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Black Duck Software launches open-source service
Black Duck Software launches open-source service05/14/2004 09:15 AM Startup Black Duck Software Inc. will update its product line next
week with two new products designed to help companies better manage
their use of open-source software.
Black Duck Code Services Take Flight
Black Duck Code Services Take Flight05/18/2004 06:20 PM The service from Black Duck Software provides open-source license
validation and management, code detection, software registry,
training, consulting and support.
Black Duck debuts IP compliance software
Black Duck debuts IP compliance software03/28/2005 10:00 AM Black Duck Software on Monday rolled out an on-demand service that
allows developers and due diligence teams to examine software projects
for open source code in order to make sure their licensing obligations
are being met.
Black Duck debuts IP compliance software (InfoWorld)
Black Duck debuts IP compliance software (InfoWorld)03/28/2005 10:13 AM InfoWorld - Black Duck Software on Monday rolled out an on-demand
service that allows developers and due diligence teams to examine
software projects for open source code in order to make sure their
licensing obligations are being met.
Black Duck Hunts Open Source's Legal Pitfalls01/17/2004 10:53 PM The startup prepares products to address intellectual-property
problems in code before they can become legal troubles.
Black Duck tool aims to bolster software licensing compliance
Black Duck tool aims to bolster software licensing compliance03/28/2005 06:48 PM Black Duck Software has unveiled a hosted, on-demand service so
companies that use open-source and proprietary software side by side
can check license compliance, intellectual property rights and
development integrity.
Secret Service Guards Mother Duck, Eggs (AP)
Secret Service Guards Mother Duck, Eggs (AP)04/08/2005 11:58 AM AP - The Secret Service, which has the job of guarding the president
and other dignitaries, now has a new temporary duty — protecting
a mother duck and her nine eggs.
Monty Python Black Knight model rocket06/24/2004 07:37 PM Stefan sez: "Xtreeem rocket nerd
Bob Fortune builds a flying model of the luckless, limbless Black
Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Link
World’s First Service Based Computing Model is Launched - SBC Revolutionizes Service Delivery, End-user Device Management, and Offers Simplicity for Everyone
ELAN™ Expands VIA!®dj Family to Three Products and Enchances Current Model to Include iPod Download, 20x Rip Speed, and a Host of Additional New Features
My article
last month proposing Model
Intentional Communities (MICs)
as a means of showing young people a better, more natural way to live
provoked a strong and positive response. Many readers commented on how
important it is to teach by showing
(or better yet, by letting young people experiment themselves with
some
intelligent, structured but light-handed facilitation) rather than by
telling. So I'm encouraged to
go on to the next step to try to assess how we can (and should) create
some MICs.
First, some definitions: An Intentional Community (IC)
is an autonomous, self-managed, democratic association of people with
shared social, cultural and economic intentions and aspirations. A
Model Intentional Community
is an Intentional Community that is:
exemplary -- it works well, and represents the best of
what ICs with similar focus and talents have to
offer
egalitarian -- it is non-hierarchical, has no dominant
leader, and is free of the coercive characteristics that can cause
healthy communities to decline into cults
replicable -- other
successful ICs could be created by following its
example
educational -- by spending time in it, you can learn a
great deal, including how and why it is successful
responsible
and respectful -- there is no reason why ICs
can't be selfish or arrogant, but I think we'd want the models we show
our young people to be communities where members took responsible for,
and were respectful of, the welfare of other members and their
neighbourhoods
sustainable -- it's not dependent on the
largesse of outsiders, or on subsidies or low commodity
prices
diverse -- substantially different in focus, style,
and/or structure from the other MICs
There is no cookie-cutter mechanism for creating ICs, but in reviewing
the various websites of successful ICs and the umbrella organizations
like the FIC, the FEC, and
the CCS
and CCA
here in Canada (cooperatives are somewhat different from ICs, but they
share some important principles of formation), you can identify at
least a skeleton formation process, which I've diagrammed above. I
wouldn't presume to say exactly how to accomplish each of these steps (ask me again
when I've set one or two up), but the steps are:
Find Members:
Select the people who you would love to have in your community, and
live and/or work with. Just as in any other activity that involves
social networking, this is by far the hardest step. We desperately
need
better social networking tools and processes.
