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+Collaborating Like a Hacker
+===========================
+
+Github provides great collaboration tools.  You can do a lot of great things without ever touching a command line, or git (or even knowing what git is).  Below we describe some very basic workflows.  There is a lot more great help available at [help.github.com](https://help.github.com/) -- especially the [Bootcamp](https://help.github.com/categories/54/articles) and [Collaborating](https://help.github.com/categories/63/articles) sections.  Note that many of these help articles _do_ expect you to use git on the command line.  But for simple workflows, you should not have to.
+
+Create a Document from Scratch
+------------------------------
+1. Press the "New repository" button
+2. Check the box to "Initialize this repository with a README"
+3. Visit http://prose.io/ to create and edit markdown files
+4. Authorize prose.io with your github account
+5. Click on the icon for your repository (it is normally at the top.
+6. Click "+New File" button
+7. Edit your file. Explore prose.io, it is very simple and elegant
+
+Fork a Repository
+-----------------
+
+The screenshot below is from <https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo>:
+
+![Fork a repository instructions](https://raw.github.com/harlantwood/The_Project/master/assets/images/Fork-a-repository-instructions.png)
+
+Delete a Repository
+-------------------
+1. Go to repository page on github
+2. Click the "Admin" tab
+3. Go to the bottom and click "Delete this repository"
+4. Enter the name of the repository when prompted
+

