[okfn-discuss] Following up discussion on "Our vision: Why, How and What for the Open Knowledge Foundation"

[Andrius Kulikauskas]

Rufus,

I share your "thinking out loud" about the Open Knowledge Foundation's 
vision.  I'm likewise working on a vision for our Worknets culture for 
independent thinkers:
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Charter
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Vision
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Strategy

I'm interested in:
* organizing an online "help room" (chat room, wiki, mailing lists, and 
other interfaces) where people can come for free help on individual 
problems, but also where we can organize global teams for commercial work. 
* fostering an "economy of dreams" where we help each other achieve our 
dreams directly, and resort to paid work secondarily; using art and 
other creative works to visualize and integrate our dreams; help each 
other deal with emergencies, including personal (health, unemployment, 
pension) and societal; linking up with supportive independent thinkers 
in the corporate world who might help us get paid work.
* creating open source, Public Domain self-learning materials for 
subjects that we think are most relevant for our lives, such as "moral 
lessons" for fostering our culture, including the basics of 
self-learning and investigating, and constructive skills in math, 
computer science, do-it-yourself technology, especially in local and 
regional languages.
* nurturing local bases of Worknets culture, seeds of Global Villages, 
enjoying those around us who inspire us, creating a world for falling 
and love, raising families and embracing others.
* engaging God, investigating how God might reach every single person? 
exploring people's values, questions, endeavors, dreams, growth and 
working towards a shared Worknets culture.

There are many networks with overlapping interests:
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?CivilizationNetworks

How do you envisage, how might our networks overlap by sharing 
participants, projects, content, software, formats, commercial work?

I'm encouraged by any ways, large or small, that we might work together!

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms at ms.lt
+370 699 30003
Dukiskes, Lithuania


Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Back in July we had a discussion [1] about the "vision" for the OKF
> going forward. I've summarized that discussion on this wiki page:
>
>   <http://wiki.okfn.org/Vision/Suggestions>
>
> >From that, it looks like there are 3 key areas we should work on:
>
>   1. Better explanation of "Why" (benefits of openness)
>     * <http://wiki.okfn.org/Vision/Why>
>   2. Better explanation of "What" - what we are doing, what our goals are etc
>     * <http://wiki.okfn.org/Vision/What>
>   3. Clearer structure and governance
>     * <http://wiki.okfn.org/Vision/Structure>
>
> Comments on all of these would be most welcome.
>
> Right now I think the "chunkiest", and most important, is the last of
> these, and so comments are especially welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> [1]: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2009-July/001533.html
>
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