Set Intentions & Principles:
Collectively, the members decide what the objectives of the community
will be, and what principles it will live by. These may include
principles that define its responsibilities and values, how new
members
are admitted, a size limit for the community, how resources will be
owned and 'profits' distributed, the decision-making process, required
contribution and participation from members, and many others. Like the
membership itself, these principles may be fluid, at least until the
community has been operating for awhile.
Design the Community: Now
collaboratively the members design what the community will look like
and how it will operate.
Obtain Needed Resources: Acquire what the community
needs to achieve its intentions
Create the Community: Together, make
it happen.
Connect & Outreach:
Connect with other communities, with the outside, and with schools and
other organizations and people looking for models of a better way to
live. This is the step that too many communities, fearing
contamination
or destruction by contact with the rest of the terrible world, so
often
omit. We all need each other. Isolation deprives the communities of
some of the benefits of technology, innovation and civilization, and
deprives the rest of the world of much-needed learning about living
alternatives.
If you have set up, or belong to, an IC, please share with us what
you've learned about the process. I've made arrangements to visit a
local IC just north of where I live later this month, and I'll report
what I learn after they show me around. The more I find out about ICs,
the more attracted I am to the concept. And what's interesting is that
they seem to have figured out the principles of Natural Enterprise as well, by trial and
error, so I'm going to feature some of their stories in my upcoming
book.
So suppose a bunch of us built a set of MICs with varied intents and
specialties. We might categorize them in some way to reflect their
diversity and their principal focus, for example:
Inventors -- ICs focused on innovation and development,
perhaps applying lessons from nature to invent products and processes
that do more with less
Fabricators -- ICs focused on 'ingeneering' and
manufacturing durable, customized, recyclable products
Carriers -- ICs focused on distribution of products
of
other ICs to customers, just in time, and including recycling and
returning all materials used, cleanly, back to the
Earth
Menders -- ICs focused on preventative maintenance and
repair of people (health and spiritual wellness) and the things they
use
Scientists -- ICs focused on scientific discovery,
and
development of technology and biotechnology drawing on those
discoveries, that will allow us to live well with smaller ecological
footprints
Artists -- ICs focused on arts & entertainment,
whose members portray for other MICs the world as it is, was, and
could be
Players
-- ICs focused on sports & recreation, exemplifying and teaching
the value of physical prowess, collaboration and play
Designers -- ICs focused on cooking, fashion and
other design, making intelligent and creative use of natural
ingredients
Teachers -- ICs focused on philosophy, education and
the social sciences, and the dissemination of knowledge
Nomads – ICs focused on travel and continuous
learning
These would not be exclusive specialties, of course. Each community
would need some expertise in the other areas, and all
communities would be self-sufficient in growing their own food and
producing their own clean, renewable energy. And people in each
community would doubtless have hobbies outside their MIC's focus. But
having models that fell into each of these diverse types would provide
the perfect basis for showing
young people the diversity of opportunity, work focus and intellectual
and emotional pursuit that is open to them. Instead of four years
sitting in classes in high school, for example, students from 14 to 17
years of age could rotate through a couple of MICs of each of the
above
focuses, for, say, a month at a time, observing and trying things out
and contributing as much as possible, at the end of which they would
have acquired the kind of exposure, learning and experience that no
classroom could ever match. My bet would be that many, perhaps even
most, graduates of such a system would want to join one of the MICs
they had lived in, or would want to set up their own, with other
members of their graduating class and people they had met along the
way.
Who knows, we might even start a movement, launch a new, sustainable
economy, and create a new culture. Education, done correctly, can be
that powerful. But first we need to create these MICs, these new
dynamic 'educational institutions'. And that isn't going to be easy.
We have many myths about
nature.
Most of them are about 'wildness' -- savagery, hardship, suffering.
Most of our stories about nature are of the 'Man vs. Nature' variety,
about 'survival in the wild', as if that were some extraordinary
thing.
