Projects

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[edit] NYCGA Technology projects

Main page: Technology Operations Group.

The TechOps Group is bottom-lining many initiatives, and maintaining online assets for Occupy Wall Street including:

[edit] Occupy.net Technology-Based Initiatives

  • The Anarchives (#anarchives) is an educational technology project being spearheaded by the Occupational Art School, a node-based educational network. It is an opportunity for distributing the authority of historical representation among a network of activist archivists based in collective documentation thru the wiki.occupy.net and other means of social media production. It applies several of the above-listed Occupy.net technologies, viz. Hubs on InterOccupy.net, Wikis, and the Occupy Map.

These projects are in early stages of development.

[edit] FLO Movement Group

  • AllOut 4 AllOut is a public awareness campaign about the damage incumbent politicians are doing to the nation.
  • Occupy Earth Summit http://occupytheearth.net is a global campaign leading up to an Occupiers Summer Solstice Earth Summit - bringing public awareness to global economic and environmental issues and actually defining and building the systems to transform these problems. This campaign also focuses on the United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit (June 20-22) - We intend to Occupy the United Nations by open-sourcing it, adding transparency, participatory systems and true citizen involvement.

[edit] OccupyAtlanta

  • We're currently building cloud ready (via proxmox containers) solutions for several projects. Details to come. http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debian_Appliance_Builder
  • One of our members owns a voice services carrier, Altus Carrier Services. He is providing voice services to the occupation at his cost, or free. See OccupyVoip.org for details. See the wiki page, OccupyVoip, for further details on requesting services, detailed use cases, and options available.

[edit] By Type

[edit] OS

  • occupyOS is a specialized Linux distribution designed to provide a secure environment activists can use to edit and publish documents, browse the web (manage site, twitter, and facebook pages), and securely communicate both on the ground and with the outside world. It was designed with security and usability in mind.
    NOTE: occupyOS is still under heavy development and an official stable release has not been made.


  • Tails is a live CD or live USB that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.
    It helps you to:
    • use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer:
    • all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
    • leave no trace on the computer you're using unless you ask it explicitly;
    • use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, email and instant messaging.


  • Liberté Linux
    is a secure, reliable, lightweight and easy to use Gentoo-based LiveUSB/SD/CD Linux distribution with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile environments. Whether you are a privacy advocate, a dissident, or a sleeper agent, you are equally likely to find Liberté Linux useful as a mission-critical communication aid. Install it on a USB drive and don't use it from your home to get max. security/anonymity. It randomly changes your MAC adress every time you boot.


  • PocketRocketLinux evolved from packages created by the team who built much of the Damn Small Linux system, and later the Tiny Core Linux package, considered the fastest, most robust and reliable Linux today and the heart of PRL.
    • PRL installs quickly to a USB Flash Drive or hard drive, even a Windows hard drive
    • Provides full office tools, encryption, flash video, audio record and playback
    • as well as the TOR browser and https-everywhere for encrypted anonymous web browsing
    • ideal for activists and users in censored nations like China (and the U.S.) who need to crack through firewalls and protect sensitive email and blog transmissions.
    • PRL easily reads Windows and Linux data, documents and spreadsheets and has all the tools to make "ANY PC" your personal office and safe, virus free, secure browser.
    • Cache Data is "erased" on shut down unless you request persistence and PRL runs in RAM, leaving no trace on the host PC.


Other options: Backtrack, dyne:bolic, FreeBSD and Debian.


For some basic support on how to install these OS, you can contact Nicholas

[edit] Repositories

  • DRY Democracia Real Ya, work from Spain.
  • Occupy Sustainability is a living collection of technologies that can be (or are being) implemented at various Occupy camps and other temporary, autonomous camps.
  • The Free Software Foundation's Directory of free/libre/opensource software solutions we can use to empower ourselves and our community.

Repositories

[edit] News

  • OccupyWallSt.org is the self-proclaimed "de facto" movement website and an open source project: github.com/jart/occupywallst.
  • The Occupy Apps group is concerned with developing, cataloging and promoting mobile apps of use to occupations, protests, and civil manifestations. This includes a focus on secure peer-to-peer mesh networking technologies using ad hoc infrastructure and integrated with a range of mobile devices.
  • OccupyWeb is a RSS feed aggregator created by the inventor of RSS to provide a "river" of occupation related content.
  • Occupationalist Occupationalist is an impartial and real-time view of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Covering history as it unfolds. No filters. No delays.
  • Occupation Planet is an Ushahidi site intended to allow Occupations everywhere report police action and other incidents, events, etc. Ushahidi is an open source application originally developed for disaster response efforts, in this case we're adapting it to the needs, and for the benefit, of the Occupation.
  • Occupyist events and feeds for occupy wall st.
  • Occupy Network connects Occupy-related Facebook groups.
  • Occupied Stories is a story-sharing platform for #occupy. Read first-person accounts from the movement and submit your own.
  • Occupywallstreet is a news hub and aggregator, and was the first forum and occupy site to go live in June 2011.

News

[edit] Events

  • OccupyRadio.fm Nation Broadcast Model from A/V Broadcast Working Group - Austin
  • Occupy the Web is the ad-hoc hub for the various #occupy hack-a-thons are springing up across the country.

Events

[edit] Communication

  • Local Park VOIP Server and Public Internet VOIP Server using Asterisk / Free switch to facilitate occupier communication, conference calls, voice mail, etc.
  • Local Park GSM Cell Phone Tower Network using [4]
  • HDTV Live streaming using Linux Zeroshell.net distribution for multi-interface VPN-Bonding using a single notebook computer and 1 3g/4g card from each broadband carrier: Verizon, Sprint, ATT, T-Mobile, and Clearwire.
  • Twitter/Facebook Group Messaging System: Donateyouraccount.com/ows Integration Into NYCGA.NET for Instant text alert blasts through facebook and twitter

Communication

[edit] Organizing

  • InterOccupy.org "will be a big tool for the movement."
  • Occupy The Stack is a forum for facilitating inter-occupy consensus, including threads to discuss proposals, facilitator working group discussion, and a weekly internet telephone conference. Each proposal for consideration by GAs has its own group, members join the group to work on the thread. Includes flow chart and process proposal.

