Constitution

topic posted Wed, November 5, 2003 - 3:03 AM by  John
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When this takes off, it will very likely be a good idea to have a rough draft of a working constitution.
Inspirational document and starting point here :
www.chaordic.org/learn/not...ution.html
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John
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  • Re: Constitution

    Sat, November 8, 2003 - 7:11 AM
    this is an interesting document, but, as i suggested in the earlier posting, is constitution something really needed for such an adventure?
    i know it is hard to think or even imagine some sort of a society that does not operate upon some fundamental guide lines, and when ever i open my mouth about it, people think about anarchy - but this is not my background nor aim.
    there is no rule or guideline which prohibits you from taking a knife a cutting one of your fingers. most of us tend to refrain from such an action not simply due to pain (a bit of drugs could solve that), but because we kinda got used to being able to do things we do, with 10 fingers. in other words these fingers enable us to do stuff and cutting any one of them might put some tricky questions as to what we might be able to do in the future.. what i aim to illustrate here is the importance and use of what might be termed "enablers". elements which enable to do stuff.
    now, if we are talking about some sort of a thing within which elements or nodes operate, lets say that that thing provides an "enabler" called transparency. each element can take part in it and influence the kind of transparency, how it works etc... as we know, in business, transparency is an issue, and in such an environment, it could well develop a way for trust.. i.e. if i want to do business with you, i can check on how and what you did in the transparency enabler.. if you did not do, i might not trust - but then on the other hand, i might notice you did not use a certain "enabler" for a reason i can respect and understand...

    does it make sense, some how??
    • Re: Constitution

      Sun, November 9, 2003 - 2:09 AM
      It makes perfect sens !

      Eventually, yes, although I believe, please correct me if I'm too realistic, a great number of people have come to rely on the old way of doing things, develop things, doing business.

      The conclusion I draw is we need some sort of transitionary, translationary document, to nudge the critical mass of participants close enough to the edge/sweet spot, where they themselves takes the leap of faith I can see implied in your post.

      Transparency, exactly, spot on !
      Only IMHO, we need "glue", in the form of projects, processes, big picture people and
      a shared language to get there.

      Consequently, I'm not that interested in Tribe *in itself*, but I'm very interested in what can be done together with people I'm meeting through Tribe.

      The situation right now, is people trampling all over trying to be the first to code, implement, execute.
      This will create a confusing period over the next two years, as the players try to define the playing field, setting defacto standards, or at least get a significant part of the action.
      I'd like to see us putting some effort in languaging, implementing, prototyping and executing a shared language, then we could open source this for the benefit of all the coders out there that could run with this to the immense benefit of us all.

      Sorry, got a little evangelical there,
      but honestly, this can be done,
      we have all the necessary ideas, insights, building blocks and patterns from which to build this.

      Through putting some months into a shared language effort, we could actually leap-frog
      across the otherwise seemingly inevitable two years of code-standards-implementation-usability confusion.

      Put my notions into whichever context you'd like,
      RDF, XML, OPML, API, FOAF and you'll discover the actual business confusion, driven by the desire for recognition of individual efforts.

      So again, to return to your very insightful post,
      "enabler" is the exact right concept,
      and, we need a framework from where we can execute on our enablements.

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