0oo P&L: -1424.3 (≃ -14387 USD)
0oo is a virtual space where humans organise research and development of ideas, and scale of innovations.
0oo is developed on a formula F(X)=Y, World(Actions)=Dream.
This project is the project to manage the development of this very site itself. Currently residing at the domain 0oo.li, it is an I/O system, that was created based on the aspirations explained in the background story ([1], [2]) (video) of this project, which describes the aspiration to help humanity collectively define and pursue goals, and in this way, create a friendly intelligence, which humanity itself is.
Hoped Outcomes
- [in 3-5 years] Half a billion people quit their jobs and live by solving problems directly in society, doing what they love.
- [in 7 years] Major challenges in health, education and work are addressed by innovative solutions suggested, attempted, and part of them further continually developed.
Previous versions of the project are open source and available on github.com/infamily.
Here's a one-pager, describing the project from a different perspective, with one of the possible paths to scale.
Leadership:
Contributors:
- Aliev A. (back-end software engineer), made what's seen on infamily/infinity1.0 - first version.
- Artem K. (front-end software engineer, made what's seen on infamily/infinity-reactjs)
Partners.
- WeFindX Foundation [Ireland] ( https://wefindx.org )
- GlobalMindShare NPO [U.S.] ( http://www.globalmindshare.org )
- Dimension Foundation [China] ( https://dimension.im )
Friends. - Foresight Institute (https://foresight.org)
How to get goal-aligned interest groups of visionaries, regulators, inventors, doers+financiers to come to "Zero to Infinity" (0oo.li) from diverse world's economic blocs to form a vibrant community that helps transparently decide the destiny of world's capital flows to realize our mission, helping create "the world where everything could exist"?
How to approach investment relationships into our project and community, so that we have balance between investors from different global interest groups, so that we are not dis-proportionally involved with any single economic bloc or interest group, or intelligence alliance, and function more like a mediator?
How can homepage encourage new users to see what the platform is for? (Feedback from 6 people about them feeling overloaded). How can Dream=World(Actions) aka Y=F(X) be more obvious for newbies?
- [-] Write late New Years greetings to friends, inviting to join.
- [-] Also, start systematically inviting people with interests in 0oo topics.
- [-] Finalize 0oo.li/membership , abilities to register customize project url, user and members can set their real name as verified if they want.
Made a short explanation video ⇡ on buying mode on 0oo market, and optionality of buying for transfer of money, or for coownership of results.
2 hours of designing. Some notes:
A few notes: 1. I kept the color palette similar to what is already being used but I just made the colors more trendy and friendly. 2. Added a header that gives an intro to zero to infinity. 3. I added contextual subheading to each type of information (project, questions, ideas) 4. Got rid of what I felt was unnecessary info or things that aren't usable yet. 5. The color palette contains a dark color for body type and a light color for header type. 6. Let me know if you'd like details on font selection. 7. Also made a logo that has a bit more storytelling, and character.
Wrote a piece on how 0oo connects to Living Systems principles defined by a thought leader Carol Sanford and an idea of Regeneration that she promotes in the world.
Improved loading speed, by adding .has_math
to all content types, allowing to know, when to load MathJax, making pages that do not require math support load faster. Also, enabled gzip compression (should have done long ago).
The page 0oo.li/data now provides database download with a comprehensive description of the tables. Currently added Lithuanian, English, Chinese descriptions.
To make the new visitors understand our directions better, and discover something related to what we do, I started the "External links" section. Note: I tried to make those links be content-rich, mostly not organization pages.
So, we can invite a little more people, without fear that site would slow down because of blocking nature of SQLite. Now, we are on PostgreSQL. However, writes could be faster. Should I move to a new machine? :)
- [+] Create likes for comments.
- [] Write New Years greetings to friends, inviting to join.
- [+] Migrate SQLite to non-blocking PostgreSQL.
- [+] Add links to related community resources (sidebar).
