Did you know neuroscientists and
psychologists are finally uncovering the secrets of happiness?
The answers are so obvious that we
sometimes fail to see what we already know.
Doing good, enjoying your relations
with other people, helping each other, learning, exercising,...
Anyhow. If you can think of reasons why you want to participate in this (already called insane, outrageous and brilliantly naive by peers) project, feel free to post it!
If you think participating in an
eco-project that tries to better the world (and me, as you already
noticed),here's your chance!
My second substantial contributor is
Stijn. He could accomplish what another participant, Karel, tried to
figure out. Karel gave me good advise about websites and some
free-bees.
Stijn is an open source expert and
already had some knowledge to register a domain name for me.
So now I have a domain-name. I think I
need web-space right now, don't I?
And then I need some neat Java (or
similar) applications for the web environment, the rating system and
the easy wiki-like editing.
I really don't have a clue how to do
that. You might!
The knowledge of you guys is
astounding! Collective intelligence can realise miracles (sort of).
In a fast-changing world, we need
solutions faster than a classic organisation can handle.
I hope we all can contribute for a
better world, and by doing so inventing new strategies that bypass
the old hurdles (getting together in space and time, needing money
for every single piece of expert knowledge,...)
You guys and girls are great!
Keep spreading the word, and contribute
within your field of knowledge!
Oh yeah, I also made Facebook group,
and a Linkedin group may follow soon.
Thank you Hannes Couvreur for being the first contributer to the project! May your name be engraved if this whole project succeeds!
You can find his article http://ledeberg.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/can-you-have-the-internet-build-you-an-eco-home/
He mentioned that he'll be publishing an intervieuw soon.
Onward!
What are the elements I need now to further the project? - More spreading of the idea... so place a link towards this site, spread the word you guys and gall's. - Some really creative web designers (students, people who want to add this project to their portfolio,...)!
=> I want a 3-D navigation environment in 'network' or 'mindmap' style (or neuronal network). Each node may contain maximum 7 links to other nodes, and the depth may only be 7 nodes (which gives a maximum of 7^7 nodes, but it should be reduced by factor 10 to allow for interconnections)
=> I need a 'scetch' book, where people can post there designs, scetches, and general visual aids about the house.
=> the system needs to have a rating system. As such, contributions can be rated by critics. Of course, my vote tends to have a bit more power (as i'm going to live in the house, i'dd like to have my say as well ;)
=> the big parts are the parts discribed in the mindmap of the previous post.
And of course : Can somebody tell me how I can aquire a .com domain name for free? (or .org or .be for that matter)
Thanks To Karel for giving me some web advise, You, miss or mister anonymous visitor, for finding this site!
First and foremost: welcome to another 21st century experiment !
This blog is my first attempt to make my project known.
-------------I WANT YOU TO BUILD MY HOUSE---------------
How? Your ideas and your plans and technology will be selected, used, shared and finally integrated in a blueprint for a house. Your company might want to sponsor the house, or provide top notch products, aid or support
Finally, as everybody places his virtual or real stones together, a house can be constructed. A house that can serve as a blueprint for other houses to be built!
Everything that you guys contribute on the site will be under Creative Commons License,
What's in it for you? - If the house is ever to be built, every person who made a valuable contribution during the project will be engraved in one or more stones of the house - The whole project will be put in one big document/book. So that afterwards, the whole process can be repeated on the basis of this document. note that this book will also be written en edited by... you - Your company, as some kind of sponsoring will have the opportunity to make itself known as contributor. - You are helping to create a new standard of living in the 21st and coming centuries, where technology, nature and humans are in (some kind of perfect) harmony - You will learn a whole lot from this joint venture with every contributor.
Where to start? well... this is the Kick off, the first official page, and maybe the site will move, or change. The general idea is launched, and now you can al start and contribute!
