Great presentation /by @jevon : How Startups will save Canadian Venture Capital #startupfest #community

The Organizers' Collaborative is a Boston-based organization established in 1999 to promote better use of technology by social change organizations throughout the US.<br />
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The Organizers' Collaborative is dedicated to advancing social change through the effective use of technology. We are particularly committed to low-cost and no-cost tools created in the spirit of Open Source. Since our founding, we have built the capacity of hundreds of grassroots organizations who are working for a better society.

Board Meeting Ile-Sans-Fil #community #wireless (@ Centre Saint Pierre)

There are three levels of commenters: Unapproved, Approved and Starred. You basically have to audition for the right to comment, by leaving a smart blurb—if it's good, you'll get approved by an editor, one of our moderators, or a starred commenter, and then people can see your comment. Your comment is also approved if you sign in through Facebook Connect, since it's tied to an identity. Truly excellent commenters earn stars, which grant them moderation powers, and makes all of their comments featured (more on that below).

There are three levels of comments: Unapproved, Approved and Featured. Unapproved are only seen by moderators. Approved can be seen by everybody, but a casual reader will have to work a bit to see them. Comments that moderators think are awesome—as well as comments left by star commenters—become featured, which means they're in bold, and right up front on every post. Think of it as a super version of the karma scheme that Slashdot's used forever.

Just found the "Building Web Reputation Systems Companion Wiki" a few days ago and it's chock full of good stuff!

The Designing Social Interfaces patterns wiki is a companion site to the book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media.

We decided to share the patterns as we write the patterns and the book to get community feedback. We think that hearing a variety of opinions about these topics will make the material stronger and more representative of what's happening in social interfaces. As we complete sections of the book, we will be adding the patterns.

An interesting addition to buddypress on my short list good of open source social networking platforms...

Drigg is a powerful Drupal that allows you to promote stories automatically based on your users' votes.
For a test site, see: http://www.drigg.org or http://www.fsdaily.com

What do we mean by "Distributed Conversation" anyway? And how does SIOC fit into this?

Even helping a bit once in a while (like typing in the track names of a CD nobody else had ever entered) benefited you and the system. Instead of making you feel bad for "only" doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%.

here are Mashable’s favorite comment-focused WordPress plugins that can eliminate spam, improve the appearance of comments, and add more value to your posts.

Below you can see ideas members of the WordPress community (like you!) have proposed, and rate them. The highest rated ideas will be included in a future version.

Biggest challenge of running a community still remains finding the right resources. 57% of the people claimed inability to get the right people to facilitate the community

The fine folks at the eBiquity group at the University of Maryland Baltimore County have started to notice that tag spam is on the rise. The problem is particularly pronounced on del.icio.us.

réseau sans-fil (wifi) communautaire dans la ville de Québec, inspiré de Ile Sans Fil de Montréal

An analysis of community as it emerges in blogging: how it is formed, how it should reshape the blogosphere, and how it can be implemented (quite easily) technologically. And along the way, deflating a few pet concepts of the blogerati, such as the value

CommonBits is a free community directory of progressive political media that anyone can contribute to.