Would it be useful to create a website like DU for #OWS members to share technique

[Fire Walk With Me]

(media/tech, food, medical, legal) with all other groups?

If some sort of pulic forum for sharing victories, ideas, techniques and strategy would be beneficial...I personally don't have the money or any of the required skills...It's a thought. There have been several folks asking here how to begin their own city's occupation so a "how-to" forum with FAQs would be great, and some directory of all #Occupy web sites and streaming, etc.

Good idea? Bad idea? Too soon? Unneeded? They're doing fine as-is? I'm wary of ideas which would in any way deflect the amazing process they've established.

[xiamiam]

1. they have a website..perhaps you could suggest it there..nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. I've tried nycga.cc and occupywallstreet.org but no go..where is this site?

I'm surprised I don't even know this offhand, it's important enough...

[xiamiam]

13. the nycga is the one i was talking about as it just went up a few days ago..nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. "Feedback" at nycga.cc gives a 503 error, and nycga.net can't connect...

[RKP5637]

18. It's back up again (I think). I just got to it ...

http://nycga.cc/

[RKP5637]

2. One problem is, it might become a focal point for surveillance and disinformation. Right now

it's somewhat obfuscated.

[leveymg]

5. Everything that gets written here is Open Source, and subject to monitoring, as is. The troll

problem, however, might present challenges on an unprecedented scale and use a lot of Moderator resources. These are factors that Skinner and the others will have to consider, if indeed they haven't already done so.

It's a natural fit - OWS on DU. I like the way it sounds and feels.

[RKP5637]

17. I think your idea of adding an OWS forum to DU is excellent. n/t

[leveymg]

3. OWS should request its own forum. Just ask Admin.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Absolutely. It's their game. Thanks everyone for the replies!

[SoapBox]

6. That's a great idea!

...and, as I just posted in another message, here is the OWS site as it stands.

http://occupywallst.org/

[Exultant Democracy]

7. +1

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9. Ow wait, you mean here ON DU? #OWS sort of obsoletes the Democratic party, ya know...

and the rest of the corrupt political process...I don't know about that, it's outside the scope of DU and brings partisanship to #OWS...

[leveymg]

10. DU is not the Democratic Party. We're what's left of the resistance to BushCo that hasn't sold out

to the official Democratic Party. That includes many self-identifying lifetime Democratic activists, like me. But, we are NOT the Democratic Party, unfortunately.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. Yes, and I'm part of it, but isn't discussion leading to the end of the Democratic party frowned

upon?

[leveymg]

14. Musings about how OWS obsoletes the Democratic Party doesn't make it so.

I take no offense in such talk. We all hope for some sort of Grand Transformation. Kinda like Clarke's "Childhood's End" - if it's going to happen, freaking out or trying to forbid discussion about it isn't going to stop it. I see no reason why OWS and DU are incompatible.

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Someone unrecced this attempt to gather ideas and support. One vote for bankers received!

:hi:

[Rabblevox]

16. Good idea, a bit late. It's www.occupytogether.org...

Check especially their resources and forum pages.

Our local Occupation in PDX also has an incredibly useful resource/info page.

www.occupytogether.org

www.occupypdx.org

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. Superb, thank you very much!