Wyrdweb.eu
WyrdWeb vision
WyrdWeb was founded in 2005 by Graham Oakes, Willem van den Ende and Nynke Etk Fokma with a vision to grow Wyrdweb into a network of creative businesses and communities around the world, that are alive and connected in in(ter)dependent networks, featuring our respective congruent passions and dreams. A fun and enjoyable virtual open space where creative people like ourselves can learn from one another and showcase their products and services for congruent sustainable living, and people can create an agenda of issues to work on together.
Guiding principles and values
WyrdWeb slogan
It's all about communication, the rest is open source software!
Current operations
Resources
We rent two servers in Germany running Debian GNU/Linux. One is our spike server where we experiment, develop and support community sites, the other is our stable server where we serve small creative businesses, including our own. Most of the software (all open source) we work with is MySQL, PHP and Javascript based, and on the spike server we experiment with Ruby on Rails and other, less mature, yet for the future possibly interesting new languages and software.
Creative users and communities
Our users/community members are creative and innovative businesses and communities with a passion for their own products and services.
Social networking
We weave in a lot of that, and actively participate in communities to figure out resonance and how to support freedom and creativity better. We may not believe (exactly) what others believe in, and we don't have to in order to support a user/community purpose, as long as what we believe in is respected too. Example: Turning tides.
Active Wyrdweb builders
Anjez*, Graham, Hans, Ira, Marc, Nynke, Pat, Ushie, and Willem.
Future
This is the Wyrdweb site that, over the years, became somewhat cluttered. We are currently acquiring a new server, refactoring our wyrd selves to be more lean, and working on a very focused new wyrdweb site to reflect that.
Security
Nynke has discerned some web 2.0 issues in general that she intends (wants to) to work on. And selfcare comes first. She also has to pay her bills. :-)
More people
The active Wyrdweb builders are nearly all independents, and we do this next to our work. We are overloaded and behind on upgrading and updating of our stable server and softwares used, and on social networking. If you wish to join us and help out, let us know!
