[Tfug] Pleasurable distraction

[William Stott]

On 4/15/08 12:14 PM, "sitkaa at email.arizona.edu" <sitkaa at email.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> If you want to see what I am focused on (its not spellng or computer stuff),
> check out my website.
> 
> (still at) www.u.arizona.edu/~sitkaa
> 
> It would be so nice to be able to write some small programs that would help
> with
> efforts to save the world, but then I would have to devote my life to learning
> the computer stuff, rather to learning how to save the world. Yes the task is
> too big for a single person, I suppose that is why we are all here, but still
> I
> don't even know where to begin.
> 
> For instance,
> 
> 1. How about a program that allows people to give opinions on topics in an
> uncorruptable format. It should be easy enough to write. I got lots of
> organizational ideas for this which would make the system more capable of
> showing consensus among a population (you know - fairness in voting,
> democracy...)
> 
> -=[Try a wiki or abuse the usability of a forum (they have built-in voting
> polls too)...]=-
> 
> 2. How about a GIS system for community and sustainability issues. Adding some
> depth to the idea, let us not only map the issues, but also the available
> initiatives and organizations that can address those issues. And as a side
> benefit, we would be organizing many of the NGO's into a more user friendly
> format.
> 
> -=[Again, try a wiki or abuse the usability of a forum.]=-
> 
> 3. How about maintaining a library of sustainability assessment modalities,
> indices, and measures of effects in order to generate better consensus on how
> our world is changing and what effect we are having upon it.
> 
> -=[WOW! Try a wiki or abuse the usability of a forum.]=-
> 
> 4. Or lots more.
> 
> I got lots of these ideas. They come at me all the time, for perhaps the past
> two decades. I have been organizing them, validating their methods,
> prioritizing community and population needs for sustainable development,
> categorizing initiatives, etc. But I am clueless about the computer side of
> things, which means that my ideas will Never Happen. I suppose I should go
> back
> to using a battery-less notepad and start counting the stars at night.
> 
> -=[Your ideas are not put into motion because you do not know what to look for
> (not because you lack computer skills). Do not reinvent the wheel if you do
> not have to. Instead, find what will work until your ideas outgrow the
> solution that is already available to you know. Please, look into the
> manipulation of an open source wiki system or forum software to meet your
> needs. There are many solutions out there so use good ole google.]=-
> 
> Learning computer stuff is just not where I am at. But I gotta put up with it
> in
> order to get this stuff outa my notebook.
> 
> -=[It¹s 2008, I hope your definition of Œnotebook¹ is a laptop computer...]=-
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Will
> 

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