I want to start an online anarchist research university. Fuck signalling and degrees and publication count, I want to host a place where people come to collaborate on building knowledge and to learn and teach things. Not so you can "improve your resume" or "get a job" or create connections to help get you hired or any capitalist bullshit. Just specifically because you either want to know something, or you do know something and want to share it with others.
And I want to build it starting now.
I think one of the first steps is to create some online collaboration space and recruit some people to participate. I want to host it myself for the moment. And I want something I can host on yunohost to keep the cost of admin down.
i looked at "collaboration" in the app list and found "Tracim" and it looks... pretty interesting? Who has used it?
Its not easy to imagine how this thing works exactly. But I want to recruit people who have questions and potential research projects, as well as people who have mentorship and skills to help guide that research.
This kind of expands beyond my original idea of doing some videos where I personally help people do some kind of modeling and data analysis, and into a kind of broader ecosystem not focused on me but focused on groups collaborating on common goals...
@dlakelan Have you read about the Science House?
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/lets-build-a-fleet-and-change-the
The team I'm part of at @digiresacademy has been thinking about how to do something similar, but focusing on #MetaResearch / #OpenResearch. We run an event called the Open Science Retreat, and often think "what if this wasn't limited to a week?"...
Daniel Lakeland
Danny Garside