Here are some discussion topics, with some discussions. Add new topics or discussions at will. if this list becomes excessively long, we can make new pages that hold links to various topic areas.

free culture

• What is Free Math
• Why Free Math
• Why not non-Free Math
• merits and demerits of non-free webservices
• Should Mathematica Become Free Software
• Literate programming and Free Math
• Relationship between Free Math and Free Software
• one week in october
• What is Free Culture
• free culture as a labor issue

commons-based peer production

• what is CBPP
• CBPP Benefits
• the efficiency of CBPP
• Broad layers and local relationships
• A scholium-based document model
• Construction of the commons
• Tragical comedies of the info commons
• Comical tragedies of the info commons
• Math discussions on the net
• Competitors vs collaborators
• CBPP coordination
• CBPP reviews
• Commons-based Projects

philosophy

• towards a definition of freedom
• Successful pedagogy
• Good communication
• allegory and applicability
• Logical positivism and social welfare
• calculus of self-referentiality
• a paroxysm of parallax
• on bladders
• totalizing projects
• concerning agency
• basic frameworks
• Against Concepts
• The reality ghetto
• essentializing fictions and the zen attitude
• what is special about mathematics

law

• Ideas and Expression
• copyright concerns
• the public domain
• mandating access to government funded works
• revising copyright law
• fair use of code snippets
• concerning the legal feasibility of a hyperreal dictionary of code
• Termination of Copyright Transfer
• Problems With Copyright Law We Can't Work Around
• Legality of pass-by-reference
• all your thought are belong to us

licenses

• content licenses
• license diversity
• authorship registry solution to attribution problem

software and programming

• software we use
• software we think is cool
• literate programming
• connections between math and programming
• programming and user friendliness

technology and content creation

• the relative merits of wiki and other workflow management media
• interactive math software
• receipt confirmation and big brother
• the next great website maker
• categorical geometry of texts
• email is bad they say
• peer-to-peer survey
• calendar tools and other productivity software
• a web home is where the web heart is

organization

• thoughts on the viability of free-software style business
• content for new planets
• Grant planning
• Difficulty of getting people involved
• Difficulty of getting programmers
• Difficulty of getting anything done
• Difficulty of getting funding
• important figures
• Conference planning
• Workshop planning
• Talk planning
• Renaming the Noosphere Encyclopedia Section
• push vs pull and transparency
• the way of the asteroid
• Online versus offline efficiency
• Half a Year Later
• Two years later
• Notes from FCDL Symposium and PM mini-symposium
• Challenge problems
• Outreach to other activist groups
• Establishing Connections

culture building

• fun things to do
• travel experiences
• Hipster The Gathering
• Bibliography on Online Communities
• Web n.0
• The Semantic Web

education

• students who don't ask questions
• How DRM will save the textbook industry
• Adrift in a sea of assertions

politics

• beyond harry potter

economics

• social, political, and economic scholium systems
• public markets

miscellaneous resources

• local resources

to be recategorized

Theorem database : Maybe move to the HDM pages under "FAQ"?

Bibliographies and Amazon referrals :

This could be filed under PM feature request (for centralized bibliography) and also under funding ideas (for referrals). I don't know if the general discussions page is the best place, though.