This is the original inspiration for Nifis:
… brought the politics of the open source movement to the town hall through the organisation of the University of Openness (Uo).
The Uo described itself as, ‘a framework in which individuals and organisations can pursue their shared interest in emerging forms of cultural production and critical reflection such as unix, cartography, physical and collaborative research’, and suggested that ‘Any member may start a faculty to socialise their research with the Uo’. One of the faculties listed in the Uo bulletin was the ‘East London Cybergeografical Underground Network’. Which described itself with a similar anachronistic playful style of the LPA:
So we’re hoping that other faculties will start from a (frankly) technological core.