OSE: Open Source Miscellaneous

Software
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Open Source Is Going Even More Open—Because It Has To

Google often gives its software away for free. It has long believed in open source software. But last week, the company took this idea to the next level.
Move over Skype, Facetime, Hangouts. Here comes Spreedbox, a fully open source, secure …

Spreedbox can offer private and secure video chat using Linux and open source technologies. All it needs is your support.

Jean Lievens: Buen Vivir – Future South

P2P / Panarchy, Resilience
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Buen Vivir: South America’s rethinking of the future we want

Buen Vivir is a concept and practice influencing politics and communities across South America. It involves a radically different way of thinking about collective wellbeing and sustainable living.

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Unlike any index based on logarithmic economic indicators, in Buen Vivir the subject of wellbeing is not the individual, but the individual within a community in relation to a specific cultural-natural environment.

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Yoda: 21st Century Leadership – 15 Aspects

Governance
Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

15 Ways Successful People Approach Life Differently

RULES ONLY:  1. They hate playing politics. 2. They love when others win. 3. They desperately want to see ideas come to fruition. 4. They're meta-thinkers. 5. They prefer to make or enhance the rules. 6. They believe nothing is sacred. 7. They love solving problems. 8. They're great at self-assessment. 9. They embrace nontechnical feedback. 10. They actively create their future selves. 11. They adore taking things off their plates. 12. They're awesome at leveraging self-reward. 13. They believe they're in total control . . . 14. . . . So their egos don't suffer when they fail. 15. They do everything with intent.

Eagle: Economic Grace of Social Credit

#OSE Open Source Everything, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

The Economic ‘Grace' of Social Credit

Christian philosophy holds that it is a major sin to make an end of a means. The rational purpose and end of production is consumption, not to create work (a means). An economic system should provide goods and services for mankind as efficiently as possible with minimal trouble and effort for all concerned.

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Third Parties Win Ballot Access in Pennsylvania

Access
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Average Joe Super Hero

Pennsylvania Third Parties Win Key Petition Ruling

The court ruling is a major victory for disparate Pennsylvania third parties on petitioning rules | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

This is a major victory for ballot access. The case was won by Oliver Hall, who has been Ralph Nader’s ballot access attorney for many years.

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JZ Liszkiewicz: Achieving Democracy

Culture, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience
JZ Liszkiewicz
JZ Liszkiewicz

One perspective is that the more energy and trust we direct at a system that doesn't deserve our energy and trust, the more lost opportunities accumulate (what could have been). People will counter this broken system, but I don't think it's going to be led by those within the political structure/re-structuring, or even be overtly deliberate.

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