If we're theorycrafting alternative acronyms/movements to FOSS, I kinda like ALAARM - Anarchic Liberatory Art Across Regions and Mediums.
Not just because it would let me comedically reclaim people calling me an alarmist, but that ain't a bad perk.
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@MaddieM4
Omg so good, so on point
@MaddieM4
Sounds like a call to arms
@nobody I hope so! We kinda need those right now.
I do like, though, that we're all trying to be sure what we're putting our effort into before going to war, after being burned by our last round of "thought leadership." I think it would be a mistake to just knee-jerk react and then realize we hadn't learned any lessons from last time.
(hence my other thread today about, "hey let's all explore different tiny communities with their own focus that you can be very personally comfortable in, but which also team up as coalitions on common-ground issues!" as a way to give people permission to leap into action without perfection paralysis)
It *should* be anarchic - pushing against our trends of authority and hierarchy in real life society.
It *should* be liberatory - it is in-scope to make people more free, and not just in narrow ways.
It *should* be art - not just engineering, not just "technical merit" as judged by white boys.
It *should* be across all arbitrary political borders, or it's not liberatory.
And it *should* encompass far more than just code, and not put code on a special pedestal or devalue other forms of art.