PLAN distributed systems

10 Design Principles for Future Technology Systems

Brandon WallacePLAN Technology

So many organizations out there are looking for quality solutions for productivity and collaboration to scale their efforts; from CRM, project management, to information visualization tools generally. But quality systems don’t just happen on accident, and quality often means different things to different people. So what should we expect from future technology systems? How should they be built and evaluated? Having a framework, or a set of design principles can help guide the way. To answer this need for accessibility-minded, …

Becoming a Technology 501(c)(3) – Form 1023

Brandon WallacePLAN Organization

It’s strange in it’s specificity, beautiful in it’s bureaucratic efficiency, and perhaps most of all, it’s cryptically confronting in it’s expectations. Form 1023 is the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s turn of the 20th century process for seeking recognition as a tax exempt charitable, religious, or educational organization. Undergoing this process is as much about preparation and document management, as it is precision of language and commitment to the cause. In this discussion, we’ll explore critical parts of the process to …

Collaborative Spaces – Environment Creation

Brandon WallacePLAN Technology

As distributed, p2p systems unlock new potential for community technology and realtime communications, we can also start to imagine the types of environments that will be conducive for collaboration. In this prototype Space for a coastal farm community, we start by orienting to the environment that we want to build or model.

Decentralized Web Camp 2019 PLAN Systems

Decentralized Web Camp 2019 Experience

Brandon WallacePLAN Community, PLAN Technology

PLAN at DWeb 2019 Energized event staff, engaging activity spaces, and awe inspiring campgrounds; creating future technology solutions for humans!Arrival at the Mushroom Farm | Beauty, Intention, & Regeneration The  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 …

hello universe PLAN command line demo

Hello Universe ⏣ PLAN Data Model Demo

Brandon WallacePLAN Technology

The Foundation of a Virtual Community Operating System | Put your virtual snorkel on … this is a deep dive into the command line of PLAN! Cloud Computing and Operating System virtualization represents a paradigm shift in the way we share and store information, and is changing the technology landscape. As an example, it’s hard not to love the convenience and ease of Goo and FB applications, but the lack of true data & identity ownership, along with the sacrifice …

Decentralized Web Camp 2019 – Gearing Up

Brandon WallacePLAN Technology

Sponsor this ProjectPLAN Systems at DWeb Camp 2019 We’re excited to attend the Decentralized Web Camp, sponsored by the Internet Archive. DWeb 2019 is an opportunity for us to collaborate with other community oriented technology organizations, demonstrate core functionality of PLAN, while also gaining critical experience building offgrid networks. Help support our journey.Our Goals at DWeb  Our Proposal Demonstrating PLAN in an Offline EnvironmentAt this year’s DWeb event, we will be demonstrating and filming what has been years of envisioning. …

PLAN Systems Community Technology Tools

The Web is Broken – Community Technology is the Answer

Brandon WallacePLAN Community

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 …

Data Ownership 1st | Innovative Storage Node

Brandon WallacePLAN Technology

PLAN Systms own your data UniversePLAN storage Node: Flexible & Scalable PLAN Systems engineering is proud to announce another step forward towards the PLAN prototype scheduled for mid 2019. Since the previous milestone of fully laying out PLAN’s design and its rigorous Proof of Correctness, we now have the PLAN “storage node” on its feet. As our design-docs describe, this daemon (background process) implements a “StorageProvider”, which is a highly secure repository for a PLAN community to warehouse its data. This …

Data Portability & Reliability | 2 Essentials

Brandon WallacePLAN Technology

Data Portability and Reliability for Everyone PLAN is built on an open “pluggable” architecture that integrates end-to-end encryption, distributed and local data-storage, and interoperable data-transport technologies — all accessible from a realtime visual interface. Woah, that’s a Wall of Words to climb for a lot of people! Stick around though, we’re going to journey into uncharted territory with exciting concepts that you can’t unsee! Above all, the open source technology being developed by PLAN Systems is about visual collaboration, data-ownership, …

Visual Collaboration Tools ⏣ The Founding of PLAN Systems

Brandon WallacePLAN Community

A Journey Towards Resilient CommunitiesPresident Brandon D. WallaceChief Engineer Drew 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 …