Postponed:
- [] Write New Years greetings to friends, inviting to join.
- [-] Simplify results declaration form. ("like: Summary, Details, URL, Cost (rename to Hours), Currency (rename to HUR as default) [Ruta].
- [-] Make a self-intro video for investors network. For making friends with investor community that would invest into 0oo projects, partner.
- [-] Design member cards and join page.
These votes were all for different comment models. There are a number of things still desired for future:
- Fix the bug of heart color state management after adding or changing vote, then hovering over options.
- The comment should react immediately, without loader.
- Ruta's suggestion about question mark approach.
However, for now, can check out video in the link, how the votes they work.
- [+] Finish the codes for content types. ("making world understandable" side of 0oo mission)
- [+] Add "Scoreboard" views for Questions, Ideas, Projects.
- [+] Order by score and number by default, and provide
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option to look the latest activity. - [+] Add challenges feature for projects suggested by [Ruta].
This is all needed for longer term goals to enable public works towards our mission, that involes involving 3 types of communities -- visionaries, inventors and doers+investors.
Added the operations and conversations histories on the home page, so it is possible to review past comments and works in sequence.
Added light color-coding to listings under questions, ideas, projects, to distinguish the content types. See video link ⇡ for details.
Adding math formulas is now possible, like so: $$f(x)={\frac {1}{\sigma {\sqrt {2\pi }}}}e^{-{\frac {1}{2}}\left({\frac {x-\mu }{\sigma }}\right)^{2}}$$ The Markdown syntax has been supported on 0oo for a long time, but there were problems with them in translations. Fixed both of these issues.
Just finished the feature suggested by my brother -- basically, problem was that people, who just want to keep up with some single particular topic, had no option to do that. Now they do. :) Click on the title to see result demo. Perhaps it'll make this place a little more useful for casual visitors.
Added support for flexible way for projects to register their contributions coming over various channels, so as to enable public tracking of multi-stakeholder, multi-ledger, multi-currency projects. (subtasks log)
Created a community reader at 0oo.li/io, so we can read external sources in a form that makes it easy organize and reshare to 0oo for deliberation.
For the first time user to understand what's going on, had modified /welcome page, for it to more clear, styled add Question/Idea/Project buttons and search fields in homepage.
Wrote and published a paper (pre-print), named "Big Picture for Everyone: The relationship between the equation model and base vectors for mapping human semantic space."
For purpose of the market, i.e., what's currently on 0oo.li/i0 . That is, because the interface of the market is radically different, and would be the priority index for many "normal" people, who just want to find people, companies and products. So, it merits a convenient direct access point.
Created a kind of shares of this project, that people can order, to become a part of the 0oo.li project.
These shares would provide certain rights and responsibilities, and entail a particular relationship ("membership") with the people within the 0oo, as the 0oo is geared to become "a community as a product" type of project.
What kind of community are we?
(answer to be drafted in a document)
If you feel like you would be part of such a community, get a share to support its creation.
2 days, approx 16 hours at 50$/hr.
human time, (2 work days)
human hours
human hours
Mostly 14 x 50 human hours
14 human hours @ say 50 eur/hr.
[ruta], wouldn't we want to have more public discussion about the project itself right here? :)
[Mindey], yes! we get a lot of feedback these days, so worth starting to share ideas for product features and milestones here.
A designer: "Schools would be most suitable IMO. It would teach young people to communicate with each other and express their thoughts."
A business executive: "My true passion is food. I used to make shoes for vegans and vegetarians. I used to use plastic type of leather for shoe making. Now, no ones knows how to make shoes anymore!"
"You know, our goal is to collect procedural knowledge on how things were made. Next time you want to open a shoe factory, you can do so, because you know how people did it in the past," I said.
An accountant professional: "I have lots of problems. Can I try? Some for my business, some personal ones. My family member has a disability so we have to approach problems differently."
"I agree, that's why conversation is important. We focus on comment based problem solving," I said.
