Really Simple Social Action RSSA

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Really Simple Social ActionRSSA

• Tom Munnecke
• BarCamp San Diego
• June 2, 2007
• Tom_at_munnecke.com

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Why Social Action Networks?

• Massively Scaled, fine grained network
• Getting Small in a Big Way
• Discovering Scalable Small Things
• Create Path of Least Resistance to a Better World
• Centered on actions, not organizations.

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Search/Amplify model

• Discover whats working and how to do more of it
• Feedback loop to detect net results
• Self-organizing, self-propagating
• Start simple, let system evolve
• Viral architecture each additional node
  increases capacity
• Network Abundance model

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Plan/Execute

• Decide what needs to be done and follow plan to
  make it happen.
• Complex systems require complex management
• Cost-driven
• Based on scarcity of time, money, resources.

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Very Large Scale UpliftVLSU

• Lots of people doing little things
• 6 billion people
• Build network connections
• Build network of trust
• Peer to peer
• Route around damage
• Smart Edges design

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RSSA goals

• Open source approach
• Build on syndication model for bi-directional
  communication
• Connect actions to activity spaces
• Build on microformats - allow network to
  bootstrap new, improved formats
• Provide infrastructure for others to build upon.

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Development Process

• Define RSSA architecture
• Define use cases
• Prototype an activity space
• Drupal Organic groups?
• Wiki
• Develop web site www.rssa.org

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Evolution of the Web
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Interested?Please join the effort

• http//rssa.org
• http//groups.google.com/group/rssa/
• Tom_at_munnecke.com
• http//upliftacademy.org