The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Here are the concise references focused on revolution. For corruption, collective intelligence, open space and other methods of non-violent consensus building and emergence, see the lists at the end of this post.
Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today
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found this site of project comparisons on GNU social site. perhaps something useful here?
Commodity webhosting approach
StatusNet .. Crabgrass .. ownCloud .. Diaspora .. Elgg .. Cyn.in .. Lorea .. Pinax .. Open Atrium .. SMOB .. BuddyPress .. Daisychain .. Partuza .. The Appleseed Project .. Socknet .. Get6d .. Knowee .. Dutch .. exo Social .. DiSo .. Movim .. Jappix .. HelloWorld .. OpenCollab .. Kopal .. RSSN .. Noosfero.. Friendika .. NOT FREE: iSocial .. Persona .. Safebook
Federation of Servers approach
XMPP .. OneSocialWeb .. Google Wave .. Mycelia .. PSYC .. Higgins ..
Peer-to-peer (P2P) / Distributed Hashtable (DHT) approach
GNUnet .. I2P .. Tahoe LAFS .. CSpace .. Angelapp .. RetroShare .. The Circle .. Sydnie .. Netsukuku .. Peerscape .. NOT FREE: LifeSocial .. PeerSoN .. Opera Unite .. Osiris ..
Social desktop applications
Nepomuk for KDE .. Social Desktop for KDE ..
In-browser profile + certificates approach
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Distributed Node Architecture
Distnode
REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.
On June 1, 2001, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.”
Microsoft fears GNU/Linux, and rightly so. GNU/Linux and the Open Source & Free Software movements arguably represent the greatest threat to Microsoft's way of life. Shot in cinemascope on 35mm film in Silicon Valley, REVOLUTION OS tracks down the key movers and shakers behind Linux, and finds out how and why Linux became such a potent threat.
REVOLUTION OS features interviews with Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael Tiemann, Larry Augustin, Frank Hecker, and Rob Malda. To view the trailer or the first eight minutes go to the ifilm website for REVOLUTION OS.
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Iceland Rejects Deposit Repayments to British, Dutch
Wall Street Journal, 10 April 2011
For the second time, Icelanders voted down a deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands billions of euros lost in the island nation's 2008 financial collapse—at once a bold popular rejection of the notion that taxpayers must bear the burden for bankers' woes and a risky outcome that will complicate Iceland's efforts to rejoin global markets.
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The post Search: errors that resulted in great ideas and especially the comment on need to fully integrate women and minorities reminded me of Ellen Swallow Richards. She was one of the first publicly acknowledged female heavy-weights in intellect and values in the USA, in my opinion. See especially her later books, The Cost of Food, The Cost of Shelter, The Art of Right Living, The Cost of Cleanness, Sanitation in Daily Life (1907), and Euthenics, the Science of Controllable Environment (1910). I had forgotten that she was also responsible for introducing the word “ecology” into the English language.
Wikipedia/Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 19th century, pioneering the field of home economics. Richards graduated from Westford Academy (2nd oldest secondary school in Westford, MA). She was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its first female instructor, the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to earn a degree in chemistry.
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It can safely be said that most great ideas result from errors (including accidents), because the real break-throughs occur when the prevailing paradgim (“business as usual”) is so demonstrably unfit as to call into question its further utility OR something really sensational is discovered that is totally inconsistent with the prevailing paradigm. PERSISTENCE rooted in INTEGRITY is the key. That is a definition of sanity. Persistence rooted in LACK OF integrity–continuing to do the wrong thing, even the wrong thing righter–is insanity. Dissent is an “error” of the system. Repressing dissent is a crime against humanity and refuses the commensurate discovery that dissent offers. The lunacy continues.
Although there was nothing specific on this site directly focused on your tremendous inquiry, here are a few things we have found that address your question and also add to the value of this public intelligence blog.
Great quote: “A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Key historical assertion: “…Bacon devised the trial and error method of finding knowledge while cataloguing very carefully all the circumstances of these trials.”
Great Scientific Discoveries of the Twentieth Century
9 things invented or discovered by accident
Our greatest error has been to repress women and minorities. Women have smaller egos and better intuition than men do, and are hard-wired for open-ended compassion instead of closed-mind “justice”, which makes all the difference in humanity. Minorities bring diversity of experience, need, and low-cost solutions that the Industrial Era Empire refuses to consider because it treats humans as a commodity to be exploited, not as the co-owner and co-creater of all that we might enjoy.
Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance — Carol Gilligan Speaks at MIT
Review: Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women’s Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education
Review: All Rise–Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity
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