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==Overall==
==Overall==
My WSAs are in two main parts: projects I originated and projects [[issue:Tessa Lovelace|Tessa]] originated. At this point, we're loosely collaborating on both sets.
My WSAs have two main areas of focus: (a) actually making things better, and (b) funding to enable the work on [a]
===Projects===
'''Self-governance''': I've been working for well over a decade on a concept for software that enables horizontal self-governance. The documents for that are over at [https://instagov.com InstaGov]. The main goal of that project is to improve the quality of collective decision-making, while avoiding hierarchy or other unaccountable power. The two main pieces are a system for voting that avoids creating power-manipulation bottlenecs and another system that helps with truth-seeking based on evidence (as a defense against disinformation).


There are also two main areas of focus: (a) actually making things better, and (b) funding to enable the work on [a]
'''Other miscellany''': More recently, I've come up with some other software concepts that sit outside the norm of profit-driven interests; there is a list of those [https://wooz.dev/Projects on wooz.dev].
===My Projects===
My main making-things-better project starts with software intended to help people to:
* make collective decisions better, non-hierarchically
* tell truth from propaganda, without sacrificing any fine points or nuance


Aside from using this to help settle political debates (or, more realistically, sort out which views are evidence-based and which are tribal-loyalty-based), it should greatly empower cooperative enterprises to better manage their resources. Development is currently (2020-09-04) a #2 or #3 priority because money.
'''VbzCart''': In the background (and sometimes the foreground) since about 2012 is rebuilding the online retail operation I used to run and reinventing it as part of a distributed network of small retail operations that are capable of tight integration in order to have the clout of a larger company. My larger plan is to outcompete the hierarchically-organized giant-corporate business model by treating workers as fellow humans who should own the benefits of their work, and who generally have a right to live regardless of their "economic value" -- basically a socialist business operating within (and gradually eroding) the capitalist paradigm.


...which gets into the funding aspect, as my top priority right now is rebuilding an online retail operation I had to take offline a few years ago and then making it into a cooperatively-governed distributed kind of thing... which gets back into the making-things-better aspect, as my plan is to outcompete the hierarchically-organized giant-corporate business model by treating workers as fellow humans that we want to take care of rather than as "human resources" to squeeze for all they're worth -- prioritizing people generally (how is our work benefiting society overall?) and as individuals (what part of the overall work would this person be most enthusiastic and effective at?) rather than prioritizing profit (how can we most effectively make a small number of people much much richer than everyone else?) -- basically a socialist business operating within (and gradually eroding) the capitalist paradigm.
The reason this rebuilding is taking so long is that I've ended up rewriting and re-rewriting the application framework it uses, Ferreteria -- for a number of reasons, including:
 
* '''Speed''': Ferreteria has shown itself to be very fast, possibly because it uses no JavaScript for basic navigation and display.
Meanwhile, I also work on various [[WIA|World-Improving Activities]].
* '''Dexterity''': I want to understand what I'm using down at least to the raw language level, so I know what can be done with it as-is and how to go about adding new capabilities when needed.
===Tessa's Projects===
==Notes==
Tessa's current main project, meanwhile, involves designing and building self-contained off-grid "[https://asp.vbz.net/mw/PodHomes pod homes]" that support a 21st-century quality of life without requiring city services (water, sewer, electricity). (They're also working on a plan to make mesh internet more widely available, free, to remove that dependency as well, but that's a separate project.) They plan to sell these homes on a sort of pay-what-you-can-afford basis, selling them with a high margin to semi-rich people who want to be comfortable when society collapses (but can't afford their own multimillion-dollar subterranean retreat) and giving them away to homeless people who can't afford to buy. Toward this end they have purchased [https://asp.vbz.net/mw/Thorn_Valley 20 acres of desert land in the Oregon badlands], and are building a production facility using volunteer labor.
* [[/archive]]
 
They also have a lot of other plans, some much longer-term and more ambitious, but I don't yet know which parts I'm supposed to be talking about. As of 2022-03, they're accumulating resources for some substantial work on a small sustainable rural community in Oregon.

Revision as of 22:06, 3 July 2024

Status of Woozle's World-Saving Activities (WSAs)
as of 2020-09-04

world-saving .. world-improving

Overall

My WSAs have two main areas of focus: (a) actually making things better, and (b) funding to enable the work on [a]

Projects

Self-governance: I've been working for well over a decade on a concept for software that enables horizontal self-governance. The documents for that are over at InstaGov. The main goal of that project is to improve the quality of collective decision-making, while avoiding hierarchy or other unaccountable power. The two main pieces are a system for voting that avoids creating power-manipulation bottlenecs and another system that helps with truth-seeking based on evidence (as a defense against disinformation).

Other miscellany: More recently, I've come up with some other software concepts that sit outside the norm of profit-driven interests; there is a list of those on wooz.dev.

VbzCart: In the background (and sometimes the foreground) since about 2012 is rebuilding the online retail operation I used to run and reinventing it as part of a distributed network of small retail operations that are capable of tight integration in order to have the clout of a larger company. My larger plan is to outcompete the hierarchically-organized giant-corporate business model by treating workers as fellow humans who should own the benefits of their work, and who generally have a right to live regardless of their "economic value" -- basically a socialist business operating within (and gradually eroding) the capitalist paradigm.

The reason this rebuilding is taking so long is that I've ended up rewriting and re-rewriting the application framework it uses, Ferreteria -- for a number of reasons, including:

  • Speed: Ferreteria has shown itself to be very fast, possibly because it uses no JavaScript for basic navigation and display.
  • Dexterity: I want to understand what I'm using down at least to the raw language level, so I know what can be done with it as-is and how to go about adding new capabilities when needed.

Notes

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