I am very grateful for the many letters of support http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?LettersOfSupport for our Minciu Sodas proposal ...
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ms@...
minciusodas
Sep 5, 2008 8:27 pm
Peter Kaminski is a co-founder of Socialtext (the wiki company) and before that I and our Minciu Sodas laboratory worked for him to consult on business ideas...
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Benoit Couture
benoitctr
Sep 6, 2008 10:05 am
Salut everyone, At my house, the timing of Minciu Sdoas' conversation and proposal aiming to empower women, was accompanied last week by the launcing of a...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
minciusodas
Sep 9, 2008 1:55 am
I share my business plan for Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt and an economics for our culture of independent thinkers. I am glad to see Marcin Jakubowski and...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
minciusodas
Sep 9, 2008 9:33 pm
Yahoo! Groups is organizing a townhall meeting in the Chicago area on September 23, 2008, 6:00 pm. I will attend and can bring a guest. Would anybody in...
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Benoit Couture
benoitctr
Sep 10, 2008 9:46 am
Andrius, Here is a thought: - How can yahoo facilitate the market forces with a transparent process of expertise consolidation that could implement...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
minciusodas
Sep 11, 2008 5:22 am
I'm writing an application for Minciu Sodas to join the European Network of Living Labs, ENOLL, http://www.openlivinglabs.eu "Living labs" are a new approach...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
minciusodas
Sep 13, 2008 7:27 pm
Graham, Thank you for your letters about Biochar which I share below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar Biochar is a charcoal produced from biomass that can...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
minciusodas
Sep 13, 2008 9:58 pm
Thank you! I'm greatly encouraged by our thoughtful letters. I ask us to learn to share resources so that Minciu Sodas and other such bases could find sources...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
minciusodas
Sep 16, 2008 1:57 am
I am sharing a few more thoughts as I deal with my own financial situation. Most likely I will look for temporary office work here in Chicago during October,...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
minciusodas
Sep 23, 2008 1:57 am
I share my vision of an economy to work towards in the future. I invite us all to consider how we might share our resources and help each other. Minciu Sodas...
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Robert Mostyn
robertsmostyn
Sep 23, 2008 1:31 pm
Gee you propose some tough thoughts Andrius! I have to say I find your proposals both inspiring and challenging. One of the difficulties I have is...
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John Rogers
atholl2003
Sep 24, 2008 9:56 am
Robert, I share your frustrations! Every few months Andrius sends us a similar message, full of a grand vision of potentially millions of people networked...
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Robert Mostyn
robertsmostyn
Sep 24, 2008 4:58 pm
Aha! So its YOUR group John... not Andrius'! (actually, I knew that, its just that its hard to tell sometimes. :) ) And what you really want to achieve...
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John Rogers
atholl2003
Sep 24, 2008 7:18 pm
Well, I have never seen it as MY group! I just started it off and agreed to focus it. The whole point was to facilitate others to participate, which I think...
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helpinghander
Sep 25, 2008 2:59 am
Ok I'll step in and say hi and share a few thoughts, I am 47 as a young person I worked in Kenya in village development with the Institute of Cultural Affairs....
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Benoit Couture
benoitctr
Sep 25, 2008 9:16 am
Thank you for this testimony. You wrote of "discernment committies". Can you elaborate on this? How would you see it work in a context like MS? How...
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Robert Mostyn
robertsmostyn
Sep 25, 2008 10:41 am
Wow! Chuck... you have clearly led a life of community building example, and continue to do so. I salute you! And will be paying attention to what you say,...
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John Waters
greyj0hn
Sep 25, 2008 2:42 pm
... I believe that's inevitable. The situation is the same on-line as it is in the printed world: ever more people writing, but no greater capacity to read. ...
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helpinghander
Sep 26, 2008 2:41 am
... Benoit you shared many interesting and eloquent thoughts. A few responses. ... How would you see �it work in a context like MS?� How do they fit and ...
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Andrius Kulikauskas
minciusodas
Sep 26, 2008 5:23 am
I have started blogging about The Includer at the PBS website http://www.pbs.org/idealab/ I'm writing it like a serial novel. I hope it makes for a story, a...
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Benoit Couture
benoitctr
Sep 26, 2008 12:13 pm
This is beautiful Chuck, I sure enjoy reading you! MS is Minciu Sodas, which means Orchard of Thoughts in Lithuanian. Speaking of fuels, from the...
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John Rogers
atholl2003
Sep 27, 2008 11:07 am
Dear Chuck Thanks for your inspiring stories! It sounds like it was the articulation of a good story about change - linking past, present and future - that...
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John Rogers
atholl2003
Oct 1, 2008 3:28 pm
Right on cue with our sharing of stories about growing community I just receive this in a circular from Thomas Greco about Conscious Community Weavers" "Human...
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Terry Mace
terrytimebroker
Oct 1, 2008 4:46 pm
Bright Blessings, John. As always, a great post! I've just had a look at the website. Excellant stuff. It reminded me of the 'peace- making-circle' work...
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John Rogers
atholl2003
Oct 1, 2008 4:51 pm
Three great stories about participation, community and conversation by founder of the World Cafe movement, Juanita Brown: ...
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John Rogers
atholl2003
Oct 1, 2008 4:55 pm
Thanks Terry, great to hear from you! We look forward to hearing more of your 'community weaving' in this group... John PS Missed the wonderful singing at the...
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John Rogers
atholl2003
Oct 1, 2008 5:10 pm
More gems from the wonderful World Cafe people at their World Cafe Community Blog: "In fact, so inextricably bound are language and community that scientists...
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Benoit
benoitctr
Oct 3, 2008 10:48 pm
Salut John and everyone, As we watch and behold the super power loosing its capital superiority, would it not be time for capitalism to discover the wisdom of...
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John Rogers
atholl2003
Oct 4, 2008 3:51 pm
Benoit, thanks for your usual philosophical/spiritual challenge! Indeed, in the late 90s there was a campaign started in the UK called Jubilee 2000, which...
