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Let’s try and simplify the #OMN

The #OMN Framework: The Five Functions (#5F) The #OMN is simple flows, not platforms, it’s a way of thinking about media as flows of objects moving through a network. If people can’t picture how the system works, they can’t govern it. Think: pipes, flows, and holding tanks. Content flows. People shape the flow, you can find a more technical view to read after here. A human-scale, federated media infrastructure built on #FOSS practices and the #4opens: open data open source open […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/lets-try-and-simplify-the-omn/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 13

A bit of #OMN history and where the current paths come from

For a long time the focus has been on solving two linked problems - both of which are actually #nothingnew. The first is grassroots publishing and organising. The second is network coordination between communities. Neither of these problems started with the internet, and they certainly didn’t start with Silicon Valley. Projects like #Indymedia and community organising networks solved these problems culturally long before modern platforms existed. They worked through shared practice, trust […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/a-bit-of-omn-history-and-where-the-current-paths-come-from/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 10

EU tech strategy, composting the mess

As #climatechaos accelerates, European politics will not stay where it is now. History suggests that periods of instability push politics to the right, because right-wing politics tends to be driven by fear and control. If that trajectory holds, then the digital infrastructure we build today needs to be resilient in a more hostile political environment tomorrow. This matters for the EU’s current technology strategy. Most policy thinking still focuses on industrial competitiveness - AI […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/eu-tech-strategy-composting-the-mess/

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hamish campbell Mar 9

@shoq there are a few people working on this #OMN #indymediaback :)

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 2

Oxford: Rising With The Flood

This story was sparked by worrying about water quality in the UK, on the map above, it's sewage everywhere https://www.sewagemap.co.uk/ The turds are active now, the red is active recently. The story is about this nasty mess set a few years before the longer Oxford story of refuges. The characters are idealised/generalised versions of existing people, boaters, student journalist and collage bureaucrats I have met at meany events. the rowers come from watching this film. The setting and […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/rising-with-the-flood/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Feb 27

Why good faith is a technical requirement for #FOSS

If you’ve spent years in #FOSS, you’ve likely developed a strong allergy to vague political language. You care about licenses, reproducibility, governance models, and whether something actually runs. Good. That discipline is why free software exists at all. But here’s the uncomfortable question, what if the biggest blocker to the #openweb right now isn’t technical debt - but social debt? And what if “good faith” is not a moral nicety, but a core infrastructure requirement? The […]

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hamish campbell Feb 5

@warmsignull Currently, this morning's project is juggling a seed group of student journalist in Oxford to reboot https://oxford.indymedia.org.uk/ to motivate the scattered unfunded tech crew to work on the #indymediaback codebase they will need, very real chicken-and-egg problem :)

I could list another handful of projects, but you can find articles on the site your self, also meany past projects. We do need to compost this as I am losing the will to work chatting to people online ;)

UK Indymedia - Oxford indymedia

Oxford indymedia is a part of Indymedia UK. Indymedia UK is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues

#OMN (Open Media Network)Feb 5

Yes, its messy stepping out of the churn

Everywhere we look - what we see, touch, and use - we are living inside systems shaped by decades of economic and technological assumptions. This isn’t only something happening “out there”. It has been normalised and internalised over the last forty years. The dominance of #stupidindividualism, combined with rigid economic dogma, influenced how we design technology, how we organise communities, and how we imagine progress itself. The outcomes are now starkly visible: #climatechaos, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/yes-its-messy-stepping-out-of-the-churn/

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hamish campbell Jan 23

@cwebber then why not make something real and useful like an #indymediaback codebase from the #spritly work you are doing.

Like meany people, it looks interesting but have no idea if it does anything.

Rebel need tools.

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jan 22

Europe, the Fediverse, and the story we failed to tell

A bunch of native #openweb people spent real time, energy, and focus pushing the #EU toward the #Fediverse. This wasn’t theoretical, it wasn’t speculative, it wasn’t a #NGO whitepaper or a #VC funding pitch. It was practical outreach, grounded in working technology and lived experience, aimed at reducing Europe’s dependency on centralized corporate platforms. One concrete moment of this work was the webinar organised between the European Commission and the ActivityPub community: […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/europe-the-fediverse-and-the-story-we-failed-to-tell/