[Upd-discuss] Public Domain Fashion; Internet STreaming

[Michael Hart]

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On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Andrius Kulikauskas wrote:

> Ana Ilic  Lagundjin, I was very happy that Sasha and Zdenka Mrkailo and I
> could learn about you at the Cafe Des Arts in Sombor, Serbia.  I'm glad
> that you've started working together on Public Domain Fashion.  I share
> your letter with the Global Villages working group and also with the
> COMMUNIA mailing list.
>
> I also note that our team in Lithuania has suggested that they come to the
> London COMMUNIA meeting to do live video streaming as we did in Vilnius.
> Zenonas Anusauskas has done this for the Parliament, City Hall, etc. ever
> more creatively.  And I propose that our team offer to do this for the
> Oekonux meeting which will take place March 27-29 in Manchester, UK
> http://www.oekonux-conference.org immediately after COMMUNIA meeting March
> 26-27
> ttp://blog.okfn.org/2008/12/19/5th-communia-workshop-london-26-27th-march-2009/
> It would be a way to build bridges with the Oekonux community.
>
> Andrius Kulikauskas
> Minciu Sodas
> http://www.ms.lt
> ms@ms.lt
>
>
> Hi Andrius Kulikauska,
> Thanks for wish to invite me and included in Public Domain Feshion.
> I wish immediately ansver and thanks,but first wants to see Zdenka
> and Sasa and today I consults with them.
> We are very interested for made brend and to make paterns for feshon
> creation and invited all people to use,share,modify,copy...
> I will be able and must to put question abouth sample designe for
> textil whot is basis to make designe for clouths.Also importent
> things air-transport and prices for customs.
>
> I am interested for short children book,make illustration with
> children on class in elementaru private school.
>
> Also Zdenka and I spoke about patern" Bebi Twister" games for
> children and Sasa will help in web-prezetacion-publishing.
>
> I hope that you well-informed to have got reason for invite us in
> London.
>
> Ana Ilic  Lagundjin
>
>
> -----------------
>
> -- In Minciu_Sodas_BOS@yahoogroups.com, "Andrius Kulikauskas"
> <ms@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings from Bosnia!  I just came back from Sombor, Serbia where I
>>> visited Sasha Mrkailo and his family and greeted the New Year.
> This week
>>> I give and grade algebra finals.
>>>
>>> Then I fly to Boston where I arrive Sunday, January 11, early
> evening and
>>> meet up with Edward Cherlin of Earth Treasury
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/earthtreasury/  We're attending the
> One
>>> Laptop Per Child's XO Camp 2 miniconference, January 12-16.
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2  Edward leads an endeavor to
> create
>>> open source electronic textbooks.  I've agreed to create mathematics
>>> learning materials in the Public Domain.  Edward and I and others
> will
>>> look for funding and business opportunity.  This will be a priority
> for me
>>> for the next few months, whether or not I teach here in Bosnia next
>>> semester (and it's still not clear).  I will be writing up a set of
>>> "classic math problems" and consider how they build on each other,
> much
>>> like architect Christopher Alexander's pattern languages.  I
> encourage us
>>> to join our efforts.  I look forward to staying with Barbara Horst
> and, if
>>> possible, visit Janet Feldman. I would like to visit Wolfram
> Science.
>>> Education will be a key theme for our network this year.
>>>
>>> Janet Feldman, Franz Nahrada, Jeff Buderer, Benoit Couture and
> others have
>>> brought up another key theme that we've grown to take up.  That's
> the idea
>>> of "we", what does that mean? and how does that work?  I look
> forward to
>>> our new ideas.  My own aspirations are:
>>> * to lead Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt as founder and owner as a
> haven
>>> for independent thinkers where all are invited to work openly on
> their
>>> projects in the Public Domain, share and give free services, and
> come
>>> together for work for pay. Minciu Sodas should be large enough for
> me to
>>> make a living and support my projects.  Perhaps a few hundred active
>>> members is enough.  I'm interested that all at Minciu Sodas
> participate at
>>> their fullest, but I want to downplay any sense of "we" and instead
> by
>>> sensitive to what our individual interests truly are. I would like
> to work
>>> together with many more such laboratories which have their own
>>> founders/owners.
>>> * to organize WorkNets http://www.worknets.org as a culture of
> independent
>>> thinkers, perhaps 100,000 active and 1,000,000 supportive, enough
> to take
>>> up every issue in life; to nurture creativity that encourages
