Sent 1 - Joel West, Ph.D. - 3.19.09

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=Email= Joel,

I saw your work on the P2P Foundation site. Allow me to introduce our work. We are building the world's first, replicable, open source, off-grid, Global Village. P2P Foudnation called us the 'most important social experiment in the world.'

Please view our Distillations videos - http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Distillations

It was also said that we've got the "next best thing since the coming of Christ and the horseless carriage - combined." I'd like to hear your comments, as we're doing market research regarding the relevance of our work to modern society.

If you agree with our claim, please subscribe (http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Open_Source_Ecology:Site_support ). If not, please tell us what we are missing in general, and would be more convincing to you regarding our relevance.

Marcin

=Response= Marcin,

Thanks for writing. I'm probably not the right person to assess your project and its progress. It's been a while since I've had biology and I usually spend my waking moments thinking about ICT rather than DNA.

Also, I have an inherently narrow view of "open source" as being something that conforms to the OSI definition rather than broader applications to areas outside ICT.

However, I wish you well in your progress. In some ways, it sounds like something Heinlein might have predicted (although perhaps aboard a space ship or moon base).

Joel