This page can be used to facilitate our emergent synthesis, both for nomadic and location specific viable systems solutions.

"Context described below"

Show yourself as "interested" / or define your interest as collaborator

Your name, or nickname + Email/Website/Contact ( click edit on right hand side )

Dante-Gabryell Monson - dante.monson - at - gmail ,

based in Brussels ( 2011 )

Moritz - moritz - at - hackerbus dot eu

roaming, mostly in Germany

Devin - devin - at - beex - dot - org, based in New York, occupy everywhere/opensource everything
you ?

Groups you know and want to get involved?

For Direct Collaboration + contact

your informal group of friends ? ( and its current location and projects ? )

For inspiration

note : if you can not, or if you wish not show it on this page, you can also send it to Dante ( dante.monson - at - gmail . com )

Context and Vision

3 November 2011

Dante :

I wish to provide an

experimental ground for our interests

and learn together by creating more autonomous, self organizing, emergent, local yet globally networked viable systems.

I wish to ask for feedback, and converge such feedback on a specifically allocated wiki / website / or drupal platform, for which support is also needed.

Add you name above if interested.

Various groups and mailing lists already exist. feel free to add url's of the ones you know above.

Feel free to share url's to projects, mailinglists, or the location of informal groups of people and possibly the name/nickname of such groupings ( and their contact )

Priorities can go into providing visibility towards solutions for shared living experiences ( such as meetings, collectives, living spaces - static and/or nomadic - ... )

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I wish to find an easy way to converge such data about people's pledges, and visualize a "value network" map of inter-dependencies.

I also wish to find people who feel enthusiastic about translating the following message into a more attractive way. ( asking for any inspiration and contributions from people who write, draw - comics ? - , can produce short videos, ... )

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How do you position yourself in relation to defining and building up a viable systems project ?

I propose, as a test for further projects all over the world, to use Leipzig / Leipzig Projects as an experiment.

http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project

The aim is to inspire and engage people to collaborate, progressively providing a sense of shared , visible accomplishment.

and at first, to draft/define aims and needs, set up a list of priorities

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Based on your own interests, where would you like to position your contributions if you like to contribute to such visions, and what do you need to collaborate in specific objectives, which themselves can fit within such larger picture ?

If I create a map ( or if I map it out on a wiki ), would you be willing to be included into it, and what information can you provide? :

availability, sweat equity contribution capability and its needs or conditions, current geographical situation or potential future situation, financial support and its conditions, other available resources and/or existing networked collaborations working on specific topics ( ? ) , ...

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It can ask pledges ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pledge ) , in the form of engagements and equity / sweat equity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_equity ) , even short term - measurable, combined with subjective mutual interdependent objectives based evaluations.

This includes :

- people collaborating on various tasks on the terrain ( Leipzig , and surrounding land ),

- people collaborating in their respective regions to converge engagements and further needed resources ( answers to specific questions : legal, financial, architectural, etc )

- alternative financial products, which are set into the commons ( using this commons crowdfunding mechanism ? http://www.goteo.org/?lang=en ) in exchange of long term measurable use value.

- such recognition and/or use value related guarantees can also be earned through participation.

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Interdependent Priorities :

For Collective Housing / Development Phase :

1a) Individuals in support of communication : drawings, leaflets, wiki-drupal-net platform, ... expressing a general vision, setting up tools for easily converging needed data, tools for coordinating pledges, mapping resources-questions-needs-contributions-interdependencies, ...

1) Setting up a centrally located base/aggregator in Leipzig which is comfortable to live in, and big enough to enable each individual to self organize in their own space, based on their affinity/relation/collaboration preferences, with defined temporary collectives. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective )

2) Supporting the development of "decentralized" bases in and around Leipzig, and all over the world, through proposing modular living structures, light weight, inexpensive , locally producible, co-developing open source research and development with a open copyleft / hardware license.

aka : Tensegrity Tents, with components that enable parametric design. see : http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe

3) Have a collective intelligence aggregator / team of people supporting each other in the definition of "code" and "legal solutions", itself supporting "financial solutions", in transparency of interdependencies of the "Value Networks" ( ? ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network

For example :

- set up of a not for profit organization in Germany for converging local support towards defining and building a viable system regionally. ( in Berlin and/or Leipzig ? )

- set up of a international not for profit organization in support of open source collaborative design of modular living structures ( in Brussels )

- set up of a Limited Liability Partnership structure ( in the UK - London ) for investment purposes.

- defining a combination of legal structures , as to enable a commons, interdependent oriented approach regarding ownership, such as separating land from buildings, studying various existing legal models such as Mietshauser Syndikat ( combination of cooperative, corporation and not for profit ? ) , ...

- definitions of contracts ( access to use value, visibility of contributions and recognition within gift economy, managing investments of capital in support of commons, conditions of usage and/or property holders, conditions related to usage of regional economic IOU's and their architecture, etc )

4) Set up recognition by means of measurement based on objectives

5) use web based solutions in development ? "Global Survival" collaborations with tools including Netention , ... : visualize current or future intentions, visualize interdependencies, visualize pledge future contributions, present contributions, past contributions, ...

6) reach out to organizations and movements who may benefit from a similar approach

thanks ! Dante-Gabryell Monson

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http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/uedalab/mirai/overview/overview-e.GIF

graphic from

http://www.race.u-tokyo.ac.jp/uedalab/mirai/overview/overview-e.html

Update 27 December 2011

This particular project will need to

emerge out of sharing.

I would be happy to find a similar organization as the

"Sustainable Economies Law Center"

http://www.shareable.net/users/sustainable-economies-law-center in Germany and other european countries.

If any of us has suggestions for

bootstrapping viable local sharing systems

, including access to infrastructure, without or with little money, they are welcome.

Perhaps you know of similar projects ? I am aware of some co-housing and co-working approaches, and other, more temporary 'free of rent' against 'renovation labor' models

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As for now, I found a person to buy a 100 000 euro building in Leipzig, as a first step to invite more people, in the form of a permanent collective, rent free.

But I still need to :

- Find people willing to host me in Berlin or Leipzig

, while...

- Finding a building to buy in Leipzig

- Finding people in Berlin / Leipzig ( or willing to move there ) to share and co-create such visions

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I have no surplus financial resources, and wish it to be accessible to others who have no, or very little financial resources, while making sure it avoids financial speculation over time as to remain accessible.

I imagine one of the floors of the building could become a Nomad Base http://nomadbase.org/ http://www.shareable.net/blog/every-guest-a-host-inside-a-nomad-base

I wish to include all the aspects mentioned in the articles, enable it to scale, progressively purchasing the cheapest nearby land, vacant factories for various local cooperative co-working spaces and production, with as objective to bootstrap a local autonomous economy with several thousand people self organizing across a network of small interdependent cooperatives.

I ( we ? ) now have a 100 000 euro budget to buy a first building, which will be shared / enable rent free hosting for people supporting a further development of ( their own ? ) inter-related projects in Leipzig, and more broadly a region stretching from Berlin to Leipzig.

The 100 000 euros comes out of some kind of agreement to have someone I know buy a building, but there is no budget to set up the legal frameworks , nor budget to cover living expenses while finding the appropriate first building.

Hence, if any of you lives in Berlin - or Leipzig - , and want to share some of your living space with me, or some food, I would be happy to use it as to find some more people interested in sharing and supporting such vision.

Other urban centers near Berlin may also be considered.

I am now based in Brussels.