Cyberunions Podcast Episode 64 Getting your little sis to check up on big brother

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0:27 We are back and going corporate….no ha almost

• It’s been a month…things are crazy, as usual, but we are bringing things back up to speed
• Stephen has morbid ideas about keeping us on schedule of recording every 2 weeks
• debate between cloning or taking speed to keep up on the work
• pallet to desktop to sound studio living live frugally
• with the studio we will be what the listeners think we are…professional….now working on our 13th draft for this show <wink>
• Stephen’s workflow plan
• January and Walton do not get along…trouble turning on…as the highway of the new year is just starting
• Bringing up enthusiasm….Stephen likes snow and misses it…walton is being promised snow next week.
• Walton will make a snow man to match Stephen’s Mohawk
• Winter break brought tagging the walls of Stephen’s apartment
• Stephen’s birthday is coming up

11:00 Who is Little Sis? a place for labor and free software to come together!

• During the trip to Brazil with the BDSmovement an idea came up about trying to create a way to map the connections of corporations, government and individual connections to development in Israel.
• Original idea was to alter CiviCRM, but a comrade recommended Littlesis and Poderopedia
• Littlesis is an free software web database application that allows the users to “add relationships” and “interlocking” connections between people and companies and schools and politicians.
• Littlesis is like the reverse of LinkedIn and there are supposedly plans to federate this software
• Stephen reminisces about his Corporate Research course during his masters in Labor studies.
• There are some tools out there but very expensive to gain access to, like Mergent Online
• Littlesis allows you to crowd source the research, like imagine every union having a local install that is then federated to the world, we could source all the research and map all the power and connections.
• This is our way to fight back in the information age…with the information we don’t have
• Is great for strategic campaigns whether it is union organizing or BDS or whatever campaign
• Bosses have things like this already like the blacklist of union activists in the UK, it was uncovered this past year.
• Call for developers to contribute to the github!!!
• We will be doing an install in the week and hopefully have it up soon…we will post here when it is up and ready.
• Recommend to do tech supply chain
• Stephen gets enthusiastic and gets Walton excited again…the corporate research course inspired Stephen to see what we could do, but now this software creates a way for the information to be federated and sourced by everyone

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