Conversation.to.Action-Pull.Platform.md

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+Starting with the idea of **:::Collaborating Like a Hacker:::** inspired by Harlan T Wood's well appreciated blog post: [What if we checked the commons into Github] (http://www.harlantwood.net/pub/What_if_We_Checked_the_Commons_into_Github/index.html)
+This repository is awaiting to be hosted by a collective account.
+
+Conversation-to-Action Pull Platform
+====================================
+
+A tool built for a purpose: enabling technology and information to get to those who need it, to become a global collective intelligence solution and governance space.
+
+Built collaboratively around the purposes and needs of communities of social practice, aggregating and integrating the ideas and existing codes of a community of techno practice. 
+
+Empowering a network of issues-related learning and collaborative environments leading to action. Its goal is to make open-ended conversations generative or 'productive' in terms of engagement, resources pulled and pooled, outputs and outcomes.
+
+Deployable on darknets and P2P distributed server environments.
+
+We need to multiply the generative potential of conversations around social objects that  attract individual intentions into collective effort through an emergent  platform which enables: 
+* Harvesting and productivity of conversations
+* Contextual linking of objects and push pull
+* Visualization & navigation in contextualized data
+* Social network communication channels enabling communication
+
+The platforms needs to be extremely adaptable in terms of design, needs to be built, tested and rebuilt in some sort of regenerative continuum.
+
+Sort of like a [MMORPG](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game) with mutltiple collaboration engines (cad-cam, programing languages, system-modeling architectures, etc, etc, etc) built into it.
+
+What is needed from the tool emerges readily when it is used in line with some embodied and meaningful purpose.
+
+## Harvesting & Making Conversations Productive
+
+We need meta-spaces that could serve multiple types of collaboration needs.
+
+We need conversations that are dynamic and ongoing and can adapt. (flow)
+
+We need to be able to start conversations with no structure and enable the structure to emerge.
+
+We need to go back and forth between the synchronous and the asynchronous
+
+We need conversations where we can go back and reflect – turn the asynchronicity in time & space in an opportunity for making new sense rather than diverging  (reflection)
+
+We need conversations that transition from topic exploration to deliberation
+
+We need an infinite cannevas, that can enable lots of things to take form, swarming system to co-create narratives at a fast pace, used -behind the scenes- to generate content: blog posts, video storyboards, books, venture startup plans...
+
+* Wikis don't respond to needs (no construction of discourse)
+* Blogs don't respond to needs (no synthesis/merging of argumentation) 
+* [Blog as a tip of a wiki iceberg] (http://communitywiki.org/en/BlogControlledByWiki)?
+
+### Overall Requirements  
+
+Share & learn
+
+Talk while doing, build as we talk
+
+Capture, harvest content of conversations in all multimedia forms.
+
+Enable queries, "How do I_______" (for tools, interpersonal strategies, vocabulary) with 'taylored' answers
+
+Make what we each have and the outputs visible and accessible
+
+Enable cross silo understanding (Pattern/link languages and protocols)
+
+Enable contextualization and cross-reference of data and content
+
+Contextualize interdependencies, convergences, divergences through visualization of linked data
+
+Enable figuring out what is ongoing. Help people see what is happening.  Clearly showing progress and impact, 'evolution in the making' (making aware through engagement)
+
+Host and channel the emergence of new patterns. (actionable insights)
+
+Search and navigate the adjacent possibles (exploration)
+
+Specify intents 
+* Express our current and future desired/preferred contexts in relation to our reality and visualized interdependencies
+* Synchronize intents with purposes, to let the world orient itself around our visions. Example [Move Commons] (http://movecommons.org/about/)
+
+Synchronize resources and needs to maximize potential and impact
+
+Pull people and resources around [social objects as ‘attractors’] (http://www.slideshare.net/jess3/the-world-of-social-objects) – 
+
+Push possibilities, match people and objects – Platform is people and conversation centric
+
+Create Contextualized Connections (revalue reap the potential of the hyperlink)
+* Ping things, concepts, people, data into a conversation (Pull Platform mechanism).
+* Point out objects that need work. Notify those that might be interested.
+* Ping from wherever you are within documents etc (rizzoma, Kune,  Hackpad) ideally via portable identities like email portability.
+* Link to context and follow from wherever you are "hook" (to people -response to-, conversations, posts –reference to-, data update etc)
+
+Pull related data from the web on ongoing basis
+
+Enable generative conversations to grow into something more comprehensive
+* Dispatching to where content needs to be processed
+* Processing of content and iteration: curation, learning, annotation,  evaluation, argumentation, decision, action – contextualized and cross  referenced) (debategraph, Kune)
+* Self discovery space, taking notes, adding on, modifying (sandbox)
+* Hands on modifying and scaling – fork, diff, merge. (re: open source - github)
+* Transition from [unstructured to structured] (http://www.communitywiki.org/en/StructureOfWikis) and reprocess the history into a structure.
+
+Enable Learning and discovery - Paying Attention, Doing, and Learning. 
+
+Broadcast to a larger audience for diffusion (push) or input (pull)
+
+Co-generation of narrative, collective authorship in multimedia (co-creation). Example [The exquisite forest] (http://www.exquisiteforest.com/)
+
+Make  the process seamless, fluid and transparent, as effortless as possible  in order to focus on the learning, interactions and sense making.  (integration of modules and protocols)
+
+Need infrastructure on which to build this
+Put on top structure, processes, protocols - organizing metaphors, narratives, enablers
+
+
+### References
+
+Visualization: How the mind works http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin/paradigm.html
+
+
+### Specific Features and possibilities
+
+**Framework - knowledege management system**
+
+* Tagging that allows allow for drill down hierarchies to form.
+
+  > Allows a file to be found through multiple different associative network without having to keep multiple copies of a file.
+
+* Syncing/Updating of files in different locations.
+
+  > Similar to above, allows a file to updated across many locations. Prevents the necessity of finding the perfect place for the file to be found.
+
+* The ability to create infinitely nested folder structures.
+
+  > Obviously, for organization of topic/sub.
+
+* Integration of folder structures with native file-systems
+
+  > Allows for more access and easier migration. ( Wheel-Chair Ramps)
+
+* Meta-Commenting System
+
+  > Comment on file without changing the file itself. Allows for conversation about what is being done to happen.
+
+* Multiple accounts working on a file at once.
+
+  > Obvious efficiency and collaboration purposes.
+
+* Easy indication who is making which changes to a file
+
+  > Obvious credential purposes.
+
+* Revision Histories
+
+  > Documentation of RAW data changes over-time. Can be used, for example, to do processes analysis.    
+
+* Embedding of files in other medium
+
+  > Distribution purposes
+
+* Cross-platform
+
+  > Does anything need to be said?
+
+
+**Pinging**
+
+A  right-click option in web documents that would insert popup comparison  tables to fill in (visible to others via a subtle tag, or upon a cursor  mouseover). The popup tables might be embedded, conditionally-visible  new SocialCompare tables that would let us see side by side comments,  alternative wordings, related diagrams – or whatever people wanted to  offer. (Mark Frazier)
+
+A  hashtag comparison table when creating content on socialNets that  would, sort of the way Quora suggest topics, let you know what hashtags  most people are following related to your subject. (Zaq)
+
+
+**Tagging and harvesting multimedia**
+
+* Interface  software to record our voices and send us all transcripts. Currently  > make an audio record of skype calls with (free) Callburner, or  video recording Skype calls with free Vodburner. Create transcripts from  Professional Edition of Dragon speech recognition software. Gizmo.
+
+* Combine video chat with a text box and a twitter backchannel
+
+* Printable record that can be reviewed with highlighters of different colors and  analyzed for discovering patterns of connection and meaning that were  not readily graspable during the exchange, thus allowing to discover  further layers of what has been trying to be communicated through us  (George Por)
+
+Make  an audio record of skype calls with Callburner which is free, and even  video recordings of skype video calls with free Vodburner. (Have them,  never used them, don’t know how good they are.) I imagine those digital  files could then be fed into the Professional Edition of Dragon speech  recognition software which can make text from digital audio files.
+

