• Such distros are generally hard to use for regular people, especially if they have the slightest problem with hardware compatibility
• Even relatively light machines these days can run a fully-featured Linux distro - I've seen the standard Ubuntu running on OLPC's XO-1 (installed on a USB stick - this was in mid-2008, so it was probably version 8.04)

The inaugural Coalition Movement Camp took place on October 10, 2010. Participants included representatives of Appropedia, OpenKollab, Metacurrency, 350, Dadamac, CoopAgora, JAK Bank, GreenTribe, and Gaia10. For eight hours, we brainstormed ideas towards a new generation of internet platforms and collaborative strategies for the climate crisis. Details of the 10/10/10 Coalition Movement Camp can be found on the Coalition blog (http://cotw.me/invite101010, http://cotw.me/camp101010).

On November 14, 2010, the conversation continues.

Why are we doing this?

• The world is warming. Satellite records show that in the past two decades, the process of warming has sped up. 2010 is on track to be the warmest year on record.
• Without drastic action, we risk temperature rises of 6°C or more by the end of this century. This would be a catastrophe.
• Yet the international community is ill-prepared, if not unwilling, to reign in carbon emissions to prevent this outcome.

We have no choice but to try a new approach.

The internet is rapidly evolving from a place for sharing information to a place for collaboration and co-creation. How easy it should be, given the money, talent, and need in the world, to build an online network that enables the best people from about the world to collaborate on climate action solutions.

This is our vision. It is neither radical nor extreme. It is necessary, plain and simple.

Join us on November 14, 2010, as we continue this world-changing adventure. The venue is an open collaboration staging area: http://movementcamp.org. There will be sessions devoted to BetterMeans/Open Enterprise Manifesto, the Global Innovation Commons, and more. You’ll be able to upload image and video files and contribute to real time chat. There will be live interviews and webcasts, with an audio stream component for participants in low-bandwidth zones. Our facilitators will work to summarize developments and keep you up to speed.

Coalition Movement Camp II: Connecting the Dots will run from 2.00pm to 6pm EDT. International start times: 7.00pm London, 11.00am Los Angeles, 2.00pm NYC, 6.00am Sydney (Nov 15). Enlist here: http://cotw.me/enlist (Local Start Times: http://cotw.me/cmc2starttime)

If you’d like to send a video shout out or presentation to Coalition Movement Camp participants, we welcome pre-recorded content. Please submit links to Vimeo or Youtube content by Friday November 12, 5.00pm Los Angeles time, and we’ll include suitable material on the Coalition Movement Camp blog. Submit these to: tropology at gmail dot com. Submitted content should include a summary paragraph, with links to more information.

Another way to test climate change - from the late Stephen Schneider, a sharp mind, author, and an influential climate scientist:

what we've done is gone to the literature and looked at a couple of thousand studies, and we simply asked, of all these observations made by these ecologists over the last, say, 20 to 50 years, how many are reporting changes in when trees flower, when birds lay eggs, when they migrate from the tropics to the high latitudes? And what we found was, although the majority of species aren't showing it yet, there is a minority of species showing change.

So then we said, okay, how many of them are coming back the way you would expect from physiological theory? Namely, if it's getting warmer, the flowering should be earlier, if it's getting warmer they should come back from the tropics earlier, and so forth. And it turns out about 80% of the species that are changing are changing in the direction you would predict. That is an unbelievably loaded coin, that's about 700 species. If you took a coin and flipped it 700 times and 80% of the times it came up heads, you'd be pretty sure that was a loaded coin, and we're pretty sure that we have a clear discernable signal of the recent temperature warming on plants and animals.

From A tribute to Stephen Schneider, on the Science Show, 31 July 2010 (audio & transcript available). Emphasis added.

Coalition Of The Willing from coalitionfilm on Vimeo.

• Choqok has the lower RAM usage, and it seems to work more smoothly. It can show the context of your messages, at least for Identi.ca, without opening a separate tab or browser window. I'm still waiting for the bug-fixed version 1.0, though.
• Gwibber has one big advantage - it offers access to many social media accounts rather than just Identi.ca and Twitter.