> people to
>>> care for each other, fall in love and raise children; to have a
> strong
>>> economy, self-learning program, technology base, festival calendar;
> to
>>> reach out to all; to intervene for those who ask for help; to govern
>>> ourselves as relevant; to engage and enjoy God.  I aspire that
> WorkNets be
>>> what Jesus calls the Kingdom of Heaven and that it merge
> constructively
>>> with all other such networks.
>>>
>>> I'm very interested how to define the WorkNets culture as the
> minimal
>>> expectations for including all people, inasmuch as they are self-
> directed.
>>> Pamela McLean and I recently spoke by phone, which I found very
> helfpul,
>>> because she's very sensitive to when I'm speaking what I myself
> think and
>>> when I'm implying that we all accept some value.  My thought is to
> author
>>> a WorkNets charter with the expectations for participants, starting
> with
>>> the basic rules and ideas.  This charter might be updated as we go
> on.  I
>>> think a simple way to accept this charter would be to put up at
> one's
>>> website a banner or widget with our feeds (Meet with us! Shop with
> us!
>>> Network with us! Chat with us!)  I look forward to our thoughts and
> our
>>> alternatives.  A related theme for me this year will be making our
>>> websites cohesive so that we can access and contribute content in
>>> productive ways.
>>>
>>> We have almost 4,000 euros in travel money to attend the COMMUNIA
> meeting
>>> on March 26-27, 2009, in London, hosted by the Open Knowledge
> Foundation
>>> on the topic  "Accessing, Using and Reusing Public Sector Content
> and
>>> Data" which very much relates to open source textbooks.  The
> COMMUNIA
>>> meetings are becoming more work-oriented and can include additional
> topics
>>> we bring up.  Also, they are an opportunity for us to come together
> as we
>>> did last March in Vilnius.
>>>
>>> Natural topics for London include:
>>> * Public Domain textbooks, especially in mathematics. I will be
> able to
>>> share my results.
>>> * Open source hardware.  Graham Knight of DIY Solar is in the UK,
> and we
>>> could fly in Peter Ongele and Samwel Kongere, for example.
>>> * Public Domain fashion.  I have given Sasha Mrkailo $260 of which
> $60 is
>>> for sending the Pyramid of Peace videos to Rachel and Kennedy and
> me, and
>>> $200 is for 2 months work at $100 to develop business opportunities
> for
>>> our lab, small and large.  In particular, I encouraged him to
> support his
>>> wife Zdenka's talent in fashion design.  We met in Sombor at Cafe
> des Arts
>>> with Ana Ilic Lagundzin, an experienced fashion designer and
> creative
>>> organizer.  They were all very interest in Public Domain fashion
> which
>>> would invite all people to use, share, modify, copy African
> textiles, to
>>> use and change designs and patterns that Ana and Zdenka will make,
> and
>>> also to be interested in the people who create these works and
> learn their
>>> stories.  I even suggested "high fashion sanitary pads" made in
> Africa as
>>> a business opportunity.  Fashion may be perfect for showing the
> value of
>>> the Public Domain.  COMMUNIA meets this summer in Torino and we
> might
>>> organize a related event in Italy.
>>> * We will also bring together all of our topics, our individual
> endeavors
>>> and our shared concerns.
>>>
>>> I ask us now to think, who might like to come to London? who would
> we like
>>> to see there? who might help organize our meeting there?  who might
> write
>>> invitations for our African participants?
>>>
>>> Pamela McLean is interested to participate, but not as the chief
>>> organizer.  So we need help to organize this.  It's not that
> complicated,
>>> but I ask for our leadership, especially those of us living in the
> UK.
>>> Certainly, we'll adapt our program to the goals of our UK leaders,
> and
>>> together we'll think through who we might best invite.
>>>
>>> I encourage us to act quickly so that by the end of January we have
> a
>>> clear plan and we can write invitations to our African
> participants.  This
>>> meeting could be a great catalyst for our work.  Please let us know
> why
>>> you might like to participate!
>>>
>>> P.S. By "our" I would encourage us to think more and more in terms
> of
>>> WorkNets as we can "share" that much more than we can Minciu Sodas,
> which
>>> I own.  I am taking the lead to organize WorkNets as a culture of
>>> independent thinkers, and so ultimately it must be shared and thrive
>>> without me.  Whereas Minciu Sodas is a business for me to make my
> living,
>>> if at all possible, living from Lithuania, and need not persist.
>>>
>>> Andrius Kulikauskas
>>> Minciu Sodas
>>> http://www.ms.lt
>>> ms@...
>>>
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