foprop

foprop in wiki and write.as

Reorientation now. Settling into reflective writing-in-public. Still activist – the world is on fire, for christ’s sake! But setting aside 'organiser' commitments at last.

We started out here foprop blog – welcome with an orientation to pattern language(ing) and an intention to hook up with people in social.coop. Pattern language and social.coop are still in the frame, but the intention is wider now, and less project-ish.

We’ll use this blog to notify developments in A book of skill – a federated wiki site where we mean to do our ongoing public writing. Why fedwiki? (Just plain wiki from here onwards; the more familiar wiki-aggregator format is tagged ‘orthodox wiki’.) Wiki is an unfamiliar format for many, and yes, it is possible as a newbie to get lost when many pages are opened in the multipage lineup that is one of its great core features. But fedwiki is beautiful for hypertext writing, in the fashion of a multi-facetted commonplace book (as well as for other wonderful things, as conceived by Ward Cunningham, the inventor of wikis). Being federated and Creative Commons, wiki content can be forked and repurposed by others publishing in the wikiverse.

Wiki doesn’t push – another great feature. You need to choose what you read, by pulling writers you have a reason to attend to – which is why this blog is run alongside wiki. You can choose to have these blog posts pushed to you if you subscribe (the link is below). Of course, being published via write.as means that you also can follow @foprop@write.as in the fediverse. Likewise, you can response in the fediverse and we can develop conversations.