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“Let each person do his or her part.
If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of
us are going to suffer.
For the American idea, though it is shared by all
of us,
is realized in each one of us.”
~ Barbara
Jordan
Help!
Richard J Auld
Bookmark this page to follow WISdom Network
development events
Please involve others by promoting
this Web site.
Common sense and cooperative
principles require the participation of as many consumers as possible
to HELP :
1) make The WISdomProposal
itself as good as possible
Alternate proposals are encouraged
and may make use of all of this site's resources in their Web production
2) make
it happen!
A complete cross-section of personal backgrounds, interests and
abilities is required to develop,
and later to
implement this revolutionary consumers' network.
Please participate
in The WISdom Development Project.
Lifetime WISdom Co-op founding memberships
and promisory (resaleable?)
futures on franchises
will be awarded to active and effective project participants.
See Microsoft
PowerPoint slides about the newest of the transnational consumer co-operatives
- Coop Norden - a huge consumer co-op which brings together the Swedish,
Danish and Norwegian co-op movements. Get
Microsoft PowerPoint viewer.
See: Co-operatives
and Co-operation: Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success by Manfred
Davidmann
On
the Agenda
Gather
Qualified Collaborators
Replace
commercial versions of the Wisdom Discussion and Newsletter
mailing lists with Majordomo.
Rebuild
this website with Macromedia
Studio MX?
It will use essentially the same text
with excision of many technical details and some
graphics and presentation changes, but this is mostly a professional
production job, and I hope somebody with more experience at this will do
it for the good exposure, and to establish
a relationship with Open Source network content clients.
See:
Award winning Macromedia presentation. Nike.
This would be coordinated with the availability
of the WISdom Prospector demo.
Macromedia
Studio MX will also be used with the ManyOne
Portal Development Kit to help build the prototype content of various
categories, with emphasis on the facilitation
of simple updating or RSS feed by providers and producers.
Establishment
of The WISdom
Foundation, to develop and integrate Free/Open
Source WISdom Network software and other network facilities,
which
may be financially enabled by contractual arrangements with corporate and
other sponsors that partner in the WISdom Network development
Mission: To improve the quality of human life by promoting the development
and deployment of
a
consumer utility information service. Strategy: Support the development
of the
WISdom Network, and
the advancement of a Safe
Trustworthy Network Computing platform, the WISdom
Prospector and Network.
.
Board of Trustees
of the WISdom Foundation
Accepting
nominations 5-23-04
To be composed of reputable WISdom
mission advocates with varied backgrounds representative of the anticipated
membership of the proposed WISdom
Co-op, with essential representation from the consumer markets
businesses, Open Source IT, legal and financial professsions.
"Ask not what your country can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your country."
(and
the world)
~ John F Kennedy
Doug Schuler of CPSR's Public Sphere
Project, is looking for non-profits to try e-Liberate
software for online deliberation. Users need to be familiar
with Roberts Rules of Order.
The CPSR Public Sphere Project is dedicated to developing information and
communication systems that help people deal with social and environmental
problems. This software would be used to document online decisions
by the WISdom Foundation Board of Trustees.
Samples:
Registering:
Demonstration
Meeting Transcript:
Contact: douglas@scn.org
Pre
Release Marketing Activities
Publicity
Campaigns
Macromedia
Studio MX may be used to build a multimedia Web presentation
of my novel, The
Antichrist Virus, PPV proceeds to go to the WISdom Foundation.
Inform
Possible
Corporate Sponsors of the WISdom Foundation that the members
of the world wide WISdom Co-op consumers cooperative are to retain
full control of the cooperative's business affairs and all software
developed. The design of the WISdom Network services must
not be compromised by manipulating its operation in favor of financial
contributors. Some
members may feel that both the WISdom Co-op and Network should
be strictly "self-supporting, declining outside contributions".
Consumer
Media - One of the following could become the basis for WISdom
Services "new media" for consumer information via the network if they
want to survive over the long term. Yes, there will always
be some alternative consumer media market, but the high power will
come fast and once established, the power will always
be here on consumer goods, services, and information rating services delivery.
Consumer Reports - Given the brush off
6-15-03
Consumer Digest - No response (6-15-03)
ConsumerSearch - Pending (03-03-04)
Transportation
- Since all the following stand to gain by increased e-commerce individual
and group shipments, or lose by increased rail shipments generated
by the WISdom Network, they probably should all have equal opportunity
to contribute to the network's development costs and share in the glory.
Special system integration deals of limited duration are possible; therefore,
these corporations may want to develop a standard protocol for the way
that transportation carriers of all kinds interact with the WISdom
Network, and that's just fine for us.
Union Pacific -
This proposal favors
rail transportation of consumer goods, because of the WISdom
Co-op's aggregation
of consumer goods orders and the efficiency and ecological friendliness
of rail transportation for high volumes. National
security requires provision for quick response to possible localized
interruptions of rail services, with ground and/or air transportation backup
systems and facilities. The WISdom Co-op will need
the guidance of those who have
"been online for the last 150 years"
and are knowledgable about supply chain management and rail transportation
systems.