Organizing

[edit] Decision Making Platforms

  • Plainsite allows users to post problems and solutions in layman's terms, which can then be linked to specific parts of federal or (eventually) state law.
  • OpenAssembly allows groups to make secure decisions and create community platforms or manifestos to focus discussion.
  • OccupyIdeas is a platform for voting up ideas related to the occupations. (Site down/non-resolving DNS)
  • Dialog4 is a Mac/PC facilitation tool that allocates turns to speakers according to time previously used.
  • OccupyAssembly is being developed as a near real-time General Assembly for the Internet. (Domain squatted)
  • Liquid Feedback is the legislation-making platform that catapulted the Piratenpartei into the state parliament of Berlin and has her at 7-10% in recent national polls. See http://piratenpad.de/occuliquid for more.
  • echo facilitates a constructive public discourse for opinion formation and joint solution finding. If Wikipedia is the world's biggest knowledge-base, echo aims to create the world's most comprehensive "opinion-base". echo allows us to co-create our proposals in a democratic process, discuss their pros & cons and provide multimedia background information about them. The discussions are cross-language and can thus facilitate global collaboration beyond language barriers. The software is open-source and planned to evolve towards a decentral, federated architecture.
  • Global Constitution An effort to develop a protocol or standard so that different decision making systems can interact more easily. This will promote cooperation amongst revolutionary efforts and define the axiomatic concepts of the decision process. In concept this protocol should be similar in concept to the TCP-IP or the RFC HTTP Protocol.
  • Wireless Clicker Voting Systems testing of ReplySystems.com Mini+ and Plus products are ongoing in NYC.
  • BetterMeans A decision making platform being tested by the Occupy National General Assembly (Bettermeans site software is broken; also, security certificate is for heroko.)
  • Global May is a vote up, vote down system containing a collection of ideas and calls for the Global Spring 2012. The platform is based on Joomla! Open Source CMS and can be copied/installed/hosted as necessary. Currently a cobweb; the decision making platform cannot be found at the url.

Decision Making Platforms

[edit] Data

Data

[edit] Third Party

  • Occupy Within
  • Project-based economy Peer-to-peer economy implementation strategy
  • Move Commons is a simple tool for initiatives, collectives and NGOs to declare their core principles.
  • http://baseline.greeningneighborhoods.com/
  • http://eduglu.com/latest-eduglu-news
  • OccupyResearch is a site for open, shared, distributed research within and related to Occupy
  • Repost.Us Free service that makes any web page embeddable allowing whole posts to go viral just like video.
  • Vibe - Free iOS/Android app for anonymous communication within an occupy encampment and beyond via messages that have a broadcast distance and duration. Vibe is a point and shoot version of AskLocal.
  • AskLocal - Free iOS app for anonymous communication between occupies around the world via location based messages. Use in conjunction with Universities iOS app to quickly jump to map location of other occupies.
  • Ushahidi - "We are a non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping." They want to deploy this for OWS and Occupy London.
  • FYItag.com Simple web based software to help manage social media publishing to Twitter - Facebook - LinkedIn and YouTube. There is a free 30 day trial at the site. Let us know which Occupy site you are with and we will consider extending that
  • Yapp.us Online service that allows anyone (even with no tech or design knowledge) to create an app in minutes. You can create an app for your Occupy movement so that you can get information to people on their iPhones or Android devices. Currently pre-beta, but put "occupy" in the about me section to get a priority code.
  • Remindem (free) sends important text reminders just when your subscribers need them, based on a schedule you define.
  • DOTGO (free) can be used as a platform to allow users to access info on the web thru text messaging. You send "domain name" to a 6 digit number that connects to a text file located on the domain's server. Demo: send "re-configure" to 368-674 (spells DOTORG).
  • Social Economix is a platform that allows anyone to support the occupy movement from home or work. Users can show the world which companies they are boycotting and why. Users can also show their support for responsible companies.
  • Baseline Utility Calculator - Keep track of house hold utility use. Lower the use, save money, reduce impact.
  • The People's Skype A phone-powered, distributed voice and voting system for the #Occupy Movement
  • 99online.us Major Adjunct CONTENT PRODUCTION and Resource Site for 99 percent Activist Movements.

Third Party

[edit] Wiki

[edit] Media

  • 99% Media is a place to "find the best media online, add it by pasting the link and tag, review, comment and vote."
  • Occupied Stories is a story-sharing platform for #occupy. Read first-person accounts from the movement and submit your own.

Media

[edit] Mobile

Twyddle - Community and protest activity organization tool - iPhone app store, and android app OWS MicCheck - Activity mapping and mic check tool - iPhone

Mobile

[edit] Hardware

  • FreeNet is the federated, peer-to-peer information network being built at occupation sites around the world, using Freedom Tower gear. It is currently providing free wifi to the occupations at the Wall Street and Austin occupations.
  • Occupy Sustainability is a living collection of technologies that can be (or are being) implemented at various Occupy camps and other temporary, autonomous camps.
  • Reply® Mini "is a compact and wearable audience response system that's ideal for events large and small." Could be useful for GA. Can we develop an open source alternative?

Hardware

Occupy Tech Projects

[edit] Human-Ware

[edit] Surveys

  • [5] - OccupyMedia! Survey: The Role of Social Media in Occupations and Protests

Surveys
 
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