To: Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Another thing discussed on last night's phone call was charitable collaboration, example: if the Project PM Africa project creates educational material (referencing Felipe Farley's concepts), PPM would partner with a charity with an established presence in villages who would in turn distribute the material. Barrett may want to elaborate. This was a new topic to me, I don't recall making any comments on it.
However, it did cause me to think further, after the call, that to the extent our charitable activities involve education, knowledge dissemination, network design to facilitate cooperation among charities, writing material for distribution, translation of written how-to resources, and other intellectual and communicative activities, that we need not adopt the model of a traditional charity (incorporate, raise funds, make grants) and the model could be more like Wikipedia or our blogger/journalist network.
Also, this may have some bearing on the liability issues that have surfaced, inasmuch as there is little liability potential in the latter models.
