To: A <wrench.wench@yahoo.com>, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>,
Caleb Pritchard <cpritchard2001@gmail.com>, felipefarley@yahoo.com
Hi, A-
Thanks for getting in touch. We'd love to have you on board, and I imagine your particular experience as a small businessman will be of assistance to the project. In fact, even your knowledge of bikes could have specific applications, as while we wait for the software to be completed and thus our two networks to be established, we are working on a couple of tasks, one of which is our Africa Development Program. This sub-project is intended in part as an experiment and demonstration whereby we can do a sort of test run of the dynamics that arise in online task collaboration, and learn a bit about what approaches work, what obstacles might arise, etc. We also generally intend Project PM to be entirely dynamic in terms of its objectives, which is to say we'll be adding other disparate projects such as these as times goes on.
One of our participants, a patent lawyer named Felipe Farley, has come up with the idea of identifying simple and thus easily-applied engineering methods - contraptions, I suppose - and then distributing knowledge of such things to villages in such a way as to ensure that the knowledge spreads to those who are willing and able to make use of it. I understand that there are various methods of constructing bicycles with readily-available materials and relatively few skills; perhaps you could evaluate any such methods for us and figure out if they might be worth pursuing as something to promote to aspiring tradespeople. Moreover, we have a range of other possible strategies to pursue as well as general questions regarding the best way to set up and operate the charity, and then of course we are also making plans regarding how we might go about our more central tasks of media reform and establishing unconventional, effective online collaborative enterprises.
I am sending you an invitation to two shared Google Docs that we are currently using to plan aspects of the Africa Development Program; take a look and provide any insight you may have into what we're discussing or suggest new directions altogether if you'd like. I've cc'd Farley as well as our participant administrators Clark Robinson and Caleb Pritchard; you might e-mail Farley and see what small-scale craft and engineering projects he has in mind already and proceed from there. Otherwise, contribute as you see fit, and feel free to call or e-mail me if you have anything you'd like to discuss.
Of course, you remain anonymous or you may use your real name without it being associated with Little Green Footballs; I understand your aversion to Johnson's stalkers, as I have to deal with them quite a bit myself.
I am a reasonably clever and honest person with an interest in approaching
fundamental problems in a manner thats designed to take best advantage
of a vastly different environment than that which existed just two
decades ago. Also good with the cut-n-paste. I'm pretty much an individual of no particular accomplishments but plenty of will and
erudition, except maybe short in the erudition department. I comment on littlegreenfootballs as wrenchwench, so you can be the judge to some extent.
I have a bicycle shop in New Mexico that I run all by myself, so I do have skills, I just don't know whether they have any value to this project.
If I need to become not anonymous, I can do that, but not if the real me becomes associated with the anonymous me of LGF. You know about Charles's stalkers. And Charles knows who I am. Nobody would have any reason to stalk me, but I stay paranoid anyway. It's worked so far.