Dear Sam,<br><br>This is a really great document, and it is hugely important, and therefore a great advance, that p2p principles are translated in such a potent way for local usage,<br><br>two remarks,<br><br>- I think you may want to articulate the precise relationship between open source and business, it's implied but I can imagine the obvious remark of, if it's open source, how can we make money ... so some phrase or two showing how open software and design creates vibrant economies ?<br>
<br>- two, while I broadly agree with your statement about politics, I think it is formulated too strongly anti-politically, a lot of what you want to do will be impacted by legal prohibitions and such, which you may have to change, and this brings you into politics/policy, so you need to articulate some kind of connection<br>
<br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Samuel Rose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel.rose@gmail.com">samuel.rose@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
What do you all think?:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto</a></div>
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<h1 style="font-weight: bold;">Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto</h1><div><h3 style="font-weight: bold;">From P2P Foundation</h3><div>
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<tbody><tr><td><div><h2 style="font-weight: bold;">Contents</h2></div><ul style="list-style-type: square;"><li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Contributors" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>1</span> <span>Contributors</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#.22Michigan_is_Screwed.22" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>2</span> <span>"Michigan is Screwed"</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Energy" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>3</span> <span>Energy</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Education" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>4</span> <span>Education</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Manufacturing" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>5</span> <span>Manufacturing</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Research_and_Development" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>6</span> <span>Research and Development</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Food_systems" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>7</span> <span>Food systems</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Jobs" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>8</span> <span>Jobs</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Government" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>9</span> <span>Government</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#Your_additions_here" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>10</span> <span>Your additions here</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#References" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span>11</span> <span>References</span></a></li>
</ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Contributors</span></h2><ul style="list-style-type: square;"><li>I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/</a> and co-founder <a href="http://futureforwardinstitute.com/" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://futureforwardinstitute.com/</a> I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.</li>
</ul><h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>"Michigan is Screwed"</span></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
See: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM</a></p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;"><br>Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden</a> Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University <a href="http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65</a>:</p>
<blockquote><i>Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).</i></blockquote>
<sup><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#_note-0" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.</p><h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Energy</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;"><b>There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.</b> Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance <a href="http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html</a> ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering</a></p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example <a href="http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas</a> ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.</p>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Education</span></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with<a href="http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home</a> <a href="http://ftacademy.org/" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://ftacademy.org/</a> <a href="http://www.oercommons.org/" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://www.oercommons.org/</a> etc etc )</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. <b>No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.</b></p>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Manufacturing</span></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year.</p>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Research and Development</span></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible.</p>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Food systems</span></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the <b>hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state</b>.</p>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Jobs</span></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
<b>NO. No more jobs.</b> It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<sup><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#_note-1" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.</p>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Government</span></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;"><b>We can do it without political parties</b> following <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Political_Principles_of_Peer-to-Peer_Advocacy" title="The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy</a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;"><i><b>No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.</b></i></p>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Your additions here</span></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px ! important; line-height: 1.2em;">
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.</p>
<h2 style="font-weight: bold;"><span>References</span></h2><ol><li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#_ref-0" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">↑</a> Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at <a href="http://igniteannarbor.com/" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://igniteannarbor.com</a> see <a href="http://ingenuitas.com/" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://ingenuitas.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&printable=yes#_ref-1" style="color: rgb(85, 34, 0); background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">↑</a> <a href="http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html" style="color: inherit ! important; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: inherit ! important;" target="_blank">http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</a></li>
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