<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"> Thanks John,</span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I agree with your perspective, and if you remember my early writings on flok, that's exactly how I put it then, that we couldn't know what would happen in Ecuador, but that it would still plant seeds.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Michel</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
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</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"> 1. Re: an evaluation of the flok (John Baxter)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 16:30:20 +0930</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">From: John Baxter <</span><a href="mailto:john@jsbaxter.com.au" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">john@jsbaxter.com.au</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Subject: Re: [P2P-F] an evaluation of the flok</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">To: P2P Foundation mailing list <</span><a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Thank you for continuing to share the rough bits Michel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I always looked to FLOK as an 'ambitious' research project that would</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">produce much value but couldn't imagine that it would really lead to the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">sort of change on Ecuador that was hoped. Though I shared the hopes.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Looking at what you have done (the transition proposal) makes me think of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Holmgren's take on present cultural proliferation? that whilst mostly</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">wasteful, exactly that wasteful diversity makes the amazing things possible</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">that will really be of ongoing value as we steward challenging transitions</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">on this planet (especially as resource constraints will likely soon make</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">such rich cultural production impossible).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Looking over the transition proposal for the first time recently was</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">incredibly inspiring. I think you have produced (more accurately, are</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">producing) one of the few great gems that will continue to be meaningful</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">and valuable regardless of how quickly its initial motivation is forgotten.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I write to make sure everyone has an eye on FLOK from this angle.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">*John Baxter*</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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