We build these myths to keep people from running away from our
well-meaning but damaged, terrible, unsustainable culture. Richard
Manning in Against the Grain
has just exploded another of the myths about our culture: He provides
a
compelling argument that the Great Wall of China, a work of staggering
and gruelling human labour visible with a telescope from the moon, was
not built, as we were told,
to keep the Northern hunter-gatherer cultures (the 'Mongol Hordes')
out, but rather to keep the
stooped, slave labour in the 'new' civilization culture's peasants
in. If you really believe
nature is savage, turn off the hysterical nature documentaries and
read Bernd Heinrich's Winter World,
about how, even in Northern winters, even the tiniest 'wild' animals
live joyful, carefree, comfortable lives. And then read David Abram's
Spell of the Sensuous to find
out how you, too, can reconnect with lovely, peaceful, easy, sustainable nature.
The myths we teach our impressionable children about nature, from
dragon fables to Old Yeller, are usually about nature's terror and the
need to defend and return back 'home' to our 'safe' civilization.
There
is an astonishing amount of animal cruelty in children's stories, and
it is an extremely predatory and desensitizing indoctrination
technique. We reinforce these dreadful lies about nature's savagery by
sending our children to under-supervised day-care operations called
Summer Camps, which, despite their locations and stated objectives,
are
not at all about nature, but rather deplorable and usually incompetent
immersion courses in social skills. At least the British are honest
enough to do this without pretext of it being a 'natural' experience:
Their social indoctrination is called Boarding School and occurs
principally indoors. Whatever its intention, the principal effect of
Summer Camp is to untether children from their parents' protection and
their need for privacy, and force them to 'get along' with others,
find
their place in the social pecking order of their 'peers'. For the shy,
the weak, the uncoordinated, the physically and emotionally scarred
(and that's most children) it
can be living hell. For psychopathic children and predatory adults,
its
lack of supervision provides the ideal environment for honing their
manipulation skills on unprotected and vulnerable victims. Whatever
this may be, it is certainly no way to introduce a child to
nature.
Even psychopathic adults use the 'natural experience' cover to prey
upon weaker adults. This activity was most famously depicted in the
film White Mile, where the
aggressive company CEO (played by Alan Alda) bullies younger staff who
want to 'get ahead' to go on a 'character-building' white-water
rafting
trip where they are absolutely at his mercy, and where nature is set
up
as the straw-man enemy. This psychological brutality is also evident
in
many cults which use social isolation and deprivation in a
pseudo-'natural' setting to break down resistance to the cult leader's
propaganda. I recently witnessed a plane-load of teenagers returning
from a six-month 'working field trip' billeted in peasants' homes in
Paraguay -- these kids were raw with emotion and filled with horror and loathing
at the thought of returning 'home' and 'abandoning' the poor
Paraguayan
families who had opened their homes and hearts to them. Absolute
gut-wrenching culture shock. We humans are so easy to socially
recondition, so vulnerable to programming and re-programming! Our
psyches are so fragile that, especially with the young, we must take
great care not to tear them even by the simple act of exposing them to
new ideas. This is very dangerous stuff. Damn our adaptability.
Not surprising, then, that most people view nature with great fear, as
something to be conquered or survived. Most of us have no alternative
experience of it. And not surprising that so many of the well-intended
'communing with nature' alternative living experiments have collapsed
or been hijacked by psychopaths or megalomaniacs.
If we were to start with young
people, how could we expose them 'naturally' to nature:
Teaching them gently the Spell of
the Sensuous
without so unhinging their psyches that they would be incapable of
returning to civilized life and working within it, and without
exploiting their ideological vulnerability? (I know, I'm a hopeless
liberal -- I refuse to use propaganda to advance the cause).
Because if we don't show them nature, what possible hope is there for
our world when we can only romanticize (or demonize), idealize, try to imagine a natural way to
live and love and be? We learn
(especially as children) what we're shown, not what we're told.
There are almost no remaining models of natural life to show them, to
correct the entrenched, neolithic misperception of nature as something
brutal, savage, dangerous, frightening, threatening, hard, and apart. As James Taylor puts it in his song Gaia, we are taught, and left with
no alternative but to:
Turn away from your animal kind, Try to leave your body just to
live in your mind, Leave cold cruel Mother Earth behind --
GAIA, As if you were your own creation, As if you were the
chosen nation, And the world around you just a rude and dangerous
invasion.
I was at a conference a week ago with some of the most creative and
intelligent people on the face of the Earth, but when I talked to them
of the importance of wilderness, these mostly urban geniuses had no
idea what I was getting at -- they could not imagine what I meant.