UPS - Referred to snail mail contact (7-5-03, no response)
FEDEX
DHL
Old
Media - One of the following should be interested in real
"new media", not the likes of AOL.
Time Warner - No repoonse (6-15-03)
Anybody else want to help?
New Media
Netscape?
- No response (6-15-03)
ManyOne - A foundation itself, close cooperation
and collaboration with the WISdom Foundation would be to our
mutual benefit and WISdom Foundation's sponsorship base is potentially
large (8-11-03).
Various Mozilla Developers - No response (7-15-03)
MacroMedia
Macromedia would expand its
market dominance with
(discounted?)
sales of Macromedia MX Studio to many
WISdom Network franchisees and local area cooperatives, WISdom
Network
media co-ops,
and many of
its
independent
authors and journalists. Do they have any other interest
in promoting this proposal? WISdom Co-op members will need
to negotiate with Macromedia to prevent their dependence on this supplier.
Tech Media
C-Net
PC Magazine and
other ZiffDavis Productions -
Network
and Desktop Software Providers
Microsoft?
~ They sure don't need the WISdom Co-op as competition,
and they can't do this themselves, but maybe they will provide Open
Source subscription services for the WISdom Co-op vis the WISdom
Foundation. Stranger things have happened. It all depends on
if their recently expressed interest in supporting Open Source software
is actually sincere - this is seriously in question at this point (9-04).
BEA
Systems ~ Favorite Open Systems Service Oriented Architecture "Liquid
Computing"
Open Source - Network Services Providers
Sun
Oracle
Novell/SuSE/Ximian
IBM
Red Hat
ObjectWeb
Virtual
Private Network and Allied Software such as Identity Management and Security
Event Management Providers
... my favorites go here - The center
of WISdom Network's competitive strength is trusting customers/members.
Supply well here and sell the company and its "business methods and processes"
as WISdom Co-op Central Services' Network Virtual Automated Security
Staff on call 24/7/365 to remotely support the resident WISdom Network
Security staff.
TNT
Symark
Secur-Soft
B2B SCM
System Providers - This is a high visibility
application that must support the WISdom Network's progressive streamlining
of the members' supply chains to disintermediate
everybody except the producers. Opportunity to profitably
sell the company and its "business methods and processes" here too.
I2 Technologies
... more favorites
Inform
Qualified WISdom
Network Discussion Participants
Electronic Freedom
Foundation
Privacy
Rights Clearinghouse
Cooperative Development Foundation
Inform
Prospective Members and
Franchisees
Stay
in contact and collaborate
with above and with WISdom Network Software Developers
Start
The World Wide WISdom
Co-op
Retain
Legal Counsel
Incorporation
or LLC formation for the World Wide WISdom Consumers Cooperative
as
501(c)(3)
Development
of the world wide WISdom Co-op consumers cooperative
constitution
Protection
of Members and Franchisees -
A
Bill of Rights
World
Wide Consumers Cooperative is Franchisor
Franchises
to be Auctioned
Limitation
to one Local Area per Franchisee
Franchise
Resale Market
All Fees Remain
in Escrow Until "Critical
Mass" is Reached
Open
Book Management of Franchises Required
Generous
Fair Price Buyouts of Franchises Required
Generous
Fair Price Formulas
Codification of the Types
of Issure that Require Local or Central Member Voting
Member
voting required on Provider and Producer content contract special provisions,
including the conditional imposition of fines and other disciplinary action.
The requirements of the
US and
allied countries WISdom Co-op's world trade community
..............
.
.~
"The Supreme Court of Free World WISdom"
~
Members own their MINEs
MINE
access by legitimate governmental regulation and authority only
All
voting must be freely done in strictest secrecy
Enforcement
supervision by cooperation witth the world wideWISdom
Co-op is facilitated
No
Revenue Distributions Before "Critical Mass"
Proposed World
Wide WISdom Consumers Cooperative (WISdom Co-op) Operation
Organization
Structure
This is not a minimal startup requirement;
it is rather a goal that should be attained before the WISdom
Network reaches "critical
mass".
WISdom Co-op's elected Members
of the Board elect a COB and Appoint CEO, CFO,COO, CIO, etc.
WISdom Co-op would operate
with Purchasing Cooperatives whose Members are WISdom
Co-op Members with WISdom
Network Local Area Supply Line Management Responsibilities (Franchisees
or Local Area WISdom
Co-op Management).
