mlncn – co-design https://codesign.mit.edu civic media: collaborative design studio Mon, 15 Feb 2016 01:22:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.7 Intro: benjamin melançon of Agaric https://codesign.mit.edu/2016/02/mlncn-agaric-intro/ Mon, 15 Feb 2016 01:22:06 +0000 http://codesign.mit.edu/?p=1832 Continue reading →]]> I’m a member of Agaric, a worker-owned, cooperatively-run web development company which uses and contributes to Free Software, mostly Drupal and Django.  I’m not a designer and look forward to improving my design-writ-large skills in this course.  I am not an MIT student or alum, having attended the the University of Massachusetts at Amherst studying journalism, economics, political science, and information technology and never completing a thesis called “Economics for a Better World”.  Still want to.

Justice, liberty, and the self-organization we need for both drive me in most of my involvements, including the support authentic news, especially public interest sources, such as Boston Institute for Non-profit Journalism most recently.  I helped form a nonprofit organization called, by, and for, People Who Give a Damn.  Some time pretty soon PWGD will finally get around to building tools to give equal access to, and control of, communication to everybody.

I can be found online most places as mlncn.

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