An accountant professional: "So, how does it work? You have a problem, then think about a solution, project, milestones and tasks, you say. With our business, the hardest thing is implementation."
"I agree, what people usually lack is resources - human capital, financial capital or knowledge. People with skills, know-how or money. On a daily basis it can be hard to find the right people. Let's say I want to make education better, so I want to connect with teachers. How do I find them? I need to go to schools, look for online forums. It takes time to make friends. It's easier with our platform, you already have all the people, together, in one place. I don't need to look for people myself, content is what connects us. I don't need to look for teachers because teachers are there talking about problems they care about," I said.
A technical executive: "You have a tool to solve problems... What problems?"
"Any. Personal or global. Personal, let's say you want to quit your job and start your own business. You'll spend days, weeks, months, sometimes years talking to your friends and family about your problem, but quite often you won't do anything about it and stay where you are -- at the problem mode. The same applies for global problems. Let's say you are annoyed by seeing rubbish on the street. You keep complaining to your friends, but don't do anything to improve situation. With Infinity, you get a structure to move away from the problem and take action to get what you want," I said.
Now we have the essential features: 1) knowledge framework, 2) true multilinguality, 3) credit system.
Hi
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[Eimantas] Hi, welcome to try out our updated site ;) Btw., how it is going with Crrency?
Btw., regarding the possible ways for getting return on investment into Infinity:
The graph above, currently is not representative of the project as a whole. However, I will try to make it such some time soon. The problem with evaluating the vaue of the Infinity project, is that it has the potential to affect diverse fields. We're talking millions of startup companies to be created via Infinity project.
Did you realize that people can actually stay anonymous while using infty? For discussions, I think this is a good thing. It is possible to register a free GitHub account, and to register with GitHub, a person only needs an e-mail. There had been an attempt on Citizendium to use real-name-policy, but Wikipedia seem to do just fine with anonymous authors... [ruta], [aliev]
One idea from the past by [aliev]: if a comment looks like a milestone, or a task, we should make it possible to convert it into it.
Guys, I was thinking how to make it easier for people to share on infty.
People have thoughtful discussions over email. We have time to think about what we want to say over email because we're not forced to respond just like we're over real-time chat. Why not make it easy to add such email conversations to infty by allowing people to cc ideas@infty.xyz ? This way people wouldn't need to leave a space where they have conversations but they could still preserve the knowledge on infty, and share it.
(x.ai works similarly, you just cc an AI)
[Mindey] [aliev] [george]
[ruta] to be able to share a random e-mail conversation on infty just cc-ing it to our e-mail address would require the ability to parse, which part of e-mail describes problem, which describes idea, etc. within a bunch of e-mails forwarded, and one email may have many ideas, and many problems, so, random e-mail to ideas@infty.xyz - and infty automatically sorts out what is the problem, what is the idea, etc? If we had this capability, why wouldn't we just throw any information from the web at it, and let it automatically figure this out? :) (I don't say we won't be able to do this in the near future, but not in the nearEST.)
As for human-assisted interaction, I think it is easier. E.g., I am thinking, how to write my ideas in my wiki, and just mark them up with some syntax, e.g., {:post it on infty|this is the content:}, so that my wiki would use infty API to post it for me.
So, we could support special tags, that people who write e-mails could use it when they forward e-mails to ideas@infty.xyz, and then, if they are really users of infty, and their e-mail is coming from expected sender, we could create content item(s) based on it.
[aliev], [ruta], long time ;) Are we still getting notifications?
Consulted ourselves {0.2} hours ;) {?0.1} And video: {0.3}: https://mindey.com/shots/0db4b367aef6eb779d3e13135-infty.mp4.
I think this project is interesting one in there.
i have edited my comment.
I spent {3} :), and expect it will take another {?0.5}.
