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Submitted by Visitors on April 26, 2006 - 02:21.
We no need an education to save the planet.
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> What are we talking about in terms of people, skills, time spent,etc.? How does that translate into a figure that can represent the needed inflow of energy in the form of money? Can it be known? Estimated?
Thanx Finn for those precise questions. Of course, I don't have the answer but have some elements of it.
In terms of people, skills, and time spent, Nexus 2.0 would need, at minimum, a part-time:
Even if some of these people would part of their work on a volunteer basis, we can't and shouldn't expect them to do all what is needed with no compensation at all. We have talented people in the community who could do much of work, so we wouldn't have to hire outside professionals. But we do need to make the project fundable by sources of conscious capital investing, if we want to receive seed money to get Nexus 2.0 off the ground.
For a comparison of cost, take a look at the beautiful Evolve site. My guess is that it took upwards $10,000 to develop it. They did much of the coding and because we would do it on top of an open source platform, it could be probably done for 1/3 of that money.
That process of raising that amount of cash may take some time. I am thinking of forming an evolutionary media enterprise that could finance the ongoing development and maintenance needs of Nexus. You can read my thoughts related to this in Nexus of abundance .
Meanwhile there's a lot of sognificant improvement on the current platform that a part-time webmaster could do for something like 300-500 €.
If we could get it - what streams of money would we want?
"Offers and needs come together" as is stated in the two posings before this.
I have no idea of what the needs are to evolve this site to next level, and then to sustain it on that level. What are we talking about in terms of people, skills, time spent,etc.? How does that translate into a figure that can represent the needed inflow of energy in the form of money?
Can it be known? Estimated?
A shared 'market place' hardly works in small online communities
> Offers and needs come together and create the shared 'market place'
Sounds good conceptually but in practice I've never seen it working in relatively small online groups, although I saw many trying it.
> i would love to see us do something like this for evosalon3
That could be indeed a good place to try it.
I will in Boston at that time will log in for news from ES-3.
making visible the wealth in the community
here's a generative piece of feedback from jean-francois that he shared as part of his feedback for evolutionary salon 2. i find this beautiful, relevant and a generative community practice. i would love to see us do something like this for evosalon3:
"There is also the expression of offers. By inviting people to put on the table what they have to offer (knowledge, practice, time, money, art, energy, relationships, ideas, etc), just like in a pot luck, then we let everyone visualize what is the wealth at the community level. And what is missing too. This very process of the 'banquet' is a key step in creating group consciousness. Group consciousness comes with a sense of shared wealth.
Offers and needs come together and create the shared 'market place', in the deepest sense of it. IMHO this is an important starting point for catalyzing collective intelligence. Then other dynamics can be worked and reviewed one by one in order to build the social architecture: emergence, holopticism, object links, polymorphism, learning dynamics, social contract, gift economy, etc... See the 12 tenets of a global collective intelligence."http://www.evolutionarynexus.og/node/261