[lug] BLUG: a Decentralized Autonomous Organization Re: Last BLUG speaker

[Neal McBurnett]

> "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So far as I know, Thursday's speaker will be BLUG's last. (I expect
> > Anna will put out a second notice for Rob's talk later today or
> > tomorrow.)

Hmm - what with the trend still moving away from the Cathedral to the Bazaar, surely we just need to move away from expecting techies to do centralized control, administrative oversight and people-management.  What would it look like to open the space up for a yet deeper form of self-organization here?

It should be easy to set things up so that people can self-nominate and put themselves on the schedule for the next meeting, and announcements can be automated from there on.  That just requires someone willing to code up the rules in their favorite language and server stack - hopefully easier than getting a committment to be the organizer and chief nagger.

This approach would simply require that we retain the resources we need: a mailing list (thanks, Kevin!), and a regularly-scheduled spot at Applied Trust (with some sort of deadline to release it if nothing materializes by an appropriate deadline for a given month).

This even fits in with a topic that has been on my mind.  The latest buzzword in the Blockchain world (that's the innovative disruptive technology behind Bitcoin) is Decentralized Autonomous Corporations (/ Communities / Organizations / Applications / Grey Goo).  Check out Etherium and friends.

To get a head start on the next big thing, read Bootstrapping A Decentralized Autonomous Corporation: Part I, II, & III - by Vitalik Buterin
and other pages that strike your fancy at:
  11 Best Reads For Learning About Decentralized Applications
   https://koinify.com/blog/top-10-resources-for-understanding-decentralized-applications/

So allow me to toss my hat into the ring for the Jan 8 2015 time slot to talk about that a little bit (or with lots of luck, get someone who's actually qualified
to talk, like harry.surden at colorado.edu - see Automating Contracts - Silicon Flatirons - http://www.siliconflatirons.com/events.php?id=1541).  For now we can hand-simulate our DAC on this distributed network of state-of-the-art neural networks (that's you, folks) and in the meantime, get some Agile folks to work up the stories and outline of the Minimum Viable Product we need.

Yes, I'm not just proposing a new life for the BLUG, but a new form of life!

For bonus points, someone can automate the introduction of the speaker and administrivia via speech synthesis.  Or, to improve the usability and human factors, and really put us in our place, just provide text to be read by someone with a deep, resonant voice, preceeded by the obligatory mantra "I, for one, welcome our new Distributed Autonomous Collective Overlord".

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/