Hey, guys! So, after a little long time, Infinity is in a fresh new reworked version, and on a new domain inf.li. Feel free to comment and ask questions. :)
Apparently, that single-page application didn't work out very well. Issues are numerous. For one thing -- someone who just wants to share a single page with someone, makes them download a whole app, just to show a single page.
So, now, finally 2020, I have decided to try to rework it in plain Django, right here, on 0oo.li, without any additional JavaScript. ^__^ Let's see how it goes~
Btw., so, I'm still considering, where to put the backlog. Maybe it should be on whatever we use, like, e.g., I use Dynalist. Or, if we use GitHub's issues, it would be nice to put day-summaries here as task results.
Appears like a lot of content needs to be cleaned up, or [marked-for-deletion].
Among the todo items, is improving the rendering of the Markdown. Currently line breaking doesn't work as expected, sorry for that. Will fix it. Maybe let me write here github.com/infamily/homebase... Or, better use Dynalist? Actually look at the "Bug report" on the left.
And here are the tasks planned out for tomorrow, at least from my side :) I feel like I need friends who would like to become administrators.
How about making a Telegram bot that posts an Idea, Project, Category or even a Comment to any of existing Ideas, Projects, Categories without me going to my browser? It would save me time on mobile for sure..
// How about making a Telegram bot that posts an Idea, ..., or even a Comment without me going to my browser? It would save me time on mobile for sure..
I think it would make most sense to have a Telegram bot for each Category, Idea, Project, and so that comments posted in them would automatically be synchronized with autogenerated Telegram channel for the topic.
However, that would mean creating a new Idea would have to be like creating a new Telegram channel. This could be done by Telegram API. However, that kind of bot would have to automatically create new users on Homebase, using usernames of Telegram users, and do something sane when there are multiple users with same usernames, basically generate accounts on Homebase. The recipie to automate creation of group is:
And, I think this would not make sense by default, only perhaps to be customly enabled for certain ideas, when the conversation size reaches some point.
So, now, we're starting with actual project's sharing, sharing of it with people in problem domains, to get people solve problems together.
0oo meaning: from zero to infinity ?
// 0oo meaning: from zero to infinity ?
Yeah, who said we should be doing 0 -> 1, if we can do 0 -> ∞? Those who do 0 -> 1, usually don't get the benefit of scaling, and stay poor. Zero-To-Infinity, means a focus -- both to create things that didn't exist before, scaling it. :)
At this point, I think in the exchange section, it would be strategically advantageous to focus on trade of tools and equipment that empowers people to make and scale in markets, because these things are what creates value in societies.
For example, trading of power tools, industrial equipment, like mining equipment, farming tools, medical tools and equipment, laboratory equipment, mass production equipment, chip manufacturing equipment, etc., -- these are the transformers and enablers, that make modern life possible. They are what will eventually help understand the know-how graph.
Trade focus: - industrial equipment and materials, - medical equipment and materials, - lab equipment and materials.
Thinking of the further features:
For general user: great value is in the ability to immediately contact many bright minds for feedback to your well-crafted message. We already have some people on Telegram, that we can simply invite to a Zoom meeting, and share about the overall notifications business (namely, that once someone will publish, they will get notified on Telegram, and are invited to provide feedback to the posted item.). So, while we had invited people already to the Telegram channels, they are currently not informed about this mechanics, and what they have to do once they get notification about a new topic on 0oo. We should therefore organize Zoom meetings to start this process.
For researchers, is the full database (e.g., SQLite) download (or just equivalently API serializers with downloader).
Thinking -- whenever dealing with currencies on 0oo, it's think of doing so like making friends with the people who issue those currencies. Economies are relationships...
Thinking -- when importing data about production, to connect actual manufacturers directly with the market, not via distributors, but via Homebase :)
Yeah, we need open and transparent direct trade and product exchange.
Focusing on equipment and materials... would answer most questions about know-how...
Thinking, for the ideas, it would make sense to connect with Ethereum via Metamask, to optionally sign innovations as ERC721 tokens...
