Swarming between bureaucratic inertia and the tyranny of structurelessness
0:35 Stephen’s updates
- Stephen erases last weeks fail and installs Linux on some old hardware
- Installed Crunchbang on an old HP
- Chakra Linux might be worth a look
- Walton commits himself to software good practice
- Stephen fixes the cyberunions mobile site – m.cyberunions.org #win
- We segue into a discursive discussion on black lagers and imperial stouts
6:55 Walton’s updates
- Walton relearns the laws of physics playing football
- Dealing with feeback and planning future shows
- Why are people so interested in organisational theory?
- The most popular page on the site is the article about swarm organising
10:20 Trade union bureaucracy and structural inertia
- Unions are hierarchical and mirror the organisational structure of Fordism
- This model is outdated and holds unions back
- The servicing model has been a failure
- Everyone looks up instead of looking to each other
18:00 So how do we create responsive structures?
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
- Structure must serve a purpose
- Rhizome vs trees via Deleuze and Guattarri
- Swarm theory
- Twitter is the Hivemind
- Open source politics – many eyes means fewer bugs
29:30 Tech update
- Identi.ca update – lots of great new features in StatusNet
33:20 Feedback
- MJRay criticises Freenode and suggests OFTC
- Örsan reminds us we all live in repressive regimes
- pvh in South Africa says pirate Windows is used a lot more than FOSS
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