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A Place on Every Block

A collaborative book about creative communities, the spaces we require as embodied creatures, and the social place-hood we collectively form. A seed, to become a wiki, based on the journey-as-recipe of Sudo Room, a creative community and hacker space in Oakland, California.

Rough Outline

1. Introduction - Seeded beforehand, re-written at the end
2. Inspirations - Jenny
   1. From the Printing Press to The Pirate Bay: A Social History of Technological Change
      1. The Printing Press and the Fragmentation of Religious Feudal Authority
      2. The Rise of the American Middle Class: Communications Media as Tools for Leisure, Profit, Politics and Publics
      3. Computer-Mediated Communication in Historical Context
      4. The Social and Political Implications of New Media
   2. Hacker Origins and Culture - Andrew?
   3. Political-Economics and Finance - Anthony
   4. Models and Governance
   5. Law and Precedence - Eddan
3. Sudo Room, A Recipe - Matt
   1. History
   2. Values and Tactics - Marina
      1. Startegizing and acting with scaling as a primary consideration
      2. Organizing based on p2p principles
      3. Creating and Nurturing Open, Inclusive Communities
      4. Social Technologies for Collaboration
      5. Livelihood Hacking - Morten
   3. Perspectives - Vignettes, multiple authors
      1. Wrought
      2. JnnY
      3. Juul
4. Directions and Murmurs (the future) - Possibly written at the end, or after v0.1
   1. BACH: The Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces