Kickstarter project you might be interested in
Miles Fidelman
I just launched a Kickstater project that might
interest some of you.
At various times, I've been involved in various efforts to help startup and small organizations - most notably as one of the original founders of the MIT Enterprise Forum, and building a couple of early online marketplaces for small companies. Over the years, my "thing" has been the theory and practice of using the Internet to support virtual organizations. Over 40 years, I've scratched this itch by working on everything from list hosting, to C2 systems and distributed simulation, to electronic town meetings, online rulemakings, and webmarkets.
I've been particularly interested in tools to support virtual teams and projects - sort of providing the electronic counterpart to co-working spaces. I've continued to find that the simplest tools seem to be the most effective - particularly email lists, and various forms of shared/synchronized documents, both on paper (musical scores, theatrical scripts) and electronic (RFCs, linked spreadsheets, military mission orders distributed by email).
The Kickstarter project represents a distillation of a lot of ideas about how to support virtual projects and teams with "smart documents." It started out as some funded work on "smart op orders" that I'm trying to generalize as an open source tools. I'm nominally calling them "smart notebooks" - and the core idea is "keeping people on the same page, across the net." Think of a composer, writing some music, then handing out pages to orchestra members, then telling people to mark up their pages - then think about writing in a web browser, distributing by email, and linking the pages so markups propagate automatically. Functionally, I've been thinking of the tool as a cross between a DayRunner on steroids, and HyperCard, retooled for groups, running in a browser. No new tools to install, no fancy groupware running in the cloud - just web apps executing locally, email, and a P2P protocol.
I encourage you to take a look at
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
and if you're so moved, get on board.
If you can help spread the word - by reposting/retweeting/slashdotting/putting and so forth - that would really be helpful. If you know anybody at Wired or Gizmodo, that would also be helpful (seems like coverage by one of those is a really good vehicle to successful Kickstarter funding).
If you have a project coming up that needs tools for supporting a
distributed effort - say a large crowdsourcing project, or
organizing a large event - I'm looking for scenarios to support -
particuarly if you're funded :-) If you run a co-working space,
and think this might be useful to your tenants, let me know!
And there's a 30-day clock running, so sooner is better!
Thank you very much for any support you might offer,
Miles Fidelman
-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Randall G. Arnold
Miles,
I'm highly interested and may very well pitch in.
I wrote along similar lines not long ago (http://texrat.net/what-is-tribal-method/) because like you and many others I've seen this need for quite some time. I put my own plans on hold though because I started seeing others who were way ahead of me in implementing solutions...
Randy
On July 30, 2012 at 10:14 AM Miles Fidelman <mfid...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I just launched a Kickstater project that might interest some of you.
>
> At various times, I've been involved in various efforts to help startup
> and small organizations - most notably as one of the original founders
> of the MIT Enterprise Forum, and building a couple of early online
> marketplaces for small companies. Over the years, my "thing" has been
> the theory and practice of using the Internet to support virtual
> to electronic town meetings, online rulemakings, and webmarkets.
>
> I've been particularly interested in tools to support virtual teams and
> projects - sort of providing the electronic counterpart to co-working
> spaces. I've continued to find that the simplest tools seem to be the
> most effective - particularly email lists, and various forms of
> shared/synchronized documents, both on paper (musical scores, theatrical
> scripts) and electronic (RFCs, linked spreadsheets, military mission
> orders distributed by email).
>
> The Kickstarter project represents a distillation of a lot of ideas
> about how to support virtual projects and teams with "smart
> documents."It started out as some funded work on "smart op orders" that
> same page, across the net." Think of a composer, writing some music,
> then handing out pages to orchestra members, then telling people to mark
> up their pages - then think about writing in a web browser, distributing
> by email, and linking the pages so markups propagate
> running in a browser. No new tools to install, no fancy groupware
> running in the cloud - just web apps executing locally, email, and a P2P
> protocol.
>
>
> I encourage you to take a look at
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
> and if you're so moved, get on board.
>
> If you can help spread the word - by
> reposting/retweeting/slashdotting/putting and so forth - that would
> vehicle to successful Kickstarter funding).
>
>
> If you have a project coming up that needs tools for supporting a
> distributed effort - say a large crowdsourcing project, or organizing a
> large event - I'm looking for scenarios to support - particuarly if
> you're funded :-) If you run a co-working space, and think this might
> be useful to your tenants, let me know!
>
>
> And there's a 30-day clock running, so sooner is better!
>
>
> Thank you very much for any support you might offer,
>
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
> --
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
>
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Randall G. Arnold
Miles,
Based on your Kickstarter project, I thought you (and the group in general) might be interested in this article on personal data control: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/01/iphone/
Randy
>
> I just launched a Kickstater project that might interest some of you.
>
> At various times, I've been involved in various efforts to help startup
> and small organizations - most notably as one of the original founders
> of the MIT Enterprise Forum, and building a couple of early online
> marketplaces for small companies. Over the years, my "thing" has been
> the theory and practice of using the Internet to support virtual
> to electronic town meetings, online rulemakings, and webmarkets.
>
> I've been particularly interested in tools to support virtual teams and
> projects - sort of providing the electronic counterpart to co-working
> spaces. I've continued to find that the simplest tools seem to be the
> most effective - particularly email lists, and various forms of
> shared/synchronized documents, both on paper (musical scores, theatrical
> scripts) and electronic (RFCs, linked spreadsheets, military mission
> orders distributed by email).
>
> The Kickstarter project represents a distillation of a lot of ideas
> about how to support virtual projects and teams with "smart
> documents."It started out as some funded work on "smart op orders" that
> same page, across the net." Think of a composer, writing some music,
> then handing out pages to orchestra members, then telling people to mark
> up their pages - then think about writing in a web browser, distributing
> by email, and linking the pages so markups propagate
> running in a browser. No new tools to install, no fancy groupware
> running in the cloud - just web apps executing locally, email, and a P2P
> protocol.
>
>
> I encourage you to take a look at
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
> and if you're so moved, get on board.
>
> If you can help spread the word - by
> reposting/retweeting/slashdotting/putting and so forth - that would
> vehicle to successful Kickstarter funding).
>
>
> If you have a project coming up that needs tools for supporting a
> distributed effort - say a large crowdsourcing project, or organizing a
> large event - I'm looking for scenarios to support - particuarly if
> you're funded :-) If you run a co-working space, and think this might
> be useful to your tenants, let me know!
>
>
> And there's a 30-day clock running, so sooner is better!
>
>
> Thank you very much for any support you might offer,
>
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
> --
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
>
Miles Fidelman
>
> Miles,
>
> Based on your Kickstarter project, I thought you (and the group in
> general) might be interested in this article on personal data control:
> http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/01/iphone/
>
personal data turns current markets on their head :-)
Miles