I think we need to abandon the route of in-class nature documentaries
and the one-day (or six-month) field trips (and 'summer camps'), and
instead invent and design something completely new: Model Intentional Communities
that will give children and adults the opportunity to rediscover
nature, and our true nature, first hand. Just as we save endangered
species and try to build their populations back up in 'natural'
settings, we should try to recreate, and show, alternative human
cultures, so that people brought up in our monolithic and troubled
culture can be exposed to people living in balance with wilderness.
Not
in order to learn how to 'survive' it, but to learn how to be part of
and at peace with it. Glenn Parton talks about this in his essay Humans
-In-The-Wilderness.
I advocate the development of a
human lifestyle in which people live in small villages sparsely
scattered through a wilderness environment. Although this framework or
groundplan is borrowed from aboriginal peoples, it is far more
flexible
than has been thought. We can devolve or scale-down modern
civilization
to closely fit ancient land use patterns without returning to the
Stone
Age.
So we're not talking about a back-to-the-land commune that refuses to
use technology and shuns the 'civilized' world, but rather a series of
communities of, say, 100-150 people each, plus perhaps another 20
guests at any one time who would stay no longer than a month, and
bring
in new ideas and take away their learning of another way to live.
These
model communities would meld the best of do-more-with-less innovation
and technology (the Internet, solar energy, hydroponics etc.) with the
best of natural community (zero growth, 100% sustainability,
everything
recycled, no pollution, no hierarchy, LETS money, no private property
or separate 'family' dwellings etc.) These communities would 'use'
only
a tiny proportion of 'their' land for human purposes, leaving the rest
as wilderness for other creatures, for learning and exploration and
discovery and reflection and connection but not
exploitation. Their population density would vary depending on the
carrying capacity of the area, but on average would probably not
exceed
one person per four acres (a globally sustainable level). Everyone
would live as part of a self-sufficient, self-managed and
self-selected
community, and everyone would also live on the doorstep of wilderness.
The people would work only as hard as they needed to, to be
comfortable
-- perhaps an hour per day each (as primitive man did according to
revisionist history, and certainly enough in a modern egalitarian
society with the benefits of today's technology). The rest of the day
could be spent in leisure, in learning, in discovery, in making love
(possibly, as Glenn suggests, with more than one partner, at the
collective discretion of each community), in art, in writing or other
expression -- whatever each individual wanted to do. Members would be
free to travel, and through the Internet and communications media and
visitors there would be lots of interaction with other Model
Intentional Communities and with the 'outside world', but if they
stayed away too long they would be asked to give up their membership
in
the community.
What would be needed to make this work would be someone to donate the
land, without recourse or obligation, and some self-selection
mechanism
for determining who the members of the communities would be. Building
on a small standard set of inviolable principles to ensure
egalitarianism, no-growth, and wilderness protection, each community
could develop its own rules and code of conduct (or operate without
rules, if it so chose). It would probably take some time, and learning
from failure, before these model communities would stabilize and be
ready to accept visitors -- their only obligation to the civilized
world.
Now imagine a young person exposed to such a community for a month in
adolescence or high school. She would probably find it fun (certainly
more than classwork, anyway), charming, stimulating, but not appealing
enough to want to stay. But when she graduated and realized the
devil's
bargain of civilization -- the trade-off of ecocide and wage slavery
and emotional suffocation in return for 'financial security', she
might
well decide then to join an existing Model Intentional Community, or
start her own, spreading out and refusing to buy the crappy consumer
products and over-priced postage stamp building lots that drive the
current economy. In short, she, and many or most or all of her
similarly-exposed classmates, might walk away -- millions each year,
until diverse Model Intentional Communities flourish across the globe,
and the old economy, with no 'consumers' left to sustain it, crumbles
away, and with it the old politics and the old social rules and the
old
hierarchies and the old education systems, and a new culture that
values wilderness and well-being rises in its place.
That's my dream. It
cannot work, of course, in a world of six billion people, let alone
the
12-14 billion we are likely to see by the end of the century. But if
we
show people another
model now,
a better way to live, maybe it's not impossible to believe that people
will willingly, eagerly reduce their family sizes to no more than one
child per female adult, so that, within a couple of centuries, our
population is down below one billion and we can all
live this way. We could therefore do what early 'civilizing' cultures
like the Anasazi and Incans perhaps did, when, after experimenting
with
urban civilized culture, they suddenly and inexplicably walked away
from their cities and returned to a non-hierarchical and natural
life.
