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Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-11-02T09:19:24Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative Mapping */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).
*tinymce (not absolutely sure this suppports collaboration but looks good generally?)
*kune.ourproject.org ?

* It is possible to have a totally private mediawiki? However it is not possible to do this in a secure way making it private page by page, so it would have to be a seperate wiki from this one.

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)
* Owncloud?

*Kune.ourproject.org
ourproject.org

== Collaborative Mapping ==
'''Previously:''' Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://www.openstreetmap.org
* http://opencyclemap.org/
* http://openptmap.org/
* lot's of services based on openstreetmap basic map data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.
** this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html
** https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/ - program for mac/windows and ubuntu - allows you to create maps

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== Route Planners ==

'''Previously:''' G-Maps' routeplanning function

'''Preferences:''' Make use of free map data in easy to handle, FLOSSy route calculation tools

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://bbbike.de
* http://www.anachb.at
* http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/ : Bike Route Toaster has a free to use Course creator that allows people to prepare routes using Open Street Maps, Open Cycle Maps (and also the generic Googlemaps). It has an auto route option using OSM that works fairly well and allows to route within bike paths (Google maps routing does not allow this). other advantages are: - If you input your estimated average speed it can give you your estimated time for that route; - It gives you an altitude profile; - It can supply you with a cue sheet with directions; - You can save the route into a "*.gpx" file that can be loaded into comercial gps devices or smartphone apps, such as Osmand (Offline gps app for Android devices). Disadvantages: - The learning curve may scare some people. Is not that is hard to use, but is different; For example, you cannot search for a location, you must zoom in that location and then you can start adding way-points. But if you open another window or tab in you browser with open street maps, you can easily circumvent this problem.
* http://www.gpsies.com/ : could be a nice 1st step towards an alternative; but still bearing many characteristics of non-FLOSSyness, namely:
** very present links to G00+, FB
** a forum which is in fact a G00 group
** not really an "about" explanation page there...?
** four different G00 and FB trackers operating in the background
** featuring embedded multimedia content from y0u2b or p!casa
** it is using mapquest data (company owned by A0L)

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*Owncloud?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software
* tahoe-LAFS : distributed file systems with encryption and 'fine-grained' access controlled - whoever's running the servers can't access all your files.git-annex-assistant can add dropbox-like functionality to this. S4 is a commercial provider which provides access to this...

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert However, it's not clear whether this will be open source software.
*[http://libertreeproject.org/ Libertree]
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:

*Gimp [http://www.gimp.org/] (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop [http://www.gimpshop.com/] (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape [http://inkscape.org/] (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus [http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus] (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office [http://www.libreoffice.org/] - Libre Draw and Libre Impress
*Lightworks [http://www.lwks.com/] (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender [http://www.blender.org/] (animation)

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)
*[http://lychee.electerious.com/ Lychee] is a really simple and nice open-source photo gallery software that is now being used for the Biketour 2013 photos

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

* http://www.monofueralle.info/

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-09-07T14:06:40Z

Nickmd: /* File hosting / File sharing */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).
*tinymce (not absolutely sure this suppports collaboration but looks good generally?)
*kune.ourproject.org ?

* It is possible to have a totally private mediawiki? However it is not possible to do this in a secure way making it private page by page, so it would have to be a seperate wiki from this one.

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)
* Owncloud?

*Kune.ourproject.org
ourproject.org

== Collaborative Mapping ==
'''Previously:''' Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://www.openstreetmap.org
* http://opencyclemap.org/
* http://openptmap.org/
* lot's of services based on openstreetmap basic map data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.
** this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== Route Planners ==

'''Previously:''' G-Maps' routeplanning function

'''Preferences:''' Make use of free map data in easy to handle, FLOSSy route calculation tools

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://bbbike.de
* http://www.anachb.at
* http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/ : Bike Route Toaster has a free to use Course creator that allows people to prepare routes using Open Street Maps, Open Cycle Maps (and also the generic Googlemaps). It has an auto route option using OSM that works fairly well and allows to route within bike paths (Google maps routing does not allow this). other advantages are: - If you input your estimated average speed it can give you your estimated time for that route; - It gives you an altitude profile; - It can supply you with a cue sheet with directions; - You can save the route into a "*.gpx" file that can be loaded into comercial gps devices or smartphone apps, such as Osmand (Offline gps app for Android devices). Disadvantages: - The learning curve may scare some people. Is not that is hard to use, but is different; For example, you cannot search for a location, you must zoom in that location and then you can start adding way-points. But if you open another window or tab in you browser with open street maps, you can easily circumvent this problem.
* http://www.gpsies.com/ : could be a nice 1st step towards an alternative; but still bearing many characteristics of non-FLOSSyness, namely:
** very present links to G00+, FB
** a forum which is in fact a G00 group
** not really an "about" explanation page there...?
** four different G00 and FB trackers operating in the background
** featuring embedded multimedia content from y0u2b or p!casa
** it is using mapquest data (company owned by A0L)

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*Owncloud?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software
* tahoe-LAFS : distributed file systems with encryption and 'fine-grained' access controlled - whoever's running the servers can't access all your files.git-annex-assistant can add dropbox-like functionality to this. S4 is a commercial provider which provides access to this...

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert However, it's not clear whether this will be open source software.
*[http://libertreeproject.org/ Libertree]
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:

*Gimp [http://www.gimp.org/] (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop [http://www.gimpshop.com/] (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape [http://inkscape.org/] (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus [http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus] (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office [http://www.libreoffice.org/] - Libre Draw and Libre Impress
*Lightworks [http://www.lwks.com/] (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender [http://www.blender.org/] (animation)

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

* http://www.monofueralle.info/

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-09-05T22:06:17Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).
*tinymce (not absolutely sure this suppports collaboration but looks good generally?)
*kune.ourproject.org ?

* It is possible to have a totally private mediawiki? However it is not possible to do this in a secure way making it private page by page, so it would have to be a seperate wiki from this one.

