The Agora is a free knowledge [[Commons]] built by people for the benefit of others.
Which people, you ask?
In the case of this particular Agora: us [[Flancians]] -- and our [[friends]]!
A quick tour of the Agora will communicate the intentions behind the project better than many words in this small index :)
- See the list of all [[Nodes]], see the [[Users]] who contributed them.
- A Node is an aggregated view of resources that are relevant for a query or location.
- A User is a Commoner, meaning anyone who has contributed resources to the Commons, either as part of a repository or as social media posts.
- See node [[Index]] for the community-maintained index of this Agora, which is richer than this one, and will be transcluded ("pulled") for you below.
- See special node [[Journals]] for an aggregated view of journal entries and other resources that seem relevant in a time context.
- See special node [[Random]] for a random node out of the many thousands gathered so far.
- Warning: could be addictive :).
This Agora is a bit different from most other sites around the internet in that joining is a two step process that begins elsewhere :)
In a nutshell: first you take notes/write/make posts in the platform(s) of your choice; and then you tell the Agora that you'd like to contribute those resources to the Commons.
You can write to this Agora by taking notes using a [[personal knowledge management]] system like e.g. [[Obsidian]], [[Logseq]] or [[SilverBullet]], storing them in a repository, and telling us about it by writing to [email protected] or reaching out over any of the other supported [[Agora channels]].
If you are "tech-savvy" (in this particular way) you can send a [[pull request]] adding your [[git]] repository to this Agora's [[sources.yaml]] specifying the username of your choice. If you can't make this work or even if you don't know what any of that means please [[reach out]] if interested so we can try to support you through the process :)
You can write to this Agora straight from the [[Fediverse]] (meaning distributed social media, e.g. [[Mastodon]])! To do so, follow the [[Agora Bot]] at https://botsin.space/@agora and interact with it.
'Interacting' here means writing posts containing at least one [[wikilink]], or opting in to #hashtag handling. Your posts will be linked and optionally cross-posted in text format to the matching Agora location.
- See [[Agora architecture]] for details on how the Agora works and instructions to run your own.
- See [[Agora chapter]] for a ~20 page description of the vision behind the Agora and what we have accomplished so far, being the draft of a book chapter published in 2023.
- Please [[reach out]] if you need anything, enjoy the Agora, and have a great day! 🍮
