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Welcome to Social coding commons

Jester icon Reimagine the social web

Social is about how we want to live our lives. Together with our friends, family, co-workers, the people we meet. We weave seamlessly through social experiences in our day to day activities. Online we did poorly till now. We just started to explore the possibilities, and a world of opportunity awaits.

Beads icon Cocreate a peopleverse

How can we collaborate at scale in grassroots social impact and free software movements? Can we realign the technosphere to truly serve people in their daily life? Join us on a quest. Become a social experience designer and help weave the social web. At social coding commons we cocreate and cook the recipes for the future of social networking. We help reimagine social.

Individual needs
People first. Taking individual perspectives as starting point we design for societal impact.
Interpersonal relationships
We must assure that creative works and free software sustainably benefit people and society.
Societal imprint
We foster natural emergence. Intrinsic motivation is the key driver that sparks a commons into furtile cocreation.
Text 'Welcome to Social coding commons' followed by a diagram that depicts the scope of SX as three expanding elipses. Innermost is Developer experience (DX) which is suitable to work with and create technical systems. Surrounding it is User experience (UX), which includes DX in our scope definition, and allows us to deliver socio-technical platforms. Outermost elipsis is Social experience design (SX) that holistically emcompasses both DX and SX and allows us to create socio-cultural solutions. SX takes us from individual needs, via inter-personal relationships, to leaving societal imprint.

We enter a new era where people are in charge again. Social coding commons constitutes a chaordic organisation. An overlay and affiliation network that is tailored for the emergence of self-sustainable commons from chaotic grassroots environments. Social coding commons dedicates to the realization of a peopleverse. A social web inclusive to all people, that is supportive of real human needs and our daily lives.

People engage in social networking since the dawn of history. Only recently did we start to interact online, and - still largely socially inept to the dynamics of our new cyberspace environment - we saw the rise of exploitative corporate social media taking advantage of us. To the detriment of society itself and the social cohesion between people. There is an urgent need to find better alternatives.

Social experience design or SX is the holistic solution development methodology we use to organically evolve the social web as a collaborative commons. Following commons participation guidelines based on the intrinsic values of Freedom and Humanity, SX provides the mental models and perspective shifts that enable solutions to be designed for specific societal impact at any scale.

Social coding commons. It takes real people to reimagine social.

An exciting adventure lies ahead. We are on a quest to discover novel ways to cocreate free software, and we invite you to join us. First explorers of a new field. Be a social experience designer and experience joyful creation.

Peopleverse needs people. Learn how you can participate and cocreate tomorrow's open social technology stack.

Coding is social. We adhere to the W3C Ethical web principles and where applicable we apply the W3C Code of conduct.

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