The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) is a global grassroots movement. Over the years, several attempts have been made to provide a suitable answer for the need of global online collaboration and communication. The tools in use should connect people from around the world in order to share ideas and motivate and inspire global collective change through educational activism. The solutions used over these past years have shown varying successes. However, several instances proved that there is still a void that generally has not been filled by the currently applied solutions. The report and video presentation in this blog attempt to pinpoint the needs for such an online collaboration and communication tool, analyze what worked and did not work in the past, and then compare these needs with new (open-source) solutions in order to find a suitable alternative or improve what we already have. The goal of this initiative is to put the lip service of TZM into practice. I.e., manage the global resources of TZM (human collaboration) efficiently with the right tools and form a method of communication absent of opinion and prejudice by e.g. using the method of science and nonviolent communication.
I created a 40 minute presentation video, in case people prefer the information in such a format. Here are the direct links to the footnotes that are highlighted in the presentation:
Here you can sign-up for the live forum. This is no longer a pilot! Have fun. Please watch the presentation below to get a quick overview of what the forum has to offer.
On January 16th there was a meeting with a few international core activists of the movement to discuss some initial concerns and questions. The report of this meeting can be found here.