Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow! Linus Law
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To get you thinking Would enough eyeballs make the problem of
climate change shallow? How about global conflict. Global economic
inequity.
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What We Will Talk About Today What is Strategic Confluence?
Context What Is OK? OK Goals Project Matching Execution: Driving
Collaboration in Ecosystems The OK Model The OK Community of
Practice
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Catalyzing Strategic Confluence Philosophically speaking
Confluence: a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at
one point the flowing together of two or more streams Generally we
think of confluence as something that emerges; as a natural process
that occurs under certain conditions. We might envision a flock of
birds. At times their flight paths might seem chaotic, but in time
they will coordinate their actions and act in concert; their
intentions aligning Strategic Confluence: What distinguishes
strategic confluence is that we, as agents have an intention to
create confluence; an intention to bring about the alignment of
intentions and harmony that then results.
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Strategic Confluence Practically speaking 1. Scalable Open
Collaboration Environment Low barrier to entry 2. Community of
Practice people and projects 3. Technology Solution: Platform or
Distributed Infrastructure that Matches Projects 4. Processes and
Models Drive and support collaboration, governance etc. Create
Infrastructure That Will Enable Mass Coordination and Mobilization
around large scale social problems
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Another Perspective Somebodys Theory of Needs! A Person Love
Work Friends Dating Sites Social Networking ??? No Open Space
killer app to connect people on basis of work synergy WHY? No one
has solve the Open Group Collaboration Problem!
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Why the timing is right for OK Context
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The Cultural Shift: societal Peer Production: distributed
infrastructure communication between network nodes Crowdsourcing:
accessing intelligence of masses - nodes Agility: ie. agile
software development iterative processdialogue BarCamps: commitment
to openness Chaordic Organizational structures: non-hierarchical
Top Down vs. Bottom Up Information Categorization: ie. Tagging vs.
pre- determined categories Citizen Journalism: power at the network
nodes Communities of Practice: learning as a social enterprise
based on dialogue and the the ease of communication and information
flow Copyleft: Creative Commons share-alike licensing Reflects
Transition from Centralization to Decentralization From Closed to
Open
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Communications Infrastructure Cultural Shift Cultural Shift
Parallels And Is Interdependent With Transformation of
Communications Infrastructure Time patterns contribute to cultural
patterns This relationship is due to the fact that communications
patterns contribute to cultural patterns
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A Historical Inflection Point Provides Context for Massive
Social Change Technological Transformation towards a decentralized
P2P architecture General social media trends toward real time
connectivity Cultural Transformation: towards Openness Global
Consciousness Internet Problems That Require Global Coordination:
climate change Demonstrated Failure of Western Institutions:
capitalism most recently Consciousness of responsibility for
climate change Therefore leads to transition from emphasis on
individuality to community There is a greater consciousness that
the status quo need not be so!
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OK Goals
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[OK_SUP]: Catalyze Strategic Confluence [OK_ SUB_1]: Aggregate
1,000,000 projects on platform [OK_ SUB_1]: Connect 100,000,000
people on platform Wow! Thats either brilliantly ambitious or
insane!
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Why connect 1,000,000 projects? Practically Speaking Market
Fragmentation/Redundancy: There are many different, but related
projects that could create critical mass and leverage by
collaborating Inefficient Deployment of Resources: Financial and
human capital resources are scarce and therefore efficiency
considerations are paramount. Inefficiency of Mission Alignment:
Due to lack of visibility into what other groups with similar
objectives are doing, opportunities for increased efficiency are
lost. Effective Social Change Is Better Served By Large Scale
Coordination and Mobilization Around Common Objectives
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How does OK connect 1,000,000 projects? Gather Project
Information Focus on Scalability Match Project Information Provide
Infrastructure to support Collaborative Dialogue
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How Does OK Gather Project Information? 1. Define a basic
ontology/meta-data structure 1. Goals, needs, resources 2. Provide
standardized input forms (relative to ontology) and standardized
syntax for distributed input (via Twitter, Facebook) 3. Focus on
penetrating Ecosystems
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Focus on Scalability To scale the process, four things have to
happen: 1. Ease of Entry for End User Natural Language Input 2.
Project Visibility Natural Language Input 3. Platform Must Add
Value must link projects! Semantic Matching 4. Organizational
Scalability: OK and Projects What is the model?
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Project Matching
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Objective Of Matching Process Create dialogue between
proximally related organizations about collaboration
possibilities
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How Do How You Identify Projects That Are Proximally Related?
