Project PM
Subject: Project PM
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 5/15/10, 16:21
To: Shanna Carpenter <shanna@ted.com>

Setting aside your aversion to me, would you still be willing to participate in the Project PM governing network? Based on our earlier discussions, I imagine you'd have some helpful insights into some of the questions we're about to address with regards to the specifics of how the network should operate on a day-to-day basis. We've also begun work on the Africa Development Program by way of a collaborative Google Doc while we wait for the software to be finished, and it's going rather well so far, with several folks having taken some initiative; I'd assume you would know some people we could ask about little-known but effective sustainable development options by which we could make best use of our funds, or perhaps you yourself know of some such approach or otherwise could provide some input into the problem. You might also find the process itself interesting; even though we're not operating under the network schematic that's fundamental to the project, it's still a moderately unprecedented sort of effort due to how it's being run.

At any rate, you wouldn't have to talk to me in order to participate in this if you'd prefer not to; I would simply set you up on the shared Google docss and put you in touch with Mirna or Caleb Pritchard (cpritchard2001@gmail.com), whom I've put in charge of our participants to some extent. Or, if you can think of anyone with whom you're in contact by way of TED or whatever else and and who might be interested in getting involved, please do have them get in touch with me; I would greatly appreciate it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

I hope everything else is going well, and I know that you'll be successful in whatever it is you choose to do next.

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302