thing is that folks could identify their better world opportunities with a common format on their own sites, emails, tags, blogs, or whatever, and then aggregate them via RSS or ATOM. The flow activities would link back to the appropriate sources, and this would also open up a mechanism for large scale feedback at a fine level of granularity." http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/65.shtml 2006-01-22T22:03:08Z 2006-10-16T16:24:00Z  Tom Munnecke on Omidyar Network


" I just ran across the Microformats web site. (Those who know me will recognize my attraction to all things "micro" or better yet, "nano"). Microformats define code that can be embedded in web pages to be interpreted by applications. For example:
  • hCard format for exchange of user address information
  • RelPayment is meant as a general way to facilitate acts of support, and thus this specification makes no assumptions on the type of support.

It seems to me that this opens some interesting doors to a scalable model for better world activities, allowing folks to embed web pages to include Better World Opportunities and tracking information. For example, we might define a microformat to define Better World Opportunities which might include:

  • tagging information to categorize it,
  • a chain of trust specification to indicate who is recommending this opportunity, as well as their reputation and track record or commitments.
  • links (or specifications) to the opportunity "flow," be it currency ("real" or complementary/targetted), matchings, pooling requirements, etc.
  • link to a discussion thread about the opportunity
  • link to the follow-up/feedback mechanism, allowing folks to understand what happened and how to do it better next time.
  • link to an uplift pattern, describing the pattern(s) of uplift employed in this opportunities. This allows the pattern itself to get smarter over time, learning from its many specific instances.
  • location of the opportunity (if any), allowing the opportunity to presented in a google mash-up ( for example, see the mockup of the Nano Finance Pattern map)
  • Virtual world location, perhaps linking the opportunity to a place/group/activity on Better World Island in Second Life.

The cool thing is that folks could identify their better world opportunities with a common format on their own sites, emails, tags, blogs, or whatever, and then aggregate them via RSS or ATOM. The flow activities would link back to the appropriate sources, and this would also open up a mechanism for large scale feedback at a fine level of granularity."

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]]> Earthquake in Pakistan: THERE ARE NO EXCUSES! gregoire THERE ARE NO EXCUSES " There are no excuses. If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity. " Kofi Annan 19 October 2005 http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/63.shtml 2005-10-21T09:16:48Z 2006-10-16T16:26:56Z

THERE ARE NO EXCUSES

" There are no excuses. If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity. " Kofi Annan 19 October 2005

]]> First Light from Google "social entrepreneur" program [google.org] gregoire A few months ago I wrote "wait and see...." concerning: "We hope that someday this institution [the google foundation] will eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world's problems." - Sergey Brin & Larry Page Today the first Light helps for seeing! From Reuters: "Google officials said Google.org is partly modelled on the Omidyar Network (http://www.omidyar.net/corp/partners.shtml/), a new model philanthropy funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Frustrated by the limits of conventional non-profit philanthropy, Omidyar and his wife, Pam, have set up an investment group that looks to make businesses work as a tool for social good, a spokeswoman for the network said. "People in (Silicon) Valley are taking a bit of a different view of where they put their money," said Michelle Goguen, a spokeswoman for Redwood City, California-based Omidyar Network." See also: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/about-googleorg.html Via Tom Munnecke http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/62.shtml 2005-10-13T10:12:46Z 2005-10-13T10:12:46Z I wrote "wait and see...." concerning:

"We hope that someday this institution [the google foundation] will eclipse Technorati Tag World itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world's problems."
- Sergey Brin & Larry Page

Today the first Light helps for seeing!

From Reuters:

"Google officials said Google.org is partly modelled on the Omidyar Network (http://www.omidyar.net/corp/partners.shtml/), a new model philanthropy funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Frustrated by the limits of conventional non-profit philanthropy, Omidyar and his wife, Pam, have set up an investment group that looks to make businesses work as a tool for social good, a spokeswoman for the network said.

"People in (Silicon) Valley are taking a bit of a different view of where they put their money," said Michelle Goguen, a spokeswoman for Redwood City, California-based Omidyar Network."


See also: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/about-googleorg.html

Via Tom Munnecke

]]> Darfur: the status quo is not an option gregoire Full text By Dr James Smith 12 Oct 05 "Reporting back on his recent visit to Darfur , the Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Genocide Prevention has recommended that the Security Council invite the African Union to consider reinforcing the mandate of AMIS to make it more explicit with regards to the protection of civilians. In a statement on 10 October which should compel the UN Security Council to follow the Special Advisor s recommendation, the AU announced its decision to bring the situation to the attention of the UN Security Council." To read the Special Advisor's report, click here To read the AU communique, click here "A picture of deep concern regarding the situation in Darfur has been presented by Juan Mendez, Kofi Annan s Special Advisor on Genocide Prevention. Current policies of developed nations toward the crisis in Western Sudan appear to rely on there being a status quo in Darfur while a settlement between the Government of Sudan and the African rebels is reached through political mediation. This policy and dynamic must radically change, or Darfur will spiral into an even greater tragedy whilst we tinker on the sidelines. http://gregoire.viabloga.com/news/61.shtml 2005-10-13T06:15:48Z 2005-10-13T10:21:37Z

Full text

By Dr James Smith



12 Oct 05

"Reporting back on his recent visit to Darfur, the Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Genocide Prevention has recommended that the Security Council invite the African Union to consider reinforcing the mandate of AMIS to make it more explicit with regards to the protection of civilians. In a statement on 10 October which should compel the UN Security Council to follow the Special Advisor’s recommendation, the AU announced its decision to bring the situation to the attention of the UN Security Council."

To read the Special Advisor's report, click here

To read the AU communique, click here


"A picture of deep concern regarding the situation in Darfur has been presented by Juan Mendez, Kofi Annan’s Special Advisor on Genocide Prevention. Current policies of developed nations toward the crisis in Western Sudan appear to rely on there being a status quo in Darfur while a settlement between the Government of Sudan and the African rebels is reached through political mediation. This policy and dynamic must radically change, or Darfur will spiral into an even greater tragedy whilst we tinker on the sidelines. 

 

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