I feel that I can see some ideas and information, but I don’t understand the feeling of what is going on.
感觉能看到一些思路和信息, 就是看不大明白咋回事咋操作的感觉,
// I feel that I can see some ideas and information, but I don’t understand the feeling of what is going on,
In fact, in this way, the home page acts as a kind of "inbox". Therefore, if you comment on some past ideas, you will see that there are unfinished topics on the home page. How do you see it? It's because there are new comments that haven't been read in black.
Usually, you can check once a week to see if there are any new and interesting contents, or subscribe to RSS. Other descriptions are in /about.
We don't have a description video in Chinese yet. Ready to make one :) Then, may you need a function to subscribe to comments?
// 感觉能看到一些思路和信息, 就是看不大明白咋回事咋操作的感觉,
其实,就这样,首页作为一种像“收件箱”的角色。所以,如果评论在一些过去的想法,大家会看见有在首页的没看完的话题。怎么看见?就是因为有新没有看过的评论的帖子成为黑色字体。
平时,你可以一周一次来看看,有没有什么新的有意思的内容,也可以订阅RSS。另外的描述都在/about里面。
我们还没有中文的描述视频。准备做一个:)然后,有可能需要一个订阅评论的功能吧?
Now, I'm thinking, that the /products section of 0oo could work a bit like CraigList, but supporting people's own payment methods, or tokens of approval of payments.
A few thoughts on time banking: _ "Money would then be defined as 'uncompensated hours' - public debt to a person, which it covers by giving the right to buy the results of other projects for them ..." _
[video] (https://wiki.mindey.com/shared/shots/301ea6e53d99043b1cb297229-time-banking.mp4).
What is important is that in this case people could make valuable (traceable work) money :)
Kelios mintys dėl laiko bankininkystės: "Pinigai tuomet apsibrėžtų kaip "nekompensuotos valandos" -- visuomenės skola žmogui, kurią ji padengia duodama teises už jas nusipirkti kitų projektų rezultatų..."
video.
Kas svarbu, tai, kad tokiu atveju žmonės galėtų vertę turinčių (atsekamų darbų rezultatų) pinigų pasigaminti :)
Thinking, of double strategy: business that funds decentralization encryption of user data from being able to see itself, and funds decentralization and dis-own-ment of its services.
Why? Because it's the amount of funds needed for development of the decenralized solution is large enough, that can only be funded as part of the business operations.
Current questions for 0oo front end:
How can UI work as an ice-breaker and encourage people to post humourous responses?
What types of ideas there are? So that diverse people feel welcomed to share their idea on 0oo.
Make OpenERP have REST APIs, and get companies listed as 0oo.li/projects and get them automatically list their products on 0oo.li/products ?
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I think, we should operate as a global and free public service, because this type of site, like Wikipedia, serves like a basic infrastructure for public politics, innovation and work. While usually public services are limited to specific countries, they, like the payment processor services, can also be engineered to support multiple jurisdictions simultaneously...
I think logged in users need a reader, that would allow to read external sources, and choose what to import to 0oo. For example, the view like
/reader/ideas
could let us use 0oo.li like a reader of Halfbakery, with special button, to import the ideas that we like. Similarly,/reader/projects
may let us browse and read companies, etc.This would allow the users of 0oo.li to work like researchers, browsing external questions, ideas, projects, and importing the gems for discussion and work here.
It's almost like our community would have a data-lake of external data sources, and be able to import things worth paying attention to for our community.
I think we should partner with opencollective.org on the ledger (projects ledger) side, and should discuss about desired generality, as we have on 0oo. Also, consider collaboration with odoo.com, as they provide the ability for companies do nearly all business operations by themselves, and companies running Odoo could easily publish parts of their data from ERP to 0oo for public. (We should write an odoo modules for that, for all ERPs.)
The advances in decentralization and clear 0oo database model, makes me think that we could decentralize this system, but it has to be a new effort of its own.
