Octree news - spring 2024
Commons ça va in 2024?
How can we build viable commons? No one has the answer, but everyone agrees on certain necessary elements: they must be redistributive, inclusive and operate under shared governance, enabling everyone to benefit from and contribute to them.
We're convinced that digital commons have a key role to play in ecological and social transitions. Octree is our laboratory for experimenting how they evolve the distributed governance of a team, its projects and their business models!
On the self-organization side: The Voca circle focuses on its strategy and moves production roles up to the Octree circle to harmonize our release cycles.
Pasts
Welcome Maylie! Maylie is doing a development internship as part of her Bachelor's degree.
Our Voca project is featured in the Fabrique Spinoza's report for the Happiness of Territories, find it here! (french)
Futures
Mapping semantic digital resilience: we're part of it! Explore the full map here.
Decentralization, fediverse, sounds complicated? Not as complicated as you might think: Tim provides an introduction to the Semantic Web in this article.
Rethinking our world
Decidim has finally published its book, in free access!
Timothée Parrique explores the links between capitalism and degrowth during Climate Week (@1h49), a fine synthesis! (in french)
An article about theenshitiffaction of the web and the end of social networks 2.0, spoiler: there's life afterwards! (in french)
An excellent France Culture podcast: The "commons": an alternative to digital capitalism? (in french)
The whole team looks forward to seeing you this spring!
The Octree team
source: https://mailchi.mp/9767e6b4abdb/octree-news-septembre-15379574
Image: CC-BY-SA - photo: Thomas Rüesch
