[Tfug] Pleasurable distraction

[sitkaa at email.arizona.edu]

For the most part I have looked into this, but I know things change 
quickly. It
is hard to keep up with it all.

A voting system such as what I would propose does not yet exist, from 
what I can
tell. The model I would propose is pieced together from bits of other voting
systems. If you are interested in working on this, give me about two weeks to
put together formal proposal for it. Then you cn run with it.

The mapping system already exists, but integrating the data points I would
integrate has only been attempted to some degree by an academic group in the
B.C. (google Quest and environmental sustainability tools (EST)). I do GIS
stuff using Arc series, etc. Making maps is part of what I do for public
planning.

The library of sustainability issues and intiatives goes right along with the
above. It already exists, but again not with the organizational level I have
planned.

The community based banking system does not exist, although it once did for a
short time (google Irving Fisher's 'Stamp Scrip' for historical perspective).
The main points of it are:
1. multi-level community issued currency
2. depreciating currency over both time and space
This would need computers to work properly, but it would be more efficient and
more usable than a stamp scrip, and would result in a very stable economy. The
only downside is that chasing profits would not drive the economy...

I would use linux, or some BSD, for this, which is why I get so 
frustrated with
it. It is simply too complicated for me to figure out how to do this. My mind
just doesn't work like that.

Anyway, I think that was all I sent out. Thanks for posting it to the 
TFUG list.

Michael



Quoting William Stott <WStott at ventanamed.com>:

> 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
>>