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)
* Owncloud?

*Kune.ourproject.org
ourproject.org

== Collaborative Mapping ==
'''Previously:''' Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://www.openstreetmap.org
* http://opencyclemap.org/
* http://openptmap.org/
* lot's of services based on openstreetmap basic map data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.
** this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== Route Planners ==

'''Previously:''' G-Maps' routeplanning function

'''Preferences:''' Make use of free map data in easy to handle, FLOSSy route calculation tools

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://bbbike.de
* http://www.anachb.at
* http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/ : Bike Route Toaster has a free to use Course creator that allows people to prepare routes using Open Street Maps, Open Cycle Maps (and also the generic Googlemaps). It has an auto route option using OSM that works fairly well and allows to route within bike paths (Google maps routing does not allow this). other advantages are: - If you input your estimated average speed it can give you your estimated time for that route; - It gives you an altitude profile; - It can supply you with a cue sheet with directions; - You can save the route into a "*.gpx" file that can be loaded into comercial gps devices or smartphone apps, such as Osmand (Offline gps app for Android devices). Disadvantages: - The learning curve may scare some people. Is not that is hard to use, but is different; For example, you cannot search for a location, you must zoom in that location and then you can start adding way-points. But if you open another window or tab in you browser with open street maps, you can easily circumvent this problem.
* http://www.gpsies.com/ : could be a nice 1st step towards an alternative; but still bearing many characteristics of non-FLOSSyness, namely:
** very present links to G00+, FB
** a forum which is in fact a G00 group
** not really an "about" explanation page there...?
** four different G00 and FB trackers operating in the background
** featuring embedded multimedia content from y0u2b or p!casa
** it is using mapquest data (company owned by A0L)

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*Owncloud?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert However, it's not clear whether this will be open source software.
*[http://libertreeproject.org/ Libertree]
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:

*Gimp [http://www.gimp.org/] (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop [http://www.gimpshop.com/] (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape [http://inkscape.org/] (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus [http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus] (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office [http://www.libreoffice.org/] - Libre Draw and Libre Impress
*Lightworks [http://www.lwks.com/] (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender [http://www.blender.org/] (animation)

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

* http://www.monofueralle.info/

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-09-05T22:04:41Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative project / task management */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).
*tinymce (not absolutely sure this suppports collaboration but looks good generally?)

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)
* Owncloud?

*Kune.ourproject.org
ourproject.org

== Collaborative Mapping ==
'''Previously:''' Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://www.openstreetmap.org
* http://opencyclemap.org/
* http://openptmap.org/
* lot's of services based on openstreetmap basic map data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.
** this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== Route Planners ==

'''Previously:''' G-Maps' routeplanning function

'''Preferences:''' Make use of free map data in easy to handle, FLOSSy route calculation tools

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://bbbike.de
* http://www.anachb.at
* http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/ : Bike Route Toaster has a free to use Course creator that allows people to prepare routes using Open Street Maps, Open Cycle Maps (and also the generic Googlemaps). It has an auto route option using OSM that works fairly well and allows to route within bike paths (Google maps routing does not allow this). other advantages are: - If you input your estimated average speed it can give you your estimated time for that route; - It gives you an altitude profile; - It can supply you with a cue sheet with directions; - You can save the route into a "*.gpx" file that can be loaded into comercial gps devices or smartphone apps, such as Osmand (Offline gps app for Android devices). Disadvantages: - The learning curve may scare some people. Is not that is hard to use, but is different; For example, you cannot search for a location, you must zoom in that location and then you can start adding way-points. But if you open another window or tab in you browser with open street maps, you can easily circumvent this problem.
* http://www.gpsies.com/ : could be a nice 1st step towards an alternative; but still bearing many characteristics of non-FLOSSyness, namely:
** very present links to G00+, FB
** a forum which is in fact a G00 group
** not really an "about" explanation page there...?
** four different G00 and FB trackers operating in the background
** featuring embedded multimedia content from y0u2b or p!casa
** it is using mapquest data (company owned by A0L)

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*Owncloud?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert However, it's not clear whether this will be open source software.
*[http://libertreeproject.org/ Libertree]
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:

*Gimp [http://www.gimp.org/] (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop [http://www.gimpshop.com/] (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape [http://inkscape.org/] (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus [http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus] (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office [http://www.libreoffice.org/] - Libre Draw and Libre Impress
*Lightworks [http://www.lwks.com/] (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender [http://www.blender.org/] (animation)

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

* http://www.monofueralle.info/

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

2013 individual trips

2013-07-22T16:18:32Z

Nickmd: /* Place A >> Place B */

= Barcelona >> Berlín =

Hi! I'm from near Barcelona, and I want to get Berlin by the 11th!
* I'm thinking in the option of '''sharing car''': [http://www.blablacar.com/]
* or although hitchhiking! (autostop...), but with the bike I think will be difficult...
* or maybe a '''combination with train and sharing car'''!
* I'm looking it yet!
* '''Is somebody else going from Barcelona or other place in Catalunya?'''
* for contact me: gelabertgg[AaTt]gmail[DdOoTt]com
* waiting to start! =)
* Gemma

= Ruhrgebiet >> Berlin : Quer-durchs-Land-Ticket teilen =

Hallo, Ich habe Lust, ein Quer-durchs-Land-Ticket zu teilen.
Wer fährt mit am Donnerstag, 11. Juli ?
Sende mir eine SMS : 004917639265463
oder schreib eine Nachricht hier : http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/User_talk:Claire

Hello, I would like to share a "Quer-durchs-Land Ticket" from the Ruhrgebiet Area to Berlin.
Those tickets allow us to travel cheaply across Germany using regional trains.