Designate
types of issues that are member
voting or representative decisions
Sponsor
the WISdom
Prospector Platform Advancement Project
Pro
Forma Local (zip code) Area Franchise and Consumer Cooperative Business
Plans
Contributions
of Discussion Participants
The author takes the
development of Linux and Free/Open
Source software (Mozilla, OpenOffice.org,et
al.) as the primary model for the means of WISdom Network development;
therefore, the optimization of remote communications is crucial to it's
success. This takes the eager cooperation of everyone who
becomes involved in the project. The evolutionary emergence
of future WISdom Co-op cooperative
leaders, franchisees,
and employees
begins here.
Join the following WISdom
Network Development Project Discussions today.
E-Mail
Note >> To facilitate
communications about this proposal, you
can embed Links in e-mails to relevant mini-sections
of the WISdom Proposal by copying their Link Location from
the
WISdom Proposal Contents
page. The WISdom Proposal Web Folder itself may be copied
and annotated for versatile inclusion in e-mail communications.
Also Note
>> Spammers to these addresses will be cut off and reported to whoever
can exact vengeance.
As
discussions proceed, I will establish email subject entries enabling primitive
Sort, Select and Analysis of email. Every reasonable effort will
be made to deal fairly with email will be made.
E-Mail Comments, Questions,
Criticisms and Suggestions to the Author
Rigorous criticism of any aspects
of the WISdom Proposal 2.1 is welcomed ~ indeed it is required.
All contributions will be duly attributed to originating parties by various
means within this proposal, for example the mini-section buttons
may be convenient locations for contributing author "by lines".
Significant changes to the overall proposal may be sufficient to
increment the current proposal's version number, and such contributions
will be acknowledged by the WISdom
Copyleft.
E-Mail
Prospective Member/Franchisee Inquiries
E-Mail pledge of support
for WISdom Co-op development
NetMeeting/IM
chat
Please
Arrange
NetMeetings and IM chat sessions by E-mail with "IM Session Request"
in the Subject. Just request a date/time and state the
desired topic of discussion, and I will reply quickly since I'll be checking
my e-mail frequently. Videoconferencing, whiteboarding, and
chat are seen as a major communication media for this project.
E-Mailing
List
The
WISdom Discussion recirculating mailing list will be a major
means of WISdom Proposal group communications, so please don't abuse
it. WISdom Discussion archives
are available to all. Join
the WISdom discussion today. After joining post
messages to this discussion by sending
mail to WISdomDiscussion@topica.com.
Private and public Listserv's will
be created as necessary to serve WISdom SIG discussion groups,
such as franchisee groups with distributed management cooperating for buying
powers.
E-Mail
Newsletter
The
WISdom Development Project Newsletter will summarize periodically
the ongoing progress of the WISdom Development project.
The Project Newsletter archives are available to all. Request
this newsletter today.
*WeBlogs
and a
WISdom
Blogosphere
are facilitated, and participants are encouraged to report on news
events, etc. that are related to their particular passion and interest
in the WISdom Proposal. RDF
and RSS syndication
will be supported.
Open Internet Moderated Newsgroups for Prospective Franchisees and Members
Conspire and collaborate with
others before taking the step to become a WISdom Network Local Services
franchisee or member. Develop alliances and other relationships
with peers, such as organizing purchasing co-ops, etc. that can
be pursued privately via email. Form a franchise buyers' coalition
to sew up the Washington, DC metropolitan area for WISdom Network
Services. Take over Texas (Wal-Mart
territory). Have
fun!
Informational
and Promotional Communications With Interested Parties
Illustrated
Paper Magazine
An illustrated paper magazine format
WISdom Proposal might be published.
Paper
Book
A fictionalized
account about life in a WISdom Network empowered country should
be published to raise development funds and promote widespread public
support.
Stand
Alone Prototype/Demo
A stand
alone prototype/demo of the WISdom
Prospector and portions of the Virtual
Specialties Markets Search, ReSearch, and Analysis functions
need
to be created.
Become
a ManyOne Steward and use ManyOne's
Portal Development Kit to build an annotated demo of a member's
experience in "shopping for content".
MINE
and some other functions may be stubbed and merely explained, but external
controls should be present in the GUI
There is no
CGSIDb,
so:
Need to create demo WISdom
Network Producer and Provider CGSIDb test data for:
At least
several GSI-types of Goods
At least several GSI-types of Services
At least several GSI-types of "pure" Information
Show what can be done with this software vs. Consumer
Reports magazine and conventional
Web approaches.
The Proprietor and selected
services of the VSM Analyzer should work as specified on the above,
or alternative demo data submitted by community
model participants. This community participative demo approach would
be continually followed in all WISdom
Network software upgrade efforts.
Pro
Forma Local (zip code) Area Franchise and Consumer Cooperative Business
Plans
These need to be created and
approved by an independent authority as WISdom
Network Strategic Business Intelligence displays that integrate widely
available information about consumer goods and services volumes by area
with economic models for
the prospective zip code areas. They would speed
the processing of franchise applications and help spur the sale of
franchises. They would also ease the birthing of local area
consumer cooperatives.
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