{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whit537/whit537.org/issues/22","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whit537/whit537.org","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whit537/whit537.org/issues/22/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whit537/whit537.org/issues/22/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whit537/whit537.org/issues/22/events","html_url":"https://github.com/whit537/whit537.org/issues/22","id":135650907,"number":22,"title":"publish \"The New Public Sphere\"","user":{"login":"whit537","id":134455,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/134455?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537","html_url":"https://github.com/whit537","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":17,"created_at":"2016-02-23T06:32:10Z","updated_at":"2016-03-04T13:33:56Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I've got a piece brewing about the new public sphere. The tl;dr is GitHub > Twitter because GitHub enables direct voice in governance while social media are still outsiders to power.\r\n\r\nMaybe this would fit in [Shareable](http://www.shareable.net/) or [OuiShare Magazine](http://magazine.ouishare.net/)?\r\n\r\n-----------\r\n\r\nDraft 1: [The New Public Sphere](https://medium.com/@whit537/the-new-public-sphere-bfe194891e92)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whit537/whit537.org/issues/comments/192285952","html_url":"https://github.com/whit537/whit537.org/issues/22#issuecomment-192285952","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/whit537/whit537.org/issues/22","id":192285952,"user":{"login":"whit537","id":134455,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/134455?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537","html_url":"https://github.com/whit537","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-04T13:33:56Z","updated_at":"2016-03-04T13:33:56Z","body":"> Is that Ambridge, Borsetshire, or Ambridge, Pennsylvania?\r\n\r\n---------------\r\n\r\n>Ambridge, Pennsylvania! We are just outside Pittsburgh in the USA. :-)\r\n>\r\nWe had an initial push on Ambridge GitHub about a year ago. I went around to all my friends and signed them up, then I met with borough leadership and received a largely enthusiastic response—defying the stereotype of post-industrial small town leadership as regressive and inaccessible. Unfortunately I then got busy and the effort has dwindled somewhat. Now I'm trying to decide whether to invest further effort in GitHub, or switch to Loomio.\r\n>\r\n[GitHub](https://github.com/) is primarily designed for building software. They have 10 million users, and they power many free/open/libre software projects. [Loomio](https://www.loomio.org/) is a platform that arose out of the Occupy movement, and on the surface they seem much more suited to our task here in Ambridge. Investigation, however, is inconclusive. Loomio is much less mature than GitHub, having at best 100,000 users, and [reality does not seem to match their rhetoric](https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/421#issuecomment-184964405).\r\n>\r\nThe next steps I see are to gather a few folks here in town, make a final decision about GitHub vs. Loomio, and start evangelizing the effort again. I found a year ago that outreach really paid off, but to be honest we need a more sustained effort to reach critical mass. What we have so far could best be called a promising experiment."}}