More infos :
http://www.bahn.de/regional/view/regionen/freizeit/quer-durchs-land.shtml

--[[User:Claire|Claire]] 20:53, 08 July 2013 (UTC)

= Warszawa >> Berlin =

There is a train from Warsaw to Berlin on the 12th: one at 6am and one at 10am, the journey takes about 5h. I think I'll be taking the one at 10am - let me know if you'll be going that way too!
mdfeba [at] gmail

= UK/Northwest Europe >> Prague =

Hey, I'm trying to find a way from Newcastle to Prague on the 25th/26th July - would be up for sharing trips/travelling with someone if that suits!
I've looked at EUROLINES but currently trying to find a way by train and ferry.

= Place A >> Place B =

Abc...
* Xyz...

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-06-25T16:20:39Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).
*tinymce (not absolutely sure this suppports collaboration but looks good generally?)

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)
* Owncloud?

== Collaborative Mapping ==
'''Previously:''' Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://www.openstreetmap.org
* http://opencyclemap.org/
* http://openptmap.org/
* lot's of services based on openstreetmap basic map data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.
** this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== Route Planners ==

'''Previously:''' G-Maps' routeplanning function

'''Preferences:''' Make use of free map data in easy to handle, FLOSSy route calculation tools

'''Known Alternatives:'''
* http://bbbike.de
* http://www.anachb.at
* http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/ : Bike Route Toaster has a free to use Course creator that allows people to prepare routes using Open Street Maps, Open Cycle Maps (and also the generic Googlemaps). It has an auto route option using OSM that works fairly well and allows to route within bike paths (Google maps routing does not allow this). other advantages are: - If you input your estimated average speed it can give you your estimated time for that route; - It gives you an altitude profile; - It can supply you with a cue sheet with directions; - You can save the route into a "*.gpx" file that can be loaded into comercial gps devices or smartphone apps, such as Osmand (Offline gps app for Android devices). Disadvantages: - The learning curve may scare some people. Is not that is hard to use, but is different; For example, you cannot search for a location, you must zoom in that location and then you can start adding way-points. But if you open another window or tab in you browser with open street maps, you can easily circumvent this problem.
* http://www.gpsies.com/ : could be a nice 1st step towards an alternative; but still bearing many characteristics of non-FLOSSyness, namely:
** very present links to G00+, FB
** a forum which is in fact a G00 group
** not really an "about" explanation page there...?
** four different G00 and FB trackers operating in the background
** featuring embedded multimedia content from y0u2b or p!casa
** it is using mapquest data (company owned by A0L)

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*Owncloud?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert However, it's not clear whether this will be open source software.
*[http://libertreeproject.org/ Libertree]
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:

*Gimp [http://www.gimp.org/] (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop [http://www.gimpshop.com/] (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape [http://inkscape.org/] (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus [http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus] (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office [http://www.libreoffice.org/] - Libre Draw and Libre Impress
*Lightworks [http://www.lwks.com/] (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender [http://www.blender.org/] (animation)

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

* http://www.monofueralle.info/

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-17T16:20:05Z

Nickmd: /* Social Networking */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)
* Owncloud?

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*Owncloud?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert However, it's not clear whether this will be open source software.
*[http://libertreeproject.org/ Libertree]
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-17T16:06:40Z

Nickmd: /* File hosting / File sharing */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)
* Owncloud?

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*Owncloud?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-17T16:06:03Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative project / task management */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)
* Owncloud?

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-17T16:04:38Z

Nickmd: /* Calendar */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OwnCloud owncloud]

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-14T12:27:19Z

Nickmd: /* eMail */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here])
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-14T12:27:07Z

Nickmd: /* eMail */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
**(And portable thunderbird [http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable here]
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-14T09:51:46Z

Nickmd: /* Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists */ added freedom box page

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]
* Freedom Box 'leaving the public cloud' [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud page]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-11T15:02:09Z

Nickmd: /* Social Networking */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert
*There's a wikipedia list of software and protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking here].
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-10T23:03:56Z

Nickmd: /* Social Networking */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
*[http://friendica.com/ frendica] - decentralised and can federate with diaspora, identica, twitter and others - maybe facebook? Says it's easy to install on own server
* [http://www.zsocial.org/users/sign_up faceleft] - not a joke, znet / zcommunications are trying to launch this and have been joined by greek revolutionary party syriza: http://www.zcommunications.org/facelefts-aims-by-michael-albert
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-10T21:59:57Z

Nickmd: /* File hosting / File sharing */ add Free NAS

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*Other file sharing servers: [http://www.freenas.org/about-freenas/features.html#file-sharing FreeNas]. This should be supported my most if not all operating systems without needing extra software (you would add a shared folder I think).
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-10T21:23:36Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration (abicollab) - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-10T21:23:13Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.
*abiword - a FOSS wordprocessor that also supports collaboration - there is a server at: https://abicollab.net (I don't know if it's possible to host your own server for this).

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...
*Lumicall

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

== Spam filtering ==
* currently nicely done by google for the @bt mail.
* currently not done for the wiki
* currently akismet for wordpress.

Biketour 2012

2013-04-10T21:04:08Z

Nickmd:

NOTE THAT THIS PAGE IS NOW HISTORICAL.
PLEASE SEE THE HOME PAGE:[[Main_Page] AND THE 2013 PAGE:[[Biketour_2013]] FOR MORE UP TO DATE INFO.

Hope to see you cycling with us in the future!

==Overview==

The [[Overview 2012]] page outlines the key ideas of the tour of 2012. NOTE THAT THIS PAGE IS NOW HISTORICAL: PLEASE SEE THE HOME PAGE:[[Main_Page] AND THE 2013 PAGE:[[Biketour_2013]].

+ Why are we touring by bicycle? +

# Because it will be a crazy awesome adventure.
# We want to influence by example: if we can travel hundreds of km from one place to the next hauling loads of gear, surely you can manage to ride your bike to go grocery shopping a few km down the road!
# The revolution will be pedal powered.

