Australian Social Forum

I am developing the idea further of a permaculture workers cooperative

permaculture is a world wide, grass-roots movement, and with economic and ecological crisis forcing many from work and home, permaculture offers practical tools and systems for regaining life support systems

I have made some connections with the Green Worker Coop in NYC, see below, and am hoping that its feasible to incubate the permaculture workers cooperative and permaculture tv there or at least use te Green Worker Coop as a model

http://www.greenworker.coop

in short; the global Permaculture Worker Cooperative will have a website that is a kind of social network, a Facebook or Myspace for permaculture workers cooperation, this online network, will faciliate the on-the-ground networking and cooperation amongst permacuture workers and cooperators

the Permaculture Worker Coop website and online social network will contain the following elements;

• people
• projects
• wiki pages
• video
• audio
• blogs
• maps

I have independently registered the domains permacultureworker.coop, DOMAIN NOT LIVE permaculturecooperative.org DOMAIN NOT LIVE and permaculture.tv BETA *amongst others*

I am hoping to model the web aspect of the project on the Livable Streets project also running out of NYC, using the same open source software, called The OpenPlans Project

• http://www.streetfilms.org/
• http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/ 
• http://www.openplans.org/

we also had great success with this OpenCore Plone based software at the European Social Forum, the and is being used by the World Social Forum, which hosts this blog, the beginning of organising for the Australian Social Forum

• http://openesf.net/ - Istanbul 2010 European Social Forum
• http://openfsm.net/ - Belem, Brazil, Jan 2009 World Social Forum
• http://www.australiansocialforum.org    TBD ?? ? ?  Australian Social Forum

I think its absoluteley imperative that this project be global in scale, not be tied to any national identity, be grassroots focussed and centred on the permaculture worker…

I have been working as a volunteer with the media center, the interpretation systems team and the memory project  at the ESF in Malmo Sweden and am hoping to get across to NYC

 ESF 2008 - Another Europe is Possible

•   http://www.esf2008.org
•   http://www.flickr.com/photos/esf2008/

 

as you know, permaculture is a world wide, grass-roots movement, and with economic and ecological crisis forcing many from work and home, permaculture offers practical tools and systems for regaining life support systems

another world is possible

-N