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Goal: To build a sustainable online community. |
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-Use sustainable tools |
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--Free Software (Open Source Software) |
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---Example: phpBB |
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---Not reliant on a single company |
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---Available to all users |
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---Freedom to study, modify, redistribute the software |
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-Benefits |
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--User-controlled content and information feel more secure/comfortable |
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-Tools to avoid |
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--One-way data relationship |
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---Company receives data on users, users not privy to company actions |
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---Information stored there by users liable to be lost with site closure (not sustainable) |
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-Give users full control over data |
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-Respect the privacy of users |
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-Methods to avoid |
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--Disperse students among too many disparate social media platforms with no clear recommendation |
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---Results in factions that have few intercommunity exchanges |
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-Steps to form the community |
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--Also known as: creating the "artistic design" of the community |
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--Create the software tools |
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--Attract user interest |
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---Ongoing public art and/or projects |
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----Decentralized approach, no single creator |
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--Maintain the international online community |
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---Welcome newcomers, ease the transition into the fold |
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-Potential setbacks |
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--Differences in language |
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-Potential community platforms |
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--Email list with public archive |
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---Good for readable resource rather than in-the-moment community |
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---Ability to scan and skim content |
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---Decentralized |
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---Setback: Easy for email to be lost in the inbox shuffle |
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--Wiki |
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---Managed by the users themselves |
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---Sustainable: multiple user-editors means multiple avenues for content addition |
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---Centralized: all users working together on a single resource in one location |
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---Good for lists |
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----Project priorities, needs |
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---Display pertinent information immediately (vs. a forum thread) |
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---Setback: Not the best for general community discussion |
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----Potentially scattered conversations in a variety of locations |
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----Difficult for any one user to locate it all |
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----May be avoided with clearly designated comment sections |
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--Discussion forum such as phpBB |
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---Easily bring new users into the ongoing conversation |
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---Setback: Less skimmable, harder to find information |
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----May be mitigated with outside resources that direct the user to the appropriate locations |
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----Still blitzable |
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---Posts added chronologically |
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----Easier to follow conversation |
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----More difficult to sort by subject |
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-----Mitigated by good organization of subforums |
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---Specifically, phpBB? |
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----Alternatives |
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-----Markdown: not intuitive |
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-----User-entered HTML: more freedom, but easily mangled |
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--Combination of the above |
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--Additional tools |
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---Something like Dropbox, file-sharing source |
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-Within the community |
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--Raise the awareness of sustainability |
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-Names |
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--Sustainable Online Platform |
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--Eierlegende Wollmilchsau |
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---Very useful, but quite ambitious |
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-Questions |
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--How can we get those sustainable tools? |
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---Start with current tools, move to initial platforms, move to more sustainable resources |
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--How can we attract people there to form an online community? |
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---Social Media Group willing to introduce new students to the sustainable platforms |
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--How can we keep them there and make the online community sustainable? |
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--How can we raise awareness of sustainability in that community? |
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---Community feeds itself with art and science |
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---Focus on a topic of sustainability for these projects |
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-Why is the OTT sustainable? |
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--Traditions that keep the community together |
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---Versus potentially alienating newcomers (why?) |
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--Friendly population |
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---Creative, intelligent |
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---Not what created the OTT, but rather a result of it |
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--Use of Wiki |
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---Links from signatures in the thread to it |
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---Well-written |
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---Kept up to date |
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---Used to further understand the thread |
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---Centered around community rather than artwork |
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--Blitzing |
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---Newcomers encouraged to start at beginning |
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---Read entire content |
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---Experience formation of community personally |
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---Help and motivation from the Present community |
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----Blitzer tools (Example: mrobdex) |
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---Means of accessing community history |
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---Artistic reward while blitzing (the ONGed OTC) |
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--Willingness to assimilate weird new things |
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---User presentation (avatars), communication formatting (footnotes), manner of speech |
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---Perhaps result of competing tensions: desire to follow OTC and onset of Madness |
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----Created core set of users not dissuaded by unexpected changes |
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----Easier to welcome new traditions |
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----Flexible community |
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-----Flexibility fosters sustainability |
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---Commmunity knowledge that all users have opportunity to contribute own traditions |
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----More apt to participate in others' traditions |
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-Sustainable community conclusions |
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--Be willing to experiment, hear new ideas, adapt to the unfamiliar |
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--Promote individual creativity and recognize user contributions |
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--Optional traditions rather than mandatory |
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-Why is Drawception not sustainable? |
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--Very young (in age) community based around a game |
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--Arguments over procedurals (gameplay) |
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---Reminiscent of heated OTT discussions over "how to blitz" |
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--Game site trying to be social media site |
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---Tension between game and social aspects |
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----Results in a split userbase |
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----Opposing "sides" with differing goals |
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----Community fights self rather than fostering self |
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---Social tools inadequate |
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----No private messages |
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----Unmoderated forums |
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----Hundreds of tiny, scattered comment sections that are difficult to find |
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-----Impossible to read it all |
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--Little sense of heritage |
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---More focused on current games and daily trends |
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--Potential fix: singular foundation? |
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Misc |
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-Creation of appropriate forms of expression for furthering awareness of sustainability |
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-Non-technical maintenance of international online communities |
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-catalog of requirements for the implementation of the online platforms according to the goals of the project |
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