==The route==
[[Route 2012]]

This years tour begins in Spain and finishes in Italy. The theme is degrowth and we are now searching for projects and actions to visit and participate in this summer.

[http://g.co/maps/82enr Here] is a google map where we are starting to collect route ideas, please add any; places, projects, action camps, ecovillages, contacts which we could visit along the way.

==Communications==

[[Organization Call-out 2012]]

[[Call-out 2012]]

[[Host request 2012]]

==Preparation weekend 2012==
The first weekend of the biketour is from 6-9th July at Can Masdeu in Barcelona. Go to [[Preparation weekend 2012]] for more details. Open invitation for Sunday 8th [[Degrowth Biketour Openday call out]].

==Things needed for biketour==
See the [[Equipment]] page.
See [[what to bring]] for ideas about what participants need.

==Travel plans and advice==
Lots of people are starting to talk about travel plans [[getting to and from the biketour 2012]] so I thought I would make a page where people can share this if they would like to.

== Needs Translation ==
This texts needs to be translated for the website into key languages (of countries we are passing on - French, Catalan, Castellano, Italian):
* [[Welcome Text 2012]]
* [[Route Text 2012]]
* [[Participation guidelines]]
* [[Organization Call-out 2012]]
* [[Biketour 2012/1st Flyer]]
* [[Host request 2012]]
* [[Website Menus 2012]]

==Propaganda==
[[BT 2012 advertising material]] - Let's keep a track of flyers, the booklet, design (put all links for propaganda materials on this wikipage)

[[S!lence draft]] - French publication happy to print an article

[[Booklet 2012]]

[[Barcelona Connect Article]]

[[Degrowth Biketour Openday call out]]

=== Where to publicize it ===
* http://www.mapmyride.com/events/edit/
* http://pt.indymedia.org/node/add/newswire
**http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/newswire/7723
**http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/agenda/7724
* http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php?function=publish
* https://madrid.indymedia.org/node/add/event
**https://madrid.indymedia.org/node/20596
*http://bicicritica.ourproject.org
**http://bicicritica.ourproject.org/ecotopia-biketour-2012-barcelona-venecia-decrecimiento
* http://estrecho.indymedia.org/
**http://estrecho.indymedia.org/evento/ecotopia-biketour-2012-barcelona-venecia-decrecimiento
* https://publish.indymedia.org/earth/servlet/OpenMir?do=opensession&sessiontype=content
**http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2012/05/957004.shtml
*http://gaia.org.pt/
**http://gaia.org.pt/node/16316
* http://carbusters.org/ (check email to follow up)
** http://carbusters.org/2012/05/27/ecotopia-biketour-cycling-towards-degrowth/
* http://biciosxs.prouespeculacio.org/categorias/viajes
* http://www.worldcarfree.net/bulletin/
**http://worldcarfree.net/bulletin/archives/may_12.html
* http://amies.revuesilence.net/spip.php?article73
* http://www.facebook.com/massacriticabcn?sk=wall
* http://www.decrecimiento.info/
**http://www.decrecimiento.info/2012/05/ecotopia-biketour-2012.html
* http://prod.galiza.indymedia.org/
* http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/
* http://grenoble.indymedia.org/
* http://italy.indymedia.org/
* http://laplana.indymedia.org/
* http://london.indymedia.org/
* https://linksunten.indymedia.org/
* http://nantes.indymedia.org/
* http://napoli.indymedia.org/
* http://paris.indymedia.org/
* http://roma.indymedia.org/
* http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
* http://abruzzo.indymedia.org/

==Winter meeting==

[[Wintermeeting 2012]]

This year the winter meeting will be held in Cerbere on the French side of the Spain/France border. For more info click [[Wintermeeting 2012|here]].

==BT 2012 workshop==

Last year in Italy we held a workshop by a lake which looked as the past present and future of biketour, find the [[BT 2012 workshop notes]] here.

==Money from past years==
500€ from last year with Helene, R&D bank details given

310.70€ with Alice in cash (460.70€ minus 150€ used to pay the translator)

João payed for the trailers axels (needs refunding - not priority)

==Links==
[[Links 2012]]

==Degrowth and the Conference in Venice==

[[Degrowth Workshop]] Can Decreix 21st July

There is a big Degrowth conference from 19th-23rd September 2012, Research and Degrowth here in Barcelona are involved with organising this and it has been proposed that this is the final destination of the tour. We aim to find a camp outside of town to unite us rather than scattering through the city. We would link with the conference with some kind of action and negotiate free entry for BT participants for part of the conference.

[http://www.venezia2012.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DEGROWTH-CONFERENCE-VENICE-short1.pdf Here] is the latest conference information available in english.

[http://www.venezia2012.it/?lang=en Here] is the conference website.

Biketour 2012

2013-04-10T21:01:54Z

Nickmd: /* Overview */

==Overview==

The [[Overview 2012]] page outlines the key a ideas of the tour of 2012. NOTE THAT THIS PAGE IS NOW HISTORICAL: PLEASE SEE THE HOME PAGE:[[Main_Page] AND THE 2013 PAGE:[[Biketour_2013]].

+ Why are we touring by bicycle? +

# Because it will be a crazy awesome adventure.
# We want to influence by example: if we can travel hundreds of km from one place to the next hauling loads of gear, surely you can manage to ride your bike to go grocery shopping a few km down the road!
# The revolution will be pedal powered.

==The route==
[[Route 2012]]

This years tour begins in Spain and finishes in Italy. The theme is degrowth and we are now searching for projects and actions to visit and participate in this summer.

[http://g.co/maps/82enr Here] is a google map where we are starting to collect route ideas, please add any; places, projects, action camps, ecovillages, contacts which we could visit along the way.

==Communications==

[[Organization Call-out 2012]]

[[Call-out 2012]]

[[Host request 2012]]

==Preparation weekend 2012==
The first weekend of the biketour is from 6-9th July at Can Masdeu in Barcelona. Go to [[Preparation weekend 2012]] for more details. Open invitation for Sunday 8th [[Degrowth Biketour Openday call out]].