Gather Meta Data about projects that will support linking them to
each other First Approximation Super/Sub-Ordinate Goals
Needs/Offers
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Goal: fight global warming Need: marketing support Offer:
strong developers Company ACompany B Goal: fight global warming
Need: strong developers Offer: marketing support Project
Matching
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Goal: fight global warming Need: marketing support Offers:
strong developers Company ACompany B Goal: fight climate change
Need: strong programmers Offers: marketing support Problem:
Semantic Ambiguity Semantic Ambiguity
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Identify Relations/ Matches Revealed By Platform Identify
Meta-Data Discrepancies Make Project Ontology Assumptions Gather
Project Data (ontology + qualitative) Identify Manual Matches
Modify Project Ontology Assumptions Project Mapping/Matching A
Hybrid Process Goals Needs Resources Commence Collaborative
Dialogue
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So Why Both A Manual And Automated Process? - Hybrid We dont
know what meta-data about projects is actually necessary in order
to drive collaboration Need an iterative process to learn what
works Project data needs to be authenticated Problem with
WiserEarth, for example Technology platform must be developed on
top of existing real world relationship ie. Facebook
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Collaborative Dialogue Process OK Community Helps to Drive
Collaboration 1. Make time and process commitment 2. Set up chat
spaces 3. Set up information spaces: wiki, Google group etc, 4.
Coordinate regular open collaboration sessions 5. Provide expert
facilitation Deploy Resources of OK Community Define Process
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Hierarchical Goals and Project Visibility
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Understanding Hierarchical Goal Structures !sup catalyzing
strategic confluence !sub1 1,000,000 projects on platform !sub1
100,000,000 people on platform !sub 2 build Openkollab strategic
confluence platform !sub 2 build community of practice !sub 3 build
team !sub 3 build project roadmaps !sub 3 identify subprojects T1T1
T2T2 T3T3 Hierarchical Goals are Temporally Sequenced and Force
Projects to Think in a Certain Way
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How Do You Make Projects Visible? Represent the Project in a
way that makes it visible OK.SUB.2.2: 'Developing a Technology
Platform to Support Catalyzing Strategic Confluence'. This would be
associated with the following project structure: Mission Goals
Leader Team Milestones Age Sex Height Interests Hobbies PROJECT
ONTOLOGYPERSONAL ONTOLOGY Note that Visible Personal Ontologies are
a recent phenomena. Why not Visible Project Ontologies?
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Rolling Out the OK Platform and Process Driving Collaboration
in Ecosystems
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Forestry Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Land Use Project 1
Project 2 Project 3 Oceans Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Climate
Change Generally connected via communications systems What Is An
Ecosystem?
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Climate Change Human Rights Meta Gov What are the points of
confluence? Connecting Ecosystems?
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Test for Ontology Alignment Via Platform Test for Ontology
Alignment Manually Identify Collaboration Opportunities Identify
Ecosystems Build Community Platform for Ecosystem Gather Project
Ontology Data Driving Collaboration in Ecosystems The Process
Commence Collaborative Dialogue Strategy: Develop Conference
Ecosystem Platform Service Offering i.e. target climate change
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The OpenKollab Model
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Organizational Structure Founders - OKco Active Members Members
Will have formal legal structure
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Issues We Are Working Through How do you balance an open
environment with the leadership requirement that is necessary to
drive projects? For-Profit or Not-for-Profit Should we stipulate
all profits be reinvested? What implication does this have for
equity/quasi-equity funders? How do we a compensate structure
pre-financing? How do we structure a compensation structure that
will serve to scale participation?
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OK Revenue Possibilities Conference Services Consulting
Software Development Software Productization
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The OK Community of Practice
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What is OK community of practice? Governed by common intention:
to drive collaboration Committed to learning together: what is
necessary to drive collaboration Committed to developing a common
linguistic framework Committed to developing an internal,
reputation based, economic system Committed to developing processes
and models to support collaboration Operate as an Open
Collaboration Space
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The Importance Of a Common Language Proper discussion/discourse
requires Shared Terms of Reference At this time there is no
standardized Collaboration Language Note, for example that a
semantic framework for social interaction has evolved; lol, lmao,
brb. The meaning of terms is contextual Baseball Domain: home-run,
triple-play Project Domain: Super-ordinate goal, project, intention
Mitigates Semantic Ambiguity Problem
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How Do You Develop a Common Language? Hybrid: Top-Down and
Bottom-Up approach Top Down: introduce set of terms and definitions
Bottom Up: allow community to collaborative modify terms and
definitions Formal Syntax: develop formal syntax ie. Tent
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The OK Reputation Based Economic System At least at the outset,
what is available for exchange is our time and labour. The return
is the garnering of reputation Reputation has currency in the real
world.
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OK Processes and Models
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OK Communications Structure Listserv IRC Chat Space
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Realize we dont need to kill each other Leaders realize we are
all alike are human Provides Real Time Experience of Each Other
Create Generation of Leaders Connected on OK Platform How OK can
help to end the Arab/Israeli Crisis! Conflict Perception of
Difference No Real Time Interaction No Direct Experience
Possibility of False Information AND Absence of Experience of
Similarity Note: most state sanctioned killing does not occur
within ones community Build OK Platform
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Organization Client Partner Support: Financing, Volunteers
Services Layer Service Delivery Layer Support Layer Enterprise
Ecosystems Needs/Resource Synergy An ecosystem is a system whose
members benefit from each other's participation via symbiotic
relationships. All organizations have other organizations that they
work with regularly. These organizations form a set of natural
relationships; an Ecosystem
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Community Formation Coordinated Action Collaboration