[Upd-discuss] Thursday chat with Suresh and Andrius about Pooled Fund Initiative

[Andrius Kulikauskas]

Hi Seth, Richard and all,  I invite you to this chat with Suresh, a 
pioneer in open business models and a great thinker.  Andrius 
Kulikauskas, ms@ms.lt
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I invite all who are interested to chat about the future of Minciu Sodas 
http://www.ms.lt to come to our chat room http://www.worknets.org/chat/  
tomorrow, Thursday, January 14, 2010, starting 9:00 Vancouver, 12:00 New 
York, 17:00 London, 20:00 Nairobi.

We'll be chatting specifically with Suresh Fernando about Open Kollab 
http://wiki.openkollab.com http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab and 
the Pooled Fund Initiative 
http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/openkollab-pooled-fund 
Suresh Fernando has experience in the financial world and has also 
thought a lot about life, philosophy, society, morality, economics and 
business. He's currently devoting himself to the Pooled Fund Initiative, 
which I think of as a 2,000,000 USD credit line shared by an ecosystem 
of openly collaborative enterprises.   He's working closely with Michel 
Bauwens http://www.p2pfoundation.net, Sam Rose http://forwardfound.org, 
Steve Bosserman and many others.  They are starting to map out an 
ecosystem of open manufacturers.

I will be writing soon, hopefully before the chat, about my own vision 
for Minciu Sodas this coming year.  I look forward to all of our visions 
and dreams.  Certainly, I look forward to working closely with Suresh to 
map out ecosystems - probably those more related to nonphysical culture 
- to look for clients and to think especially about the ethics, the 
morality of our new culture and how to base our new education system on 
communicating that morality as the foundation for all of our "caring 
about thinking".

Please join us! and we're interested to expand and include your 
endeavors, perhaps as candidates for the Pooled Fund Initiative.

I also alert us to my case study 
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?MornflakeOutreach  of our work last 
summer for Leon Benjamin http://www.winningbysharing.net and the London 
advertising agency The Law Firm Group on behalf of Mornflake cereal 
http://www.mornflake.com and their online video contest 
http://www.mornflakecompetition.net    This is a practical example of 
how and why we organize global teams of independent thinkers, in this 
case for paid work from the corporate world.  My main observation is 
that corporate culture has businesses be reliable but not authentic, and 
human culture has humans be authentic but not reliable.  We can have 
them work together - stay authentic but achieve reliability - if we 
build in all kinds of redundancy as we organize people.  This may be 
helpful as we organize our ecosystems.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@ms.lt
+370 699 30003

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Hi Andrius,

Thank you so much for this. [ 
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?MornflakeOutreach ].  Interestingly I'm 
in Hong Kong later this week to present to regional CIOs and a Hotel 
Group on the use/benefits of social media and will be speaking about 
your work and the form and function of MS Labs - more on this soon.

I'll read the case study and get back to you with my comments over the 
next few days.

Warm regards,

Leon.