Tools and Practices

Page for documenting existing tools and practices (initially of ICTs and media, but could be broader) within the camps, and ideas for new tools. This page needs cleanup, maybe to be split to subpages?

Other pages that list links to tools

• Occupy Everywhere has many good resource links: http://wiki.occupyeverywhere.org/index.php/Main_Page
• Occupyr resources page: http://www.occupyr.com/resources.php

Existing media tools and practices

• ex. OccupyBoston media and ICTs: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjwx6XfW
• People's Mic, Info table, Paper Forums, Livestream, Maps, Meetup, General Assembly, IRC, Logistics, etc
• spreadsheet of all camps w/indications of infrastructure: campname, website, twitter, fb, meetup, livestream, wiki, irc, radiostream, electricity, list of working groups, donations, etc: http://bit.ly/occupyspreadsheet

Guides

• NYC GA: http://cryptome.org/0005/occupy-guide.pdf
• http://occupyatlanta.org/general-assembly-2/ga-guide

Libraries

• http://peopleslibrary.wordpress.com/catalog/

To categorize

• http://occupyglobal.net/
• http://www.occupycafe.org/

Idea gathering & sharing

• Aggregating info about hacking and dev: http://occupy-dev.org/
• Idea sharing: http://www.occupyconnect.net/about
• OccupyHack google moderator: http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=e2bc4
• OccupyIdeas proposal & solution brainstorm and rating system built on ideatorrent.org: http://occupyideas.cc
• Occupy the Web Hackathon: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2325537746/efbnen
• LoCast mobile question & answer gathering tool: http://locast.mit.edu/occupied
• Declaration in all languages: http://occupyglobal.net/
  
  
  

Decisionmaking

• http://OccupyIdeas.cc
• Voting with twitter: http://www.platoniq.net/yeswecamp/
• general assembly tools? selectricity could be used... meetings.mayfirst.org. StackBot? Consens.us
• tweetometro
• Dialog3 is a Mac/PC program that allocates turns to speakers using the equal-time resolution rule: http://dss.secureid.org/stories/storyReader$21
• Pairwise rating/voting tool for ideas: http://www.allourideas.org/occupywallstreet

Logistics & Supplies

• Occupy Wish List: http://www.occupywishlist.org/
• Volunteer manager: http://occupy.jungshadow.com/shifts (to be deployed at occupyshifts.org)
• OccupySupply - seem to be a number of projects like this. 'Ground Support' tool. To coordinate material donations. Currently done by wiki. See https://anonymous1234.wiki.zoho.com/HelpOWS.html | http://jordanarsenault.com/occupywallstreet-demo/ | http://nycga.cc/category/requests/ | http://occupyboston.wikispaces.com/ | https://sites.google.com/site/occupyrevolution/what-we-have. More recent: http://libertysquare.permabank.cc/

Media Aggregation

• http://99percentmedia.org

Streaming

• map w/thumbs of all streams: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cfd/occupystreamsmap/
• Links to all streams: http://occupystreams.org
• Interesting new tool: all the livestreams from the #Occupy camps in one place http://occupymanifesto.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=chat
• IVR survey tool: can we use VOIP Drupal or other tool to create a voice-only/voice interactive version of surveys, so people can call in for it?
• OccupyRadio: livestreams hard to follow if you have poor bandwidth. Let's make a tool like StreamPhone (could be useful for LOTS of use cases) that lets you drop in a URL of any stream (or video or audio file on the web?) and gives you a way to listen by phone. Basically just one number (twlio?), and the tools generates a code to enter after you call the number, to hear the stream or audio from the file.
• http://ows.140elect.com/tweet_stats.php - database browser for all tweets containing #ows, #occupy, #occupywallstreet

Notetaking

• From Boston: http://occupyboston.wikispaces.com/GA+Minutes
• From Washington, DC: http://occupydc.org/category/general-assembly/

Maps

(moved to http://occupyresearch.wikispaces.com/maps)

Apps

• http://occupyapps.org/

Ideas for new tools

• occupyideas.cc
• occupytogether.crowdmaps.com
• Assembly: different tools for remote assembly participation. Example: irc consensus bot. Augmented w / voice? Hangout: Assembly module? etc
• Virtual Paper Forums: single empty page, just topic. Responses / tweets to that topic aggregate and cluster on the page. More RTs, response grows in size. Thumbnails of related/tweeted media accrete as well.
• OccupySupply: look at logistics tools (existing) and find improvements
• OccupyRadio: produce programming in Spanish for U.S., Latin American, and Spanish audiences. Do other languages as capacity allows
• ThisIsWhatDemocracySoundsLike: database of chants. Call in, press 1. to listen to chants, press 2. to upload a chant.
• 'Credit Union of the 99??' Anyone w/income below 300k welcome (see moveyourmoney)

Other

• Audio: (a repository of audio recordings could be very useful. anybody using freesound.org? audio could also be extracted from videos posted in youtube and other channels) people's mic (here is an interesting article on the use of this practice:“I didn’t say look; I said listen”: The People’s Microphone, #OWS, and Beyond), mobile dj's, drummers (different kind of set ups), rhymes, songs, bands (rock, country, brass)
• Visual (signs (collaborative table with brushes, paint, brushes), flags, hand sign language for general assembly, masks, scultptures such as megaphone in liberty square)
• Performance (cos-play : Guy Fawkes, minutemen, zombies, colonial times, marching band parade, puppets, especial performances and situations such as this one making a statement of the US military occupation of Afganistan.);
• Printing (newspapers, fliers, pamphlets)