The Legend of Lin: A Tale of Community-Centric Enablement
The Legend of Lin: A Tale of Community-Centric Enablement
Welcome to the Team
Documents for Our JourneyDesign Principles and ContextThe Building Blocks of PLANUse Cases and User Experience IdiomsPLAN Systems Teams and PositionsHow to Apply The tragedy of the commons is not an inevitability, it’s a mythos we can overcome. This idea survives the life and work of Elinor Ostrom. Lin, as she liked to be called, was a scientist and compassionate humanist who helped identify an analytical framework whereby people in community can sustain limited resources over generations. To the surprise of …
Music Visuals for a Cause
Music Visuals for a Cause – PLAN Systems is a Technology 501(c)(3) co-founded by Drew O’Meara, CTO of SoundSpectrum, who inspired a generation of digital artists with epic audio reactive music visualizers. Drew is now spearheading the development of critical tools for digital privacy, ease of collaboration, and universal inclusion. The featured video includes an original live music performance production woven together with the G-Force music visualizer. Thanks so much for taking the time to learn about our development effort. …
Decentralized Web Camp 2019 Experience
PLAN at DWeb 2019Energized event staff, engaging activity spaces, and awe inspiring campgrounds; creating future technology solutions for humans!Arrival at the Mushroom Farm | Beauty, Intention, & RegenerationThe Internet Archive led DWeb Camp took place on the coastline of California, around 40 miles south of San Francisco — hosted by a majestic organic farm community focused on regenerative solutions. While previous DWeb events have occurred, not much was known about exactly what would unfold at what was ultimately a highly …
The Web is Broken – Community Technology is the Answer
The World Wide Web is broken. That’s not just my opinion, it’s the sentiment from veteran inventor Sir. Tim Burners Lee, by all accounts the progenitor of the original internet protocols (think HTML). Recently, in a VF interview with Katrina Brooker, TBL is quoted saying “We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places,” and that with the increasing centralization of the web “ended up producing—with …
Visual Collaboration Tools ⏣ The Founding of PLAN Systems
A Journey TowardsResilient CommunitiesPresidentBrandon D. WallaceChief EngineerDrew O’MearaInspirationThe intrinsic value of community (and by extension an economy) grows from human relationships, along with the skills, resources, effort and time that is contributed. The global narrative that we see unfolding seems to be ignoring this key premise, while societies become increasingly reliant on the digital gate-keepers of services, systems, people, and communities. Realization Over the past decade, the enormous utility of social platforms, as well as digital ledger technologies in banking, finance, …