Feature requests:
a symbol or emoticon to appreciate, like, agree, disagree with a comment without a need to respond to it via text comment
a symbol to mention a user, like @user or [user] or smth else
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// emoticon to appreciate, like, agree, disagree with a comment // @user or [user] or smth else
Haha. Makes sense. Will add these. Definitely, not always one needs to respond, one may just want to add a <3 or ThumbsUp.
One more feature request or clarification:
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[Ruta], got it :) Will add that into work queue. ^__^ Makes a lot of sense. 7HUR = 70 USD -- yes, almost. The exchange rates are computed hourly, at /rate.
Feature Request:
Now, I click on a username and end up on their profile page, I click on "Start chatting" and end up here https://io.0oo.li/direct/username, so I send a message, but a user is not online, while a user may be online on Telegram, which would spark a clarification of a comment straight away
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Feature requests:
Scroll to Top button/icon on mobile
Selecting existing Project for existing Idea
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Feature requests:
Add "Culture" as a Type for Projects.
A way for users to "Archive" a Question or Idea by clicking a button "Archive" (so that it becomes a "silent" post but not visible on Home page), in cases of merging, duplication or even when a user realises that a previous post is not relevant anymore. Archived posts could have a label "archived" in headline or something.
A button asking a thinker to "Clarify" a Question or Idea.
Make adding existing Ideas to existing Projects easier (now, Ideas are added as number-codes, which sometimes creates an error).
Enable seeing "Revisions" of what was edited when updating a Question and Ideas, because it shows a thought process of a thinker and is interesting/valuable to see for other users (e.g. WordPress websites have this function for blogging, Medium might have this function for blogging too..)
A button "Invite a Member" to a Project.
Have sub-projects under Project, in cases if a project is a community/membership project.
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User interactions on the project level are essential. Because when a project grows, users are motivated to keep on creating. It's a feedback loop. But it's weird to ask if each project needs help. So users end up working on their project solo, which is slow effort.
So how about this solution:
"Challenge" button within a Project page that allows a creator to comment on what are the current challenges/needs for their project?
This way other users (doers) can simply respond to Challenge and submit Results.
This would spark spontaneous cooperation between all users spread across many different projects and create a synergy moment, where by doing small tasks, together, these users kickstart all projects to the next level.
The same behaviour can repeat on the same level and shape cultural norms, i.e. instead of being stuck people would organise to help each other and solve all global challenges.
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A form to declare Results is difficult, this prevents newbie users of sharing results.
Could this be simplified and include only:
Project
Happened
Summary (rename to Result to keep it consistent, i.e. on Project page a button says "Result", so keep it here too)
Details
Url
Hours Spent (merging Costs and Currency, making hour declarations as a default)
Author
(hiding all other fields until users learn to Declare Results and Hours)
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Allowing a user to add a link to Library would be useful. Why? Because we read articles and they spark ideas and questions.
Similar functionality like Instapaper/Pocket, that allow to add a link to one place to read it later.
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So, as [Ruta] has pointed out, projects may benefit from having "Challenges" (like KPIs or targets for projects), and I think, additionally, we could have something of a "Leaderboard" view or sort option for projects at 0oo.li/projects. I agree that this would be great things to add, and yeah, on the to-do list for projects.
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in near future, it'd be cool to facilitate funding people directly via 0oo platform for the results they declare realising projects.
this is how it could work:
1.Funder discovers whom to fund
a funder prioritises projects by category (arts, sciences, innovation, etc) and chooses a Project to fund
OR
first, a funder browses through all research questions, ideas, projects and discovers an Individual (or a few) that they like and decide to:
fund that user directly with a recurring donation
form a project with that user with a recurring donation attached to it
2.Funder clicks a button to make a recurring monthly donation of chosen amount to that user or a project
3.User keeps on declaring results to the Project and gets a recurring donation to a wallet that allows to cashout (transfer the money to their online bank or paypal)
this feature would suit perfectly for matching artists/independent researchers with philanthropists/patrons who already provide "residencies", "bursaries", "stipends", "donations" in programs part of universities, research centres, art centres
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I need a <3 button for comments. Yeah, [Ruta], that's exactly the kind of functionality that I'd love to add. (⇡)
Amazing to see Challenges feature realised! So useful when asking for help from strangers. I just posted my first Challenge in SAME project.