==Things needed for biketour==
See the [[Equipment]] page.
See [[what to bring]] for ideas about what participants need.

==Travel plans and advice==
Lots of people are starting to talk about travel plans [[getting to and from the biketour 2012]] so I thought I would make a page where people can share this if they would like to.

== Needs Translation ==
This texts needs to be translated for the website into key languages (of countries we are passing on - French, Catalan, Castellano, Italian):
* [[Welcome Text 2012]]
* [[Route Text 2012]]
* [[Participation guidelines]]
* [[Organization Call-out 2012]]
* [[Biketour 2012/1st Flyer]]
* [[Host request 2012]]
* [[Website Menus 2012]]

==Propaganda==
[[BT 2012 advertising material]] - Let's keep a track of flyers, the booklet, design (put all links for propaganda materials on this wikipage)

[[S!lence draft]] - French publication happy to print an article

[[Booklet 2012]]

[[Barcelona Connect Article]]

[[Degrowth Biketour Openday call out]]

=== Where to publicize it ===
* http://www.mapmyride.com/events/edit/
* http://pt.indymedia.org/node/add/newswire
**http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/newswire/7723
**http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/agenda/7724
* http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php?function=publish
* https://madrid.indymedia.org/node/add/event
**https://madrid.indymedia.org/node/20596
*http://bicicritica.ourproject.org
**http://bicicritica.ourproject.org/ecotopia-biketour-2012-barcelona-venecia-decrecimiento
* http://estrecho.indymedia.org/
**http://estrecho.indymedia.org/evento/ecotopia-biketour-2012-barcelona-venecia-decrecimiento
* https://publish.indymedia.org/earth/servlet/OpenMir?do=opensession&sessiontype=content
**http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2012/05/957004.shtml
*http://gaia.org.pt/
**http://gaia.org.pt/node/16316
* http://carbusters.org/ (check email to follow up)
** http://carbusters.org/2012/05/27/ecotopia-biketour-cycling-towards-degrowth/
* http://biciosxs.prouespeculacio.org/categorias/viajes
* http://www.worldcarfree.net/bulletin/
**http://worldcarfree.net/bulletin/archives/may_12.html
* http://amies.revuesilence.net/spip.php?article73
* http://www.facebook.com/massacriticabcn?sk=wall
* http://www.decrecimiento.info/
**http://www.decrecimiento.info/2012/05/ecotopia-biketour-2012.html
* http://prod.galiza.indymedia.org/
* http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/
* http://grenoble.indymedia.org/
* http://italy.indymedia.org/
* http://laplana.indymedia.org/
* http://london.indymedia.org/
* https://linksunten.indymedia.org/
* http://nantes.indymedia.org/
* http://napoli.indymedia.org/
* http://paris.indymedia.org/
* http://roma.indymedia.org/
* http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
* http://abruzzo.indymedia.org/

==Winter meeting==

[[Wintermeeting 2012]]

This year the winter meeting will be held in Cerbere on the French side of the Spain/France border. For more info click [[Wintermeeting 2012|here]].

==BT 2012 workshop==

Last year in Italy we held a workshop by a lake which looked as the past present and future of biketour, find the [[BT 2012 workshop notes]] here.

==Money from past years==
500€ from last year with Helene, R&D bank details given

310.70€ with Alice in cash (460.70€ minus 150€ used to pay the translator)

João payed for the trailers axels (needs refunding - not priority)

==Links==
[[Links 2012]]

==Degrowth and the Conference in Venice==

[[Degrowth Workshop]] Can Decreix 21st July

There is a big Degrowth conference from 19th-23rd September 2012, Research and Degrowth here in Barcelona are involved with organising this and it has been proposed that this is the final destination of the tour. We aim to find a camp outside of town to unite us rather than scattering through the city. We would link with the conference with some kind of action and negotiate free entry for BT participants for part of the conference.

[http://www.venezia2012.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DEGROWTH-CONFERENCE-VENICE-short1.pdf Here] is the latest conference information available in english.

[http://www.venezia2012.it/?lang=en Here] is the conference website.

Biketour 2012

2013-04-10T21:01:02Z

Nickmd: added note that this is now historical

==Overview==

The [[Overview 2012]] page outlines the key a ideas of the tour of 2012. NOTE THAT THIS PAGE IS NOW HISTORICAL: PLEASE SEE THE [[MAIN PAGE]] AND THE 2013 PAGE:[[Biketour_2013]].

+ Why are we touring by bicycle? +

# Because it will be a crazy awesome adventure.
# We want to influence by example: if we can travel hundreds of km from one place to the next hauling loads of gear, surely you can manage to ride your bike to go grocery shopping a few km down the road!
# The revolution will be pedal powered.

==The route==
[[Route 2012]]

This years tour begins in Spain and finishes in Italy. The theme is degrowth and we are now searching for projects and actions to visit and participate in this summer.

[http://g.co/maps/82enr Here] is a google map where we are starting to collect route ideas, please add any; places, projects, action camps, ecovillages, contacts which we could visit along the way.

==Communications==

[[Organization Call-out 2012]]

[[Call-out 2012]]

[[Host request 2012]]

==Preparation weekend 2012==
The first weekend of the biketour is from 6-9th July at Can Masdeu in Barcelona. Go to [[Preparation weekend 2012]] for more details. Open invitation for Sunday 8th [[Degrowth Biketour Openday call out]].

==Things needed for biketour==
See the [[Equipment]] page.
See [[what to bring]] for ideas about what participants need.

==Travel plans and advice==
Lots of people are starting to talk about travel plans [[getting to and from the biketour 2012]] so I thought I would make a page where people can share this if they would like to.

