The Idea of PPC

origin story

at the highschool I went to (called a HTL in Austria, it’s a highschool with technical focus, half of the classes were about electronics) one really great and special teacher had a stroke and couldn’t teach anymore. He held one fully optional Linux subject. I have never attended this (as we didn’t know it even existed, we didn’t have him as a teacher in any subject) but according to what we were told from ppl who were there it was the place where all the people from the school who are really into Linux got together.

We talked to teachers about bringing this back somehow. As a new room for the robotic competition teams was needed, we came to making this room the Robotics and Linux Club. (it sucks, that Austrian highschools don’t have clubs like USA ones. at least we now had one for our last year)

From painting the room ourselves to setting up servers together, there were many fun projects we did together. The unexpected and amazing thing was what this room meant socially. Especially for not so social people like me, who outside of their classmates didn’t get to meet anyone of the large (approx 1500 students) school. You always had a great time hanging out there, most interesting things to talk about, cool projects to tackle together, felt most welcoming… even with people you didn’t know at all yet.

I have made most of my best friends through this room. The social atmosphere this room created (for the few ppl with huge linux/electronics/robotics/CS interest) is what inspired the idea of PPC, with the question of can we bring this special “social atmosphere” to more people. And also people who don’t have such a great interest into Linux/robotics/…? And for those who don’t have any “huge interest” can we foster this in them as it seems to be what allowed this special “social atmosphere”.

dump of “things” about PPC

• “just a group of people”, “A community of friendgroups”, “A community of communities”, “a meta community??”, “The corner of the Internet for people”, “the social media for intentional/diligent ppl”

• “A Social Media platform made with heart”, “the real live Social Media network”, “Social Media made for People and not for Advertisers”

  • there is the plan to make some kind of Software (website on https://ppc.social, desktop/mobile app) based on The MiZe Platform
    • mostly to organize:
      • this group of people (or group of groups of people)
      • what they plan on doing (I alone have a lot planned… as seen here)
      • their Ideas/Information … wiki.ppc.social, PPC The Innovation Machine
      • their communication
      • maybe even (some of) their belongings/skills: a lending/sharing/selling network similar to Ebay, Streetbank, …
      • meetups/events IRL
      • travel plans, PPCPs, …
  • have a look at: Implementation Ideas for the PPC Software

• c2vi experimenting with social stuff until he finds something to revert the social damage Social Media has caused

  • Your 20s are for experimenting … and that’s what I’m doing…
  • “Everything is so connected (digitally) now, yet we (humans) couldn’t be more disconnected, separated and fragmented” - c2vi 2024
    • pretty sure someone has said smth like that before me…

• a “Framework/Platform” for a good life… and something about Human Connection and Purpose

  • Material things don’t make you happy, the people in your life do…
  • bringing the right people into everyone’s life, for them to have a good life
  • you can’t buy happiness, but you can sponsor PPC to do cool projects together with cool people…
  • doing something about loneliness in the world, help people connect: PPC as a loneliness initiative
  • rel: Yes Theory, Seek Discomfort, Discovering Connection
  • organize cool things and have lots of fun (“everything is more fun when done together”)
    • PPC Eventloop
    • The List of cool projects the PPC could do
  • another thing for a good life is Purpose..
    • “there is nothing more Purposefull, than helping others”
    • I think working together towards cool things… gives Purpose and a fulfilled live

• It all starts with the right people

  • “bring matching/cool ppl together to do cool things”…
  • “some people have this spark in them, that makes them work on their ideas/projects/plans even if they would not get paid” (me included) … imagine what could happen, if we get all of those ppl into one group…
  • eg: very many modern inventions come from Bell Labs… which had the right people in the right Environment, with the right resources
    • can we make a new Bell Labs again plz!!!! (PPC Labs it is)
  • “more can be accomplished as a group”

• something about Trust…

  • the idea
  • “some people you can just Trust, to not do anything stupid… they could literally life in a world without Rules???”
  • PPC is Invite only …
    • recursive Invites: you invite your friends → they can invite their friends → they can invite their friends → …
    • yes, on this platform you can’t just come on and post anything… but that’s the point
      • if you want to do that, go to Twitter, or Polycentric, or Mastodon, …

• “let’s fix the world from the inside out”

  • not with politics / and not by relying on politics… but also not by rebelling politics… maybe even so some politics… idk
  • but with PPC… whatever this means/will become
  • even though I think the world is not that broken (at least here in Austria) … but still, there are things to improve

• “Scaling a friend group into the millions”???

  • how large can we grow a group of people with no/minimal confilct?

• I am a “crazy idea person” (see here) and I am searching for ppl, who

  1. challenge my ideas (tell me how stupid most of them are…)
  2. help me bring my ideas to reality (for the ones which are not so stupid)
  3. bring their own cool ideas
  • I am such a thinker not a doer (seriously it’s insanely annoying), alone I only have ideas and plans… but nothing actually gets done.

• there is the PPC Wiki Project

  • read The Idea of the PPC Wiki for more on that

• there is PCMC

  • read the idea for more on that
  • somehow the thing which started it all… wanting a Minecraft server to run for longer turned into “experimenting with social stuff”

• there are People Corner Places (PPCPs)

  • PPCPs and the ideas for Neighborhood, Social Structure and Living

• on the Money Situation… I have not many ideas here… “please send patches (ideas)” (rel xD)…

• make Youtube videos and content from all the cool things we do as the PPC