2021-04-24

• Listened: [[Rethinking infrastructure: the case for social investment]]

  • [[Care work is infrastructure]].

• Pleased to be coming up with a few more [[notion]]s now. In the interests of keeping track of what I’m thinking about, as a kind of mishmash of [[speculative outline]]s, now pages, and [[Spaced repetition]], I’m going to have a make a page called (awfully) [[nowtions]], which is a list of latest notions.

• [[Citizen participation platform]]s: [[Decidim]], [[Your Priorities]], [[Consul]]

• Could you describe Agora as a [[citizen participation platform]] for citizens of a virtual place?

• [[musicForProgramming]] mix #1 by [[Datassette]] is rad.

• Stumbled on a software suite for UK town and parish councils. Managing allotments, playgrounds, cemeteries, planning, inspections, etc etc. This stuff is kind of fascinating, e.g. https://www.edgeitsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AdvantEDGE-Allotments.pdf

  • Sucks that this is one business somewhere and of course it all appears to run on Microsoft tooling.
  • I think all this should be a libre stack, supported and set up locally by local tech coops, working together and committing back to the stack.