== Needs Translation ==
This texts needs to be translated for the website into key languages (of countries we are passing on - French, Catalan, Castellano, Italian):
* [[Welcome Text 2012]]
* [[Route Text 2012]]
* [[Participation guidelines]]
* [[Organization Call-out 2012]]
* [[Biketour 2012/1st Flyer]]
* [[Host request 2012]]
* [[Website Menus 2012]]

==Propaganda==
[[BT 2012 advertising material]] - Let's keep a track of flyers, the booklet, design (put all links for propaganda materials on this wikipage)

[[S!lence draft]] - French publication happy to print an article

[[Booklet 2012]]

[[Barcelona Connect Article]]

[[Degrowth Biketour Openday call out]]

=== Where to publicize it ===
* http://www.mapmyride.com/events/edit/
* http://pt.indymedia.org/node/add/newswire
**http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/newswire/7723
**http://pt.indymedia.org/conteudo/agenda/7724
* http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php?function=publish
* https://madrid.indymedia.org/node/add/event
**https://madrid.indymedia.org/node/20596
*http://bicicritica.ourproject.org
**http://bicicritica.ourproject.org/ecotopia-biketour-2012-barcelona-venecia-decrecimiento
* http://estrecho.indymedia.org/
**http://estrecho.indymedia.org/evento/ecotopia-biketour-2012-barcelona-venecia-decrecimiento
* https://publish.indymedia.org/earth/servlet/OpenMir?do=opensession&sessiontype=content
**http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2012/05/957004.shtml
*http://gaia.org.pt/
**http://gaia.org.pt/node/16316
* http://carbusters.org/ (check email to follow up)
** http://carbusters.org/2012/05/27/ecotopia-biketour-cycling-towards-degrowth/
* http://biciosxs.prouespeculacio.org/categorias/viajes
* http://www.worldcarfree.net/bulletin/
**http://worldcarfree.net/bulletin/archives/may_12.html
* http://amies.revuesilence.net/spip.php?article73
* http://www.facebook.com/massacriticabcn?sk=wall
* http://www.decrecimiento.info/
**http://www.decrecimiento.info/2012/05/ecotopia-biketour-2012.html
* http://prod.galiza.indymedia.org/
* http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/
* http://grenoble.indymedia.org/
* http://italy.indymedia.org/
* http://laplana.indymedia.org/
* http://london.indymedia.org/
* https://linksunten.indymedia.org/
* http://nantes.indymedia.org/
* http://napoli.indymedia.org/
* http://paris.indymedia.org/
* http://roma.indymedia.org/
* http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
* http://abruzzo.indymedia.org/

==Winter meeting==

[[Wintermeeting 2012]]

This year the winter meeting will be held in Cerbere on the French side of the Spain/France border. For more info click [[Wintermeeting 2012|here]].

==BT 2012 workshop==

Last year in Italy we held a workshop by a lake which looked as the past present and future of biketour, find the [[BT 2012 workshop notes]] here.

==Money from past years==
500€ from last year with Helene, R&D bank details given

310.70€ with Alice in cash (460.70€ minus 150€ used to pay the translator)

João payed for the trailers axels (needs refunding - not priority)

==Links==
[[Links 2012]]

==Degrowth and the Conference in Venice==

[[Degrowth Workshop]] Can Decreix 21st July

There is a big Degrowth conference from 19th-23rd September 2012, Research and Degrowth here in Barcelona are involved with organising this and it has been proposed that this is the final destination of the tour. We aim to find a camp outside of town to unite us rather than scattering through the city. We would link with the conference with some kind of action and negotiate free entry for BT participants for part of the conference.

[http://www.venezia2012.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DEGROWTH-CONFERENCE-VENICE-short1.pdf Here] is the latest conference information available in english.

[http://www.venezia2012.it/?lang=en Here] is the conference website.

BT FLOSS Outcomes

2013-04-10T11:32:51Z

Nickmd: /* Voice over IP */

Here is a simplified list based on the information from the suggestions page -hopefully to help narrow things down a bit:

'''Please put notes / or suggestions on the [[Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools]] page.

== eMail ==

*Host mailboxes with Ecobytes
*Mail client: Squirrel Mail with Thunderbird for Offline mail

== Calendar ==

*lightning add for thunderbird
*linux calendar
*Dudle ?

== Website & Blog ==

*Remain as it is.

== Voice over IP ==

Choice 1:
*Own hosted XMPP jingle (or Jabber)
*Client -still to be decided (see suggestions)(Note: wouldn't necessarily be necessary to choose on a client as a group - but only on a communications standard which these could all access!)
*Linphone ?

Choice 2:
*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==

*Crabgrass
*LibreOffice

==Collaborative project / task management==

*Crabgrass
*Fengu Community Adition (hosted by our own server)

== Collaborative Mapping ==

*Open Street Map - example here: [http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org]
*Open Map Quest [http://open.mapquest.co.uk/] (OSS but company of AOL) ?? (compromise until suitable alternative??)

== File hosting / File sharing ==

*FTP with filezilla
*Sparkleshare (secure?? - hosted by our own server??)
*Ubuntu One (not really FLOSS ?)

== Social Networking ==

*Diaspora
*Encourage use of RSS feeds
*Forums and discussion pages - maybe this is the next step - but possibly not for 2013 - unless you can help us make this happen (????)
*we.riseup.net / Crabgrass (for BT Orgs)

== Micro Blogging ==

*Identica (linked to Dispora so that we do not duplicate work)

== Web > tel : Bridging ==

*No real outcome yet - (see suggestions page)

== Graphics Tools ==

For 2D Graphics:
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!

Publishing:
*Scribus (alternative to indesign)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

For Audio / Video Editing:
*Kedenlive
*Lightworks (from May 2013)
*Audacity (audio)

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

*Pingu
*Diaspora (?)
*Plumi [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux

For smartphone or tablet
*Android (with modified version ie cyanogen mod)

== Other Tools ???? ==

*freedom box!
* RSS readers

==Tools and website which support a free web==

Microdonations:
*flatter
*Mifos

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-08T10:17:31Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*LibreOffice
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)
*[http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] - can be installed on our own server? I think there's a risup host too. Also pirate pad.

