Mike Williams Log

Sun Nov 7, 2021

You mean colleges are transitioning, not closing? Seem to be more startups than closures - https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/09/23/colleges-closing-spoiler-alert-probably-not/

$32k/year - sounds like an investment. For us, perhaps the Open Source Panopticon would do - live feeds from workshop - feeds from classroom. The ultimate metric being clear: new products developed and published, new institutions created, etc. Towards distributed market substitution - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Distributed_Market_Substitution - and systems transformation.

We should go for the 50/50 with a 'college in trouble'. Or divergent thinkers at non-troubled colleges who are into program/business development and solving pressing world issues. Do you think we can find the latter?

For the college in trouble, the offer could be GI Bill funding. Jon Miller said that he thinks we would get 2000 applicants TODAY through GI Bill if we offered the program in open source ecology. Do you think we can do something here?

I like the idea of a nonprofit fund to solve pressing world issues. But it would be good if somehow we can inject greed motive into that, as there is very little ethical money around. Ie, what could the investor get out of it? My simple answer to that is financial independence by us developing model communities that the investor can live in - free of killing and stealing. Do you think people would buy that?

Publishing at You mean colleges are transitioning, not closing? Seem to be more startups than closures - https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/09/23/colleges-closing-spoiler-alert-probably-not/

$32k/year - sounds like an investment. For us, perhaps the Open Source Panopticon would do - live feeds from workshop - feeds from classroom. The ultimate metric being clear: new products developed and published, new institutions created, etc. Towards distributed market substitution - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Distributed_Market_Substitution - and systems transformation.

We should go for the 50/50 with a 'college in trouble'. Or divergent thinkers at non-troubled colleges who are into program/business development and solving pressing world issues. Do you think we can find the latter?

For the college in trouble, the offer could be GI Bill funding. Jon Miller said that he thinks we would get 2000 applicants TODAY through GI Bill if we offered the program in open source ecology. Do you think we can do something here?

I like the idea of a nonprofit fund to solve pressing world issues. But it would be good if somehow we can inject greed motive into that, as there is very little ethical money around. Ie, what could the investor get out of it? My simple answer to that is financial independence by us developing model communities that the investor can live in - free of killing and stealing. Do you think people would buy that?