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
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
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Coworking" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected].
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
