Australian Social Forum

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Image: niccolo and egj in Brooklyn

Its almost a year since I originally proposed the Australian Social Forum (no doubt I am not the first to do so, but there is nothing active as far as I can tell)

The Melbourne Social Forum has agreed to auspice the domain www.AustralianSocialForum.org.au  which is now assigned and active.

Join the website and the Australian Social Forum Strategy project www.australiansocialforum.org.au/projects/asf-strategy 

WARNING There are a few bugs to fix - JPEG image uploads into profiles and blog links. 

Also, key research to be done especially around formal aspects of the World Social Forum proces: 10 objectives of WSF, 21 actionable themes, WSF memory and documentation, Charter, process etc. Am hoping Hilge can give me the WSF Crash Course.

I have been in the USA and now Europe researching a permaculture workers-cooperative and am about to go to the UK to do some more permaculture research: Gaia Permaculture, Permaculture TV, Permaculture Cooperative.

Also, in the UK, I will be attending the Climate Camps (probably Scotland and England) and hopefully catching-up with World and European Social Forum activists such as Merlin and Hilge

Also hoping to get involved in the education and democracy aspects of the Climate Camps, as education in the Australian Social Forum process. London, Scotland and Wales. 

Credits:

• Website hosting is provided by Dan Rossi of Electroteque of Sydney Australia
  
• Software support is hosted by now independent OpenCore lead-tech Ethan Jucovy of Social Planning in Brooklyn.
• Huge thanks to Paul Winkler and others from the OpenCore-Dev mailing list that have been super-patient while we travelled up the learning curve of OpenCore installation, configuration and now bug fixes and releases. 

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