Feature requests:
Emoticons in comments
Background colour on homepage section "operations" to match a background colour of "results" within a project page
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Feature request from [Ruta]:
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Feature request:
Adding labels (meta-categories) to all types (Questions, Ideas, Projects) would allow users to see diversity of thinkers and quickly realise how to make a useful comment
Meta-categories could be: Science, Economy, Culture, Education, Art, Philosophy, Technology
For example:
if a question talks about flying to Mars, this question is labeled as Science
if a question talks about improving roads, it's labeled as Economy
if it talks about human traditions and rituals, it's labeled as Culture
if it talks about making learning more fun, it's labeled as Education
if it talks about social norms and creative experiments, it's labeled as Art
if it talks about new ways of thinking and mental models, it's labeled as Philosophy
if it talks about new technologies, it's labeled as Technology
What other meta-categories would help group everything shared on this website?
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RE challenge:
// How to get goal-aligned interest groups of visionaries, regulators, inventors, doers+financiers to come to 0oo.li from diverse world's economic blocs? //
Structuring community development in stages helps and leaves time for relationship development and enjoying the journey. I suggest to start with the most important group first: visionaries and inventors (so that 0oo is filled with topics to discuss and drive projects from). Then moving to doers+financiers. Lastly, to regulators.
How to discover visionaries? I suggest to contact universities in locations that get less funding for R&D. Students have time to think, research and develop. Countries with less resources have more urgency to get involved in a new initiative like 0oo, compared to Western countries and busy cities with too-much-going-on. Simply sending emails to student unions, R&D programmes, open innovation programmes in universities is doable. Starting with 1 student union.
In terms of "goal-aligned groups", I suggest inviting non-profit organisations that research Sustainable Development Goals and/or have "100% of life" and similar in their mission statements, to share their research projects on 0oo so that they get input from the crowd, also invite researchers to use 0oo for cross-pollination of ideas and research questions.
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Thanks for great suggestions towards the tackling the challenge, [Ruta]. All great suggestions, though, I have doubts about one:
// Countries with less resources have more urgency to get involved in a new initiative like 0oo, compared to Western countries and busy cities with too-much-going-on
The scientific research being well-funded in the West doesn't imply that there is no desire to discuss science and engineering publicly. On the contrary...
Yes, there are little known universities, that had nevertheless produced exceptional talent. The talent is not so much a function of "university", but rather, of the specific individuals that end up there (likely due to their family and extracurricular education, not because of the university). So, I'd rather not focus on on-boarding universities, but focus on those individuals, as you once said
1:1
.// desire to discuss science and engineering publicly //
I suggest to add inter-disciplinary discussion as a benefit here. There are places on-line for scientists to talk.
But where is an open place on the Internet (or in the world) to discuss sciences, arts, design, engineering and business, all together?
It does not exist. So who would disagree that such a diverse mix of thinking would produce unexpected ideas and projects? Great offer for those who like to think and create.
// I suggest to add inter-disciplinary discussion as a benefit here //
Of course, that is one of those magical things about the place and generality of its structure -- it is to cultivate the truly interdisciplinary thought. :) It could be a truly unique benefit: I think the core of 0oo must the "weirdo creative futurist dreamers", and others be more of a supportive periphery, i.e., regulators/investors/financiers -- be the ones who say "ouch" or "go ahead" -- with their regulatory or financial actions, meanwhile leaving the creative spirit to be what it is.