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-08T10:16:34Z

Nickmd: /* Micro Blogging */

Add your recommendations and comments on the possible FLOS communication tools below:

The aim of this page is to collect a list of possible libre and open-source information and communication technology tools for Biketour purposes.

General arguments about '''why''' ecotopiabiketour aims to use and promote FLOS, can be found [[arguments for FLOS biketour ICTs | here]].

Keep adding your suggestions below - an overview of the most promising/likely tools from this list for BT (so far) can be found here: [[BT FLOSS Outcomes]]

==Places to Look / Forums / FLOSS lists==

* FLOSS manuals [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/] - really useful list of some FLOSS software in similar categories to the one below
* RU's Radical Services list [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
* Tech Tools for Activism ebook: [http://flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/]
* Valo-cd [http://www.valo-cd.net/html-ui-en/index.html]
* Free Sofware Foundation [http://fsfe.org/]

== eMail ==
''Currently: mostly Google:
But not the lists - these are run by Ecobytes :)

'''Preferences:'''
To ensure communication from "outside" and "within" the Biketour Organisers collective.
Something that is secure, private, does not steal our data; and will possible filter our messages by subject; keep our lovely name@ecotopiabiketour addresses; with unlimited or lots of 'labels';

'''Known Alternatives:'''
*Mail services from tech collectives such as the riseup birds / Nodo50 / Nadir / So36 / N-1:
** See RU's Radical Services list here [https://help.riseup.net/en/radical-servers]
*Round-cube
*Squirrel Mail
*Thunderbird
*Use one of the many free email addresses that often come along with a web hosting contract: If any association or person rents a webspace and registres a domai such as www.myname.net or www.nicepeople.org, sometimes up to 50 email addresses can be installed easily, using the ending @myname.net or @nicepeople.org. If you organise yourself with 50 friends, pay 10eur per month of hosting fees and give everyone an email address, then this would be 20cents per month per person. For email in you own hands, without helping a big corporation making more profit, without advertisement and sometimes even much more ecological.

'''Adding Encryption'''

*GPG is the standard (and the highest one too): the easiest way to install this is to use thunderbird with the enigmail add-on installed: from there setup through the wizard is fairly easy. Then, don't forget to share your public key (but not your private one!) with anyone who you want to send encrypted email to you. Everyone should setup email encryption, otherwise you're writing your emails as if on a postcard.
*add-ons for GPG should also be available for other email clients such as outlook (but why use outlook - it's not FLOSS)
*It would be good to install some sort of encryption for the mailing lists too - what software are our current ones on? Sympa definitely has this as a possibility - a quick internet search found a few.
* does this offer a way of encrypting a mailing list? [http://www.raphinou.com/smailman/smailman.html mailman, GnuPG and Exim]

== Calendar ==
''Currently use Gcal :(

'''Preference:''' For Diary Planning. For arranging meetings. Within the email service or not.

'''Known Alternatives:

*ical/caldav are open formats (I think) and it should be fairly easy to install a CalDav or ical server on the ecobytes hosting service... a quick search of sourceforge threw up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/?source=directory
*Then there are a huge range of clients available that can support these - the lightning add-on for thunderbird can do it, and most linux distros will have their own clients. These clients will generally support gcal as well, which makes the transition easier...

*Doodle
*Paper and pen

== Website & Blog ==
''Currently: wordpress-based, privately hosted website through the very cool Ecobytes :) ''

== Voice over IP ==
''Currently: mostly private Skype accounts :(
'''Preferences:''' Voice and or video meetings.

'''Known Alternatives:

*THere is an open VOIP standard - XMPP (or more specifically the jingle extension to it).
http://www.jabber.org/ hosts XMPP accounts - it might be possible to host our own as well??
There are a variety of clients available for this: see this list ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 list of clients]). Google Talk also uses this protocol which means that people using other clients/hosts can talk to people using Google Talk. (unlike skype - where you have to be on skype)

*SIP is another standard

*Mumble
*Pigin (supports XMPP)
*Adium (for Mac OS)

== Collaborative working on texts / documents / archive==
''Currently: mediawiki wiki - but its not 'secure'

'''Preferences:''' Getting organised / handover / archive / storage / public space with private options

'''Known Alternatives
*Crabgrass
*LibreOffice
*Ethercalc [http://ethercalc.net/] (where does the data get stored though????)

==Collaborative project / task management==

'''Preferences: a shared collaborative task management list - maybe in groups by topic

* Bettermeans http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html (open source / democratic but not 'private')
*Fengu (?)

== Collaborative Mapping ==
''Previously: Gmaps and Street maps

'''Preferences:''' Decentrally collecting tips for places to visit, lay out routes, mark interesting regions, overlap with other interesting thematical maps/layers (e.g. from other tours or bike maps)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Street Map
* http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
** a typical example how big corporations (mis-)use open source data for their own purposes: mapquest is a company of AOL.
**But it does use open data and allow it to be edited - and the search works
* http://osmtools.de/easymap/
** takes a little while to get used to it, but pretty self-explaining. unfortunately not suitable for collaboration, since the map has to be locally saved (and then transferred on a web site) each time.

- this map was made with easymap: http://www.memfarado.org/projects/ecotopiabiketour/2013/route/map/map.html

'''Examples'''
* http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org : collaborative mapping of solidarity economy

== File hosting / File sharing ==

'''Preferences:''' Anyone being able to easily provide larger files for exchange (photos, maps, ...) which are too big for mailing lists and might not interest everyone on a list.