What a valuable education that could turn out to be.
If It Quacks Like a City Duck, It's a City Duck (Reuters)
If It Quacks Like a City Duck, It's a City Duck (Reuters)06/07/2004 10:40 AM Reuters - Ducks quack to each other in regional
dialects, with London ducks brashly drowning out their relaxed
rural relatives, a researcher in Britain said Friday.
AT&T expands its Net phone service
AT&T expands its Net phone service04/19/2004 01:55 PM AT&T's Net phone service is extended to California, which has
plenty of the broadband connections required for voice over Internet
Protocol services.
Wi-Fi Service Expands Its Reach
Wi-Fi Service Expands Its Reach07/26/2004 11:16 PM Wi-Fi, or high-speed wireless Internet access, often hard to find
until recently, is finally rolling into America's airports.
Mail Security Service Model Marches On (Ziff Davis)
Mail Security Service Model Marches On (Ziff Davis)06/24/2004 01:00 PM Ziff Davis - Opinion: A service approach to e-mail security has been a
good idea for a while, and it got a big boost recently with the
announcement of a partnership between IBM and MessageLabs.
AOL Canada Expands VOIP Service Nationwide06/05/2005 11:43 PM AOL Canada expanded its VOIP-based "TotalTalk" service to the entire
nation on Monday, offering the service to broadband customers of both
its service and others.
Intuit expands QuickBase collaboration service05/07/2004 12:11 PM The hosted service is picking up a growing number of business
functions and appealing to big companies as much as to small
businesses.
IDS Telcom Expands Local Residential Service in Florida
Apple Expands iTunes Music Service To Europe06/14/2004 09:23 PM Rivals in the fast-moving market of online music are bracing for
Apple's expected European launch Tuesday of its iTunes Music Store.
By Associated Press (via MyAppleMenu)
PrimeSyn Lab Inc. Expands Service Offering with Protein Analysis and Characterization
PrimeSyn Lab Inc. Expands Service Offering with Protein Analysis and Characterization04/01/2005 03:35 AM PrimeSyn Lab Inc., a recognized leader in the area of custom DNA
synthesis (oligonucleotides) and assay design, has expanded their
service offering to include protein analysis and their
characterization. These new services will help their customers to
determine the purity and sequences of proteins to meet regulatory
requirements. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2005]
Equinix Expands GigE Exchange Service to Southeast Asia
Equinix Expands GigE Exchange Service to Southeast Asia11/06/2003 07:24 PM Equinix IBX centers in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, the New York City
area, San Jose, Calif.'s Silicon Valley, Sydney and Tokyo, and is used
by Yahoo!, Google ...
Google updates mapping service and expands video search
MTI Expands Infrastructure and Service Offerings in Response to Surging Demand
MTI Expands Infrastructure and Service Offerings in Response to Surging Demand09/15/2004 03:57 AM MTI, an industry-leading provider of speech IVR hosting, services, and
solutions, announced today the expansion of its speech IVR technology
infrastructure and service offerings in response to surging customer
demand for flexible speech IVR outsourcing solutions. [PRWEB Sep 15,
2004]
iFreedom Communications expands their Global Connect Service Plans to include additional countries.
iFreedom Communications expands their Global Connect Service Plans to include additional countries.06/07/2004 02:05 PM iFreedom Communications, an emerging company in the Wireless Fidelity
(WiFi) and Voice over Internet Protocal (VoIP) industry, that provides
small business and residential customers flat rate calling, is pleased
to announce it has expanded their Global Connect Service plans to
include additional countries. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]
LocalToolbox Expands Affiliate Network as Internet Service Providers Begin to Discover The Power of
My article
last month proposing Model
Intentional Communities (MICs)
as a means of showing young people a better, more natural way to live
provoked a strong and positive response. Many readers commented on how
important it is to teach by showing
(or better yet, by letting young people experiment themselves with
some
intelligent, structured but light-handed facilitation) rather than by
telling. So I'm encouraged to
go on to the next step to try to assess how we can (and should) create
some MICs.
