Moderators note: Adem, I leave this post through on the list with a suggestion. As you probably know, this discussion list is mainly concerned about solving...
A new years message to Globalvillagers "We are the ones who still seem to be figuring out... ....how to be the ones we've been waiting for." Tom Atlee,...
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Edward Cherlin
echerlin@...
Jan 11, 2011 8:15 pm
Readers should note that there are more than 2 million children in more than 30 countries using One Laptop Per Child XO laptops with extensive communications...
Franz, Thank you for writing your vision for the future of the Global Villages Network. Thank you also for your kind words. I share with my working group...
Hi Fridgeir, Thank you for your inquiry. The files are there but the permissions were incorrect because I had moved everything to a new server. I've fixed the...
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suryarao maturu
suryaraom@...
Jan 14, 2011 11:23 pm
moderators note: Surya, it took me 20 minutes to re-edit the following mail to the pont of legibility. Writing in capital letters is considererd shouting,...
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suryarao maturu
suryaraom@...
Jan 15, 2011 8:09 am
my dear moderator---franz ! i apologise, unconditionally & profusely------------for all my capital letters ! for me, i never ever ,...
I've put up a list of 200 ways that I've figured things out: http://www.selflearners.net/ways/ I share with several other groups who may be interested what I...
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Ben de Vries
bendevries1968@...
Jan 21, 2011 9:46 am
(Moderators note: This is a very controversial subject, and one that requires an introduction on opening. Indeed we have learned first hand from Inga who went...
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Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt...
hexayurt@...
Jan 21, 2011 10:53 am
This is clearly an attempt to damage Marcin's ability to deliver the vital technologies that he's dedicated his life to developing and delivering. In fact,...
Yesterday was the big "official" Zeitgeist: Moving Forward premiere screening in Viennas Votiv cinema, one of over 1000 screenings in 335 movie theatres around...
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Ben de Vries
bendevries1968@...
Jan 21, 2011 4:50 pm
Franz, Vinay, All these technologies already exist, and are not his. *So it is OK to use people up and throw them away for these goals? * (I really do want...
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Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt...
hexayurt@...
Jan 21, 2011 5:35 pm
Ben, let me summarize this: I do not consider your emotional state to be Marcin's responsibility. If you did not enjoy working with him, you were free to stop...
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Ben de Vries
bendevries1968@...
Jan 21, 2011 6:14 pm
I see I have already been removed. Thank you all for making your position clear. I'd tried to address these concerns in quieter fashion... you weren't ...
... Ben, you have not been removed from here. You had the opportunity to speak out, What really worries me, and I think Vinay is right, is that you mix the ...
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Ben de Vries
bendevries1968@...
Jan 21, 2011 7:23 pm
I am not the one who made it personal. My goal is to prevent him from doing FURTHER damage to those who seek to help him based on his sham show. I will never...
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Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt...
hexayurt@...
Jan 21, 2011 7:25 pm
1> unsubstantiated conversation reported as fact. 2> as far as I can see he's working himself into the ground to deliver 3> the output is there - not perfect,...
I've been reading letters at Global Villages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/ by Ben de Vries, Franz Nahrada and Vinay Gupta about Marcin...
Hi Fridgeir (and readers of my open letters at http://dadamac.posterous.com) I saw your letter through a thread on globalvillages@yahoogroups.com and elsewhere...
I think it's important that powerful moderators on this list, and especially those who benefit from being associate with any success Marcin may gain, recuse...
Dear All, For me it is very important that we be honest about what we are doing and not BS people if it is that we are going to put forward a real alternative ...
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hexayurt@...
Jan 23, 2011 8:50 pm
Marcin is pretty typical of a lot of top-flight engineers, people. We're known for being autocratic, dictatorial and hard to work with. All this cultural...
... I think that's a rather extreme and one-sided way to put it. There's also something to be said for the principle that "the means are the ends in action,"...
I like this. For myself, I've been trying to contribute in what ways I can to the community I find myself in. An example is there is a push to set up a hack ...
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Reinhold Ziegler (415...
synergyca@...
Jan 24, 2011 6:16 am
"Some top-flight engineers are known for being autocratic, dictatorial and hard to work with". Yes that is probably true especially if you are working on your...
... I share this with the videobridgebuilders and of course with Inga and Ralf. Hello Lawrence, thanks for showing up in such a constructive way. I still...
... Reinhold, I am not totally clear about what you mean. Is the GridBeamers concept - which I find very interesting (reminds me of my tooling with Matador as...
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Reinhold Ziegler (415...
synergyca@...
Jan 24, 2011 9:03 am
Gruess Dich Franz, A Happy New Year to you. We have been proponents and developers of the Gridbeam building system (aka Matrix®) for 35 years. We have...
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Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt...
hexayurt@...
Jan 24, 2011 10:10 am
... the network. What ... Marcin may well have a combination of stereotypical engineering and entrepreneurial character traits - I think it's fairy easy to...
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Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt...
hexayurt@...
Jan 24, 2011 10:31 am
Ah, I like gridbeam - haven't had much of a chance to play with it, but a friend brought some to an Engineers Without Borders event and, yep, it's Good Stuff....
