Please see this very inspiring Radio 4 program linked below, whilst it is still available. It explains how open source (allowing everyone to have an equal input in the creation of thing), is so very effective. The program discusses the need for a common goal to concentrate the efforts of people involved in the process; something Simpol already has in it’s Founding Declaration. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kp806
Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate ‘open source’ computer software. Much has been said about the likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about how thousands of programmers scattered around the world collaborate in a ‘virtual anthill’ to create products that rival more commercial offerings. Gerry finds out how it is done and shows how its ethos is being applied to other kinds of business, with some startling results.
Simpol’s Founding Declaration-
http://simpol.org.uk/wp-content/download/Simpol-Founding-Declaration.pdf
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Barnaby Flynn;
This is EXCELLENT material! It could NOT be more relevant today as
COMPLEXITY, (NOT COMPLICATED), CHAOS, and SELF ORGANIZING SYSTEMS……are
at the VERY FOREFRONT in allowing stability while suspended within an environment or landscape of UNPREDICTABILITY!
In these type systems, NET WORKING IS ALL IMPORTANT! in other words,
the synergistic connections BETWEEN ALL THE PARTS, works to create the
whole, (this is how consciousness is arrived at in the brain, only the
connecting parts are brain cells themselves, not individual people) or
WORKS TO CREATE A WHOLE which has a higher REALITY and CONSCIOUSNESS that is GREATER than
AND totally independent of any one of it’s parts! These types of SYSTEMS or entities referred to as “ZERO POINT” FORCE FIELDS OF INFLUENCE and include such things as light, gravity, electrical fields, and all magnetic fields including Earth’s magnetic field
This open source networking has been noticed for some time now, and has been
used for some time to solve all types of soft ware problems. “Where all eyeballs are
opened,(connected is a synergistic way) no flaw is hidden, or all BUGS are visible”
In this type of system, “A single individual player controls ALMOST
NOTHING….BUT…IT INFLUENCES ALMOST EVERYTHING!”
In these systems. TIME gets it’s proper respect! We say only TIME WILL
TELL! Tell what?
Wrong from Right! Many people have gone to their graves believing they have
instilled their personal interpretations upon the masses and their
EVOVLEMENT, only to have, eventually, their own off spring, or TIME, raise up and
declare their fore fathers WRONG!
Also, it takes TIME to sort out the SYNERGISTIC CONNECTIONS, from THE
DESTRUCTIVE ONE’S! This is how come ANNUALIZATION OF FOOD PRODUCTION has failed societies in the past, and is destined to fail in the future!
Why?
It continually BREAKS UP THESE TIME PROVEN SYNERGISTIC CONNECTIONS, this acts to create a perfect womb from which PESTS ARE BORN ! Although one can place all the diverse parts back into the fields, ONE CANNOT RESTORE THE PROPER CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE MILLIONS OF PARTS! Only TIME can do this!!!! THAT’S why, annualization CREATES PESTS…PESTS WEEDS, SEEDS, ANIMALS, BIRDS,
VIRUSES, BACTERIA, INSECTS, and even PEST CORPORATIONS with their life toxic IDEAS, and toxic chemicals to kill these people designed PESTS!!!
Perennialization, preserving the TIME proven connections was NATURE’S design. It was arrogant, near sighted people, that failed to see the long term cost on health and the environment by their energy efficient driven and near (blind sided) sighted design of food production or ANNUALIZATION. One of the leading Farm Magazines, which is now part of the alliance to control all food production, actually had a small article on the benefits of PERENNIALIZATION of food production and that it might be the wave of the future.
Imagine that!
If one were to scoop out a bunch of ants from an ant hill, within hours, the
ratio of worker, foragers, and soldier ants would once again be restored
WITHOUT the use of a higher central head or power!!! This type of system is what the “Open Source” supports! And to me, this is what SIMPOL has been about from it’s very beginnings!!! It focuses upon the NETWORKING, or SYNERGISTIC CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ALL THE DIVERSE PARTS and the FORCE FIELD OF INFLUENCE it creates within it’s self!
Good work!
Jerold Hubbard, USA, Miner of Top Soil and Fresh Water, Creator of Pests,… ALIAS… Grass Roots Farmer
The beginning of wisdom is to call something by it’s right name!