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Home ERDE/ RecentChanges SandBox Forum Search Contributors Projects ERDE MIR ERICA AllFolders AllPages Help Preferences EditPage				Difference (last change) (no other diffs, normal page display) Changed: 1c1 VarenaMeeting AndriusKulikauskas: I've moved this to: VarenaMeeting Deleted: 3d2 Andrius Kulikauskas writes: Deleted: 5,45d3 Yes, I'm interested to participate in ERDE and I think your wiki will help me understand more about that. Franz has been quite inspirational in helping me see, particularly in The Balkans, the value of village centered life. My laboratory, Minciu Sodas, http://www.ms.lt, serves and organizes independent thinkers, so my emphasis is on the value in people. As a businessman, I think that "wealth is relationships", so I look to integrate people and thereby generate wealth and also overcome poverty. My conclusion last year was that the advantage of villages, for independent thinkers, is that just a few people can have a remarkable influence over the entire environment. In a city, we have to take much more on faith, we are less able to see our influence on our environment, it takes a lot more people. So villages are great laboratories and one of my dreams is to have a network of such villages/laboratories in Lithuania and around the world. Also, independent thinkers in the villages might themselves be not directly valuable in business, but I see that they can attract the curiosity and spirit of the young people who are enormously employable. Also, a core of such self-educated, self-directed people makes it possible for investors to fund their own dream projects (such as a summer home, or a village business) which unfortunately they often can't do because they have nobody they can trust. And because they aren't integrated into the village. Villages can be quite harsh on people! and quite depressing, too, objectively. Also I am keen to organize a system of self-education where self-learners might hang out with independent thinkers in the villages and draw inspiration and restful thought for their own pursuits. An alternative to college, especially in the developing world, I think. My priority now is to set up a system for us "social instigators" to act most effectively. I'm using the KMWiki to prototype an OpenNetwork? of OpenPeople? who agree that, at places they indicate, the content they bring and generate is in the PublicDomain except where it notes otherwise. http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?OpenPeople The idea is to identify the open-spirited people, be aware of the material that they generate in the public domain, draw from that to circulate ideas and energy, and then create a natural system of channels for getting things done. I'm very happy if we might sign up! AndriusKulikauskas: I've moved this to: VarenaMeeting