rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

By the way, Second Life IS A GAME. Because Second Lifers (users and employees) are so quick to correct one that says its a game to say its not a game makes it even more of a game in real life, second life, and the after life!

Nonetheless, Second Life needs a task management system like World of Warcraft to give people goals and rewards and to really get the community into the game. The rewards should be either non-material (fame, reputation, etc) or material (money, objects, etc). Of course, by material, I’m referring to virtual materials.

Also, they need to make their service an open service and their client, an open source client. Do it and you will see your community scale at an enormouse rate.

To Second Life developers and employees, the value you provide is in your service and not in the software you provide!

I’m trying to figure out politics, how to leverage my skills etc, to oust Bush (personally) and globally push for more participation and diverse viewpoints and discussion in this country.

Where do I start? Will it help to volunteer for the Democrats?

What I really want to do is to setup a conference of people in Open Source (who I know tow their own and make major differences) to discuss these issues, start some political open source projects, and to plow ahead on either fixing this government or making a new one.

Yes. I’m serious.

I would go a step further than Rudd-o’s statement that Open Source’s weakness is lack of marketing and PR by stating that this is a problem for the superset of Free Culture.

I have spent much time trying to hone these skills through working on Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library and now at Creative Commons I totally agree with Rudd-o and feel that once Free Culture (including Free Content, Open Content, Free Software and Open Source Software) figure this out, or rather more people like myself and Rudd-o promote this heavier and provide solutions, Free Culture will master marketing and PR.

We already have proof that this type of “Spread” project like Spread Firefox works majorly well…so how do we duplicate this?

This reminds me that I need to put the big push back on for Spread FreeCulture (which will hopefully lead this charge).

Also, I would like to address how I create projects like Spread Free Culture. I have been explaining this a lot lately. Here is my strategy:

• First do massive research on what already exists and put this on a wiki (unless a wiki page on this exists somewhere else).
• Then, if a project already exists which does what you want, then merge your efforts in with this (merging is a HIGH PRIORITY TO CONSOLIDATE RESOURCES)
• Only if a project does not exist, then start fleshing out your project online on a wiki and make a few public announcements about this developing project to get other ideas.
• After this, then begin to implement what you and others have planned on that wiki.