I’m prepared to go anywhere anyone else suggests or better still help in setting up a new jointly organised space, although I hafta point out that whilst proud of my limited IT skills, they are confined to networking and security issues, I am equally proud of my ability to have got this far on so little html. Which is my way of saying I can’t build the front end of a site for shit. But considering our needs aren’t that great, just a space that can display our disparate thoughts robustly free from the sort of bulldust that a few anti freedom of speech assholes have wreaked on Lespeak although that side of it will be the toughest part of the site because it requires constant work something than none of us ever gave b enough credit for.
If we do this we have to acknowledge that parts of it will be a deadly grind. In other words make sure you can spare time before you commit.
Last week after I saw b’s notice to terminate, I shot over to wordpress.com and opened a free blog there, not with a view to replacing MoA because even if I wanted to I doubt I could and these freebie sites have a number of limitations, not the least of which is bandwidth – after all even the open source community has to pay for shit in our wonderful consumerist society (concentrate on the task at hand DiD) but as a temporay refuge for us to gather our thoughts, gird our loins and whatever else it is we need to do before embarking on a new project. However since Juan has been kind enough to offer his blog and I am not yet convinced that free wordpress blogs could withstand a sustained attack from these assholes I won’t put the url out yet, it may better serve as either a backup or an invitation only site for likeminded individuals to use as base to construct the next big thing.
Which we need to get on with I’ve still got a couple of weeks spare before I go back, so I wouldn’t mind getting on with it. However someone has to take charge if we are going to do this because the best sawg’s (semi-autonomous work groups) have a leader. Just in case that statement got anyone worried don’t I wasn’t meaning me. The person who takes on the co-ordination team leader role needs to be located in either europe or amerika so they are close to web servers and the like (there is only one not very fat pipe running in and out of where I live) and in time zones that don’t clash with everyone else’s when real time communication is necessary.
I know many of you have lines of communication with each other outside this board (that came out considerably more paranoic than I intended LoL) and I suggest that those are used for some of these early decisions.
The alternative to let this community fade away because it’s time has passed is attractive from some points of view particularly in light of the last few weeks hissy fits but that is an overly extreme reaction – trampling on a resource which many have repeatedly stated they still need.
Because make no mistake it will be needed by a lot more people in the next little period of the world, although this site fell apart over one particular issue but really it could have been any one of a score of issues. Some of us predicted times would be tough for peeps who thought like us during the oblamblam period but we didn’t consider that would mean moA so we kept on taking it for granted (sorry about that b).
As other activists can attest, humans like us who favour truthfulness over blind loyalty to clay footed parasites, are usually put under the greatest threat during times of a pseudo-leftist administration. The uniting force of war with conservatism keeps the limp wristed bourgeois bullshit quaffers from nit-picking and back biting us too much when the conservative greedheads reign supreme, but once they imagine they have the brass ring firmly in their grasp, us mob, their former allies, are the first bunch they turn on, as they kiss the asses of the greed headed despots they had previously been throwing damp sqibs at.
So let’s do it then.

Posted by: Debs is dead | Jul 4 2009 22:55 utc | 102