How might global teams help Chandler?

Hi! I recently thought again of Chandler, am happy for all the progress, 
and am wondering is there a way that we might work together.

These last five years I have organized Minciu Sodas, http://www.ms.lt, a 
laboratory serving and organizing independent thinkers, with 50 active 
and 500 passive members around the world, with many in the United 
States, Lithuania, India and the Balkans.

We've done a lot of innovate work in global team-building, including a 
working group of 50 makers and users of tools for organizing thoughts, 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkingpowerfully/ and a draft of an 
import/export standard http://www.ms.lt/mindset.html for such tools. 
These last two years we've focused on jumpstarting an economy for 
working openly, as in "An Economy for Giving Everything Away" 
http://www.ms.lt/en/workingopenly/givingaway.html  Most recently, we've 
submitted a proposal to the OSI IP for a "Social Networking Kit" for 
activists with "marginal Internet access" (which is expanding, as 
Silicon Valley designs for ever increasing bandwidth)(and is relevant to 
Chandler, as much functionality does not require real-time access). 
We've thought through fractal ways of organizing work by which we can 
cost-effectively mobilize large global teams.

I invite you to consider how you might harness our lab's assets.  We 
might help organize global teams to:
- involve a multilingual community in the design of Chandler;
- develop Chandler for use by people with marginal Internet access;
- look for and promote applications of Chandler around the world;
- base work in the European Union or Japan so as to qualify for funding 
from there.
We are working closely with the newly forming European Union of 
Telecottage Associations, there are thousands of "telecottages" being 
created with European Union funding, and they might be interested to 
adopt Chandler, especially if it took into account their special needs.

A great place to feel our vitality is at our discussion group 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Minciu_Sodas_EN/  which all are welcome to 
join.

How might we be your partner?  We are very interested to do work, and 
also co-funding is very helpful.  I include below my post to Mitch's blog.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
[email protected]

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Mitch, Congratulations! I'm happy how you're making progress on your 
dream, how many people you're involving and how it's evolving.

You may know about our lab, Minciu Sodas, http://www.ms.lt Is there any 
way that we might work together?

We just submitted a proposal for a "Social Networking Kit" optimized for 
marginal connectivity. http://www.no-hit.com/andrius/archives/000074.html

We came up with 5 modules that we would like to see available for 
off-line activists with irregular Internet access:
- present ourselves through our stories and patterns
- find each other through our projects and initiatives
- follow information on the same topics but in different volumes
- target our help with a web of references
- integrate our efforts with a culture of open investigation.

We've also pioneered various ways of "working openly", specifically a 
fractal way of organizing large global teams, but also smaller teams 
http://www.ms.lt/team/ And a way for customizers to offer small 
services, say for 100 euros, for people who pay in advance, such that if 
they are not happy the money goes to their favorite charity. We've tried 
this with good results through 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/personalbrain/ (for users of TheBrain) in 
helping with www.deepquest.net

We'd be very excited to offer our team-building services, for example, 
to organize interest in Chandler in areas with "marginal connectivity", 
and to find funding or related work for that. Or to organize makers of 
tools for thinking, as we have already done at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkingpowerfully/ Thank you for thinking 
of us! Peace.

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