:) I thought, regarding events, we have a place for events :) https://0oo.li/events . I'm thinking, we could use it. The Lifeboat Foundation uses its "what's new" "( https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new ), where they share various news they find and relevant to their audience. We could do too. Then link those events with Questions / Ideas / Projects, the readers of which may find it interesting to participate in them. E.g., if we have a topic on Finance, finance discussion events may be auto-linked, if it is something about art, then art exploration meetings could be connected, etc.
Great, love it! So how do Weirdo Creative Futurist Dreamers come and join those events?
// How do Weirdo Creative Futurist Dreamers come and join those events?
Well, events obviously need calendar links, that we could display alongside them. :)
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Great to see likes on comments feature realised! I wonder, does it make sense to transform "-" into "?". This way "+" means agreement and "?" means a request to clarify a comment. This way it's more constructive and encourages commentators to continue discussion rather than disagreeing which ends the discussion.
I added a challenge: How can homepage encourage new users to see what the platform is for? (Feedback from 6 people about them feeling overloaded). How can Dream=World(Actions) aka Y=F(X) be more obvious for newbies?
Suggestion: On homepage, add "Dream=World(Actions)" instead of "FEEDS Items created in last 7 days are in bold." to communicate the purpose of the platform. See this photo of what I mean
// "Dream=World(Actions)" at the top.. //
Yeah, and good visually! Totally makes sense. It's a to-do. ;)
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Regarding comment likes/dislikes, do we want to be able to see, who liked/disliked? :) I think yes, because people care to know who read them, without explicit replies.
Or, better, make read-receipts, so that anyone can optionally just add a "tick", to indicate they had read, leaving the likes to be for evaluation rather than read-receipt indication.
Idea for feature request:
Having a time limit focuses everyone to think creatively and creates a bond between strangers fast.
I used to moderate live twitter chats for hundreds of strangers. Worked great!
Right, that makes sense, it's usually done through certain timed online activities, that would be easy by combining Zoom + Google calendar. However, I'd think it might be not fun if the number of people is too small. E.g., if just 3 people show up :) It would be more fun if there were say 8 people or so to start with, so, I'd think, well, plan it for the future. Good direction though.
In addition, I imagine there are different kinds of meetings: - (for goals & ideas) sorting and voting on them, helping discover new links (related works), and free talking - (for projects) there are people who might want to catch up periodically about their project progress, almost like startups, and consult each others.
One of the shortcomings of the Airtable-based calendars is that they do not show the details of the event, only name, when added to calendars, so I don't know how many people actually subscribed to them.
Love that. Having online meetups for:
would be useful and help people find collaborators and get into feedback loop to move projects forward.
Instead of a Calendar, it would be cool to have a button somewhere that people click to announce about willingness to connect on Zoom.
Maybe it can start as a generic Question "Online Meetups for 0oo" where 0oo users comment when they want to come together on a call.
Just let users set their project's url name, so that projects, ideas, etc. could register their handles, e.g. the 0oo.li/project/1011 could map to 0oo.li/project/mutantu if
mutantu
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Some comments, those that are responses to challenges, may appear in different color, and be showable under those challenges, cause that part works a bit like quora? I think, we should also make an option then for the resolved issues to disappear from the home page.
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A feature to mark solved or archived Challenges would be useful. I don't like deleting because it's valuable to see that there was a Challenge and now it's solved or not relevant anymore.
I've got to mention, that the way 0oo works as a HomeBase, is a bit inspired by my favorite game, called "X-COM: UFO Enemy Unknown", where humans have to manage bases to defend Earth from Alien Invasion with management of resources. So, that's why each project has "Locations" (click image next to "+[Transfer]"), and my old idea of "Goal tracking and resource management" database. :) Anyway, there were really many things in fact, that inspired it. That fun could actually start in real, if we realize this idea that could be like an economic X-COM for good.
[justinmiyamoto], your result appears to be either not public, or incorrect. What I'm seeing is this. I suppose, your result is about a UI design or improvements? Try making google drive link publicly visible.