'''Known Alternatives:
*wiki (not secure and not really the purpose of it, but possible)
*FTP as the technology; FTP clients (like filezilla) as the tool
*EyeOS (?)
*sparkleshare?
*samba and openVPN to share a folder over the internet - might be complicated, might be insecure - but might also allow a folder to be mounted as if a local folder, cross-platform? Probably wouldn't be good for huge amounts of people.
*torrents - good for sharing really large files but needs a few people to have the file in the first place...
*Ubuntuone - not ideal but better than google docs as linked to the development of OS-software

== Social Networking ==
''Currently we have a facebook page with 1000's of likes :(

'''Preferences:''' Something that does not track our friends or circles for suspicious behavior when we think it is a closed network ... it is not.
Something that connects us as a 'bridge' to the mainstream - so we do not constantly talk within the same circles... our 'outreach' of you will.

'''Known Alternatives:
*Diaspora
This is a federated and decentralised social network - and originated the idea of having different aspects (groups of contacts you can share something with - which was then copied by facebook and google plus).[https://github.com/diaspora/wp-post-to-diaspora plugin to post to diaspora from wordpress]
*we.riseup.net (based on the crabgrass software; not mainstream)
*Identica
* "simple, good old" forums:
** Ecotopia Forum from the website ??? ''would probably not have the same 'reach'
*related to social networking - we should encourage people to use rss feeds as a way of getting updates about bt/ news in general - this is an open standard and better than using facebook/twitter/etc. See bottom of page for more on this.

== Micro Blogging ==
''Currently we have a Twitter account but do not use it :)
**we should delete this, or make it clear that people should go to an equivalent on identi.ca from within its description --Nick--

'''Preferences:''' Same as above

'''Known Alternatives:
*Identi.ca (and the status net software [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet statusnet]. Looks like a new 'pump.io' piece of software is also being worked on).
*wordpress (also works for above..not sure if this counts as microblogging!)

'''Question:''' is this really essential communication????

== Web > tel : Bridging ==
''Currently use expensive sms mobile phones :(

'''Preferences:''' Cheap way of providing (short) info (sms style) to global phone networks from the web (for example when we are on the road or others are on the road to join us)

'''Known Alternatives:
*Not sending them
*Web phone ???
*some countries may have specific networks that allow this: e.g. Orange in Moldova...

== Graphics Tools ==

'''Preferences:''' To make things look cool with a conscience...

'''Know Alternatives:
*Lightworks (Non Linear video editing (comparable to FCP) - due to be released as OSS on Linux: 30 April 2013!!!!!!!)
*Blender (animation)
*Gimp (vector designs and 2d artwork)
**Gimpshop (building on gimp but trying to be like photoshop)
*inkscape (vector images): our logo was made with this!
*Scribus (publishing software - alternative to Adobe indesign) (or a complicated/sophisticated version of publisher)
*Libre Office - Libre Draw and Libre Impress

== Photo / Video / Media Sharing ==

''Currently an internal gallery & private flickr and Youtube accounts :(

'''Preferences:''' To share our beautiful experiences as images and slide shows

'''Know Alternatives:
*Pingu
*Diaspora and associated cubbi.es (how organisable is this?)
*Plumi ? [http://blog.plumi.org/about/] (video sharing)

== Operating Systems ==

*Linux!
The BIG one! This brings all of the above tools together and makes them easy, simple and fun: and makes sure you don't have microsoft or apple spyware on your computer! Plus, it's creative and gives you loads of possibilities for making your computer, laptop or tablet work and look the way you want.
**Loads of options here: debian, ubuntu, linux mint, Open Suse - and different desktops: unity, cinnamon, KDE, gnome...take your pick and enjoy it!

*and for smartphone or tablet (if these have to be used)
*Android, NOT Iphone..
**but ideally a modified version such as cyanogen mod which doesn't have the closed source google programs (and potentially spyware) on it.

== Other Tools ???? ==
''Tools we are not yet aware of???

'''Preferences:''' That will make our online lives a better place - maybe a personal project? :)

'''Know Alternatives:
*freedom box!
**a project to do what it says on the tin, freedom and privacy for the home, all of the above made easy! Look it up, check it out, contribute and support it in any way you can.

* RSS readers - these come in both open source and proprietary formats - open source is better, but any are good - rss and atom feeds are a great open standard for 'following' webpages and getting updates and news - this means you don't have to follow something on twitter or facebook
**There are addons for firefox etc. which will do this: e.g. Newsfox

==Tools and website which support a free web==

* microdonations - because although there's free lunches from skips, and free software is free as in liberty (and sometimes free as in beer), if we can buy the developer a few coffees everyone ends up better off: mutual aid! Flattr looks like a good one for this - but they take a commission on donations (5-10%).

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T23:10:24Z

Nickmd: /* Other Tools ???? */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T22:55:33Z

Nickmd: /* Other Tools ???? */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T22:10:37Z

Nickmd: /* Social Networking */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T21:23:40Z

Nickmd: /* Micro Blogging */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T21:22:11Z

Nickmd: /* Social Networking */ added rss feeds

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T21:20:23Z

Nickmd: /* Other Tools ???? */ rss reader

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T21:17:59Z

Nickmd: /* eMail */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:49:01Z

Nickmd: /* File hosting / File sharing */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:43:44Z

Nickmd: /* Social Networking */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:41:00Z

Nickmd: Added operating systems

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:24:37Z

Nickmd: /* Photo Sharing */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:23:35Z

Nickmd: /* Micro Blogging */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:21:45Z

Nickmd: /* Web > tel : Bridging */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:20:34Z

Nickmd: /* File hosting / File sharing */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:17:08Z

Nickmd: /* File hosting / File sharing */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:15:14Z

Nickmd: /* Collaborative Mapping */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T19:14:19Z

Nickmd: /* Voice over IP */ added jabber/xmpp

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T18:39:41Z

Nickmd: /* Calendar */ added ical/gcal

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T18:37:21Z

Nickmd: /* eMail */

Suggestions for FLOS biketour IC tools

2013-04-04T18:33:03Z

Nickmd: added stuff about encryption