Core-Nexus.markdown

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+Luminous Organizational Cores
+=============================
+
+Team Level
+----------
+[Core Protocols](http://liveingreatness.com/files/core-protocols-3.03.html) or better
+
+Organization Level
+------------------
+[Holacracy](http://www.holacracy.org/sites/default/files/resources/holacracy_constitution_v3.0_0.pdf) or better
+
+Sharing Credit & Wealth
+-----------------------
+[Better Means](http://bettermeans.com/front/open_enterprise_governance_model.html) or better                   
+
+Global Abundance
+-----------------
+[Common Welfare Economy] (http://www.gemeinwohl-oekonomie.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CWE_20_points_summary.pdf) 
+
+[Global Brain] (http://trailmeme.com/trails/Global_MindBrain)
+Collaboration
+=============                       
+
+Content Format
+--------------
+[Markdown](http://whatismarkdown.com/) or better (see also: online [markdown to HTML converter](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus))
+
+Remixing Content: Fork/Diff/Merge
+---------------------------------
+[Github](https://help.github.com/) + [prose.io](http://prose.io/) (markdown editor) or better
+
+_(Future: [Software_Zero](http://enlightenedstructure.org/Software_Zero/) or better)_
+
+Diagrams
+--------
+[Ditta](http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/) (diagrams generated from ascii art) or better
+
+
+Project Management
+==================
+
+Agile Project Management Tools
+------------------------------
+[Pivotal Tracker](http://www.pivotaltracker.com/) (or perhaps [Planbox](http://www.planbox.com/)?) or better
+
+Search
+======
+
+Private Search
+--------------
+[Duck Duck Go](https://duckduckgo.com) or better
+
+Meta / Methodological
+=====================
+[Integral Methodological Pluralism](http://www.slideshare.net/timbomb/integral-methodological-pluralismkey) or better
+
+* * *
+
+This content is free and remixable under a
+<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons BY-SA License</a>.
+

ReadMe.markdown

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+Hi!  Welcome to _The Project_, which is what a few of us are calling the sum of the enlightened technology projects and next edge systems orbiting in our spheres. It is very early days in this repo! Come take a look and cocreate with us.
+
+Note that Github is designed for coders! Which is why we have a how-to on "[Collaborating Like a Hacker](The_Project/blob/master/Collaborating-Like-a-Hacker.markdown)", to train our communities in using this powerful technology, which powers much of the modern open source software movement. 
+
+For more inspiration and context, check out Harlan's post [Collaboratory Now](http://www.harlantwood.net/pub/Collaboratory_Now/index.html), and also [Clay Shirky's TED talk](http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html) on "how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens."

Streams-Masters-of-Shift.md

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+## Streams & Masters of the Shift
+
+### The list
+* Social Business- Muhammed Yunus
+* Social Capital Market development- Kevin Jones
+* Peer to Peer development - Michel Bauwens
+* Transnational Economics Communities- David de Ugarte
+* Open Sourced Ecological growth- Marcin Jakubowski
+* Collective Intelligence - Tom Atlee, George Pór
+* Mind Amplification / Self-Learning - Howard Rheingold
+* Process Arts / self-organization - Harrison Owen, Peggy Holman, David Bohm
+* Governance of the Commons - Elinor Ostrom, Lawrence Lessig
+* Otto Scharmer, Peter Senge, Peter Drucker
+* New Currency - Bernard Lietaer
+* User Innovation - Eric von Hippel 
+* Open Source Software - Richard Stallman, Eric S Raymond
+* Complexity - Murray Gell-Mann, W. Brian Arthur
+* Compassion - Karen Armstrong
+* Community - Peter Block
+* Memetics - Douglas Rushkoff, Robert Anton Wilson & Alan Watts
+* Systems / Augmentation - Buckminster Fuller, Doug Engelbart
+
+### Agregated resources
+* Tomi Astikaninen's [Settlers of the Shift](http://prezi.com/v8mgeywtjbj2/settlers-of-the-shift/) map
+* P2P Foundation's list of [P2P related settlers of the shift](http://p2pfoundation.net/Settlers_of_the_Shift) 
+* Helene Finidori's [Pearltree for Exploring Alternatives](http://www.pearltrees.com/t/team/id5509379)
+* Joe Brewer's [video review of books about cognitive science for social change](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlcfCzFOm1s&list=UUwKPwQpBtMxGAGS1QkMhvew&index=2&feature=plcp)
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