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+.. _shared_technical_notes:
+
+Shared technical notes
+======================
+
+It takes some attention to
+
+Background
+----------
+
+In the early days of Agaric, [ben](http://agaric.com/mlncn) posted every error message, search query, and hare-brained musing to agaric.com.  Under editorial pressure from collective members this was exiled to [data.agaric.com](http://data.agaric.com/), built by worker-owner Kathleen Murtagh in the then-new Drupal 6.  Eventually ben internalized some sort of standards for publication, and the pace of posting dropped off— his incessant notetaking found a home in a local, unshared wiki-like notes application for GNU/Linux, Tomboy.
+
+The
+
+Future
+------
+
+Make it easy to publish from the raw-notes repository to [data.agaric](http://data.agaric.com), such as by adding a 'publish: true' line of metadata.
+
+***
+
+Hi Ryan!
+
+How's running your own business going?
+
+Have slack?  Here's a rather poorly compensated opportunity that
+
+a new worker coop, Samara,