Post Scarcity Foundation

The Post Scarcity Foundation is a stub. Feel free to edit, be critical and add ideas!

Mission?

 * to work towards a post-scarcity society
 * towards a post-scarcity society
 * beyond scarcity
 * for a more efficient society
 * make the best of what we have
 * maximizing what is limited
 * enough for everybody
 * share the abundance
 * abundance for everyone

Change name?

 * Something more positive!
 * Abundance (kinda synonym to post-scarcity:
 * The Abundance Foundation already exists (and guaka doesn't like the name that much)
 * Magic Kingdom (per Doctorow)

How we want to keep the foundation and the projects
based on http://hitchwiki.org/en/Hitchwiki:How_we_want_to_keep_Hitchwiki

Spirit of cooperation

 * Most action just happens - someone has an idea, goes ahead and does it.
 * In case there's doubt if all active participants would be happy with an action: we want a democratic work environment, where we first try to decide by consensus.
 * We encourage active member participation and try to keep convivial work environments.

Transparency

 * As much communication and information as possible is and will be available on the internet. This excludes information such as server passwords, but it goes as far as what software and extensions are running on Sharewiki, and naturally a history of all edits ever made.
 * Many decisions are made and discussed in wikipages or a mailing list, accessible by everyone.

Free software

 * We exclusively use free software. The entire server stack, MediaWiki, any mailing list software, everything is and should be free.  Skype for personal communication about the project is everyone's own choice but is discouraged - use IRC or Jabber instead.

Open data

 * We want to make database dumps available.
 * We want to support open formats and standards, such as OpenID and microformats.

Free license

 * Content of projects is licensed under the Creative Commons ShareAlike Attribution license or the CC-BY-NC-SA license.

International

 * Given enough interest, people should be allowed to set up their own language versions.

Not for profit

 * We aim for grant money and donations.
 * We don't want advertising or affiliate marketing. Ethical advertising such as Adbard would still be okay.

Means
Means of achieving post-scarcity:
 * sharing
 * community
 * knowledge
 * housing
 * food
 * peer to peer
 * technology
 * fablabs
 * free design

Fields

 * informationn, culture
 * post-scarcity is around the corner, held back by big media corporations and e.g. Apple
 * software
 * through free software
 * hackerspace
 * communication
 * close
 * transport
 * lots of potential
 * food
 * local production
 * guerilla gardening
 * waste reduction
 * dumpster diving
 * vegetarianism/veganism

The websites
No ads, except for possibly Adbard or similar ethical advertising?

The wiki
We already have it, Sharewiki suits fine!

The blog
The next step. Regular blog posts about post-scarcity.

Started http://blog.sharewiki.org/, let me know if you want access. guaka 22:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC) :)

The social network
Joining:
 * By signing up you will state that you will act towards a post-scarcity society?
 * First 1000? members invitation only?

Practicalities:
 * hook into existing networks, FB, CS, twt
 * joindiaspora?
 * practical:
 * ride shares
 * hospitality exchange

Stuff it will own

 * Various domains: sharewiki, trashwiki, nomadbase.org, sustainablepost.org, hitchgathering.org, couchwiki.org
 * Possibly: casarobino.org, randomroads.org

An official organization

 * In the Netherlands
 * Can fund projects like Hitchwiki, Trashwiki, Randomroads, Hitchgathering, new projects
 * Provide money to people to focus on developing these projects
 * Encourage
 * Can receive money from grant foundations
 * Can receive EU funding?
 * Accepts donations

Affiliate organizations
More Hitchhiking and other orgs?
 * http://abgefahren-ev.de/, Germany - contact MrTweek, platschi.
 * http://p2pfoundation.net/, Belgium - contact through guaka


 * Grant money sometimes requires cooperation between organizations in different EU countries.

People

 * guaka wants to found this in 2010, plus technological
 * Robino is also committed.
 * Sitarane for some community slave service
 * add yourself if you want to help - add what you want to help with

Background

 * Wikipedia
 * Down and Out of the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow
 * Post Scarcity at P2P Foundation wiki