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Subject: [humanmarkup-comment] Fwd: Re: Fw: Diplomacy, America's Image,and HumanML
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:27:54 -0800
To: susan.turnbull@gsa.gov
From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Diplomacy, America's Image, and HumanML
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Susan,
Thanks for getting back to us. Right now we are in crunch time, working on getting our first formal Requirements document ready to announce, so I probably won't get back to reviewing this until next week. Collaboration is one of my personal paramount concerns.
Ciao,
Rex
Ranjeeth and Rex,
We're just getting started in a collaborative space at our workshop
(quickplace) on Tuesday. Perhaps you'd like to join our workshop next week
via audio conferencing. See Owen's message below. Bob Andrew introduced
collaborative tools to Mobil oil. Perhaps by joining our collaborative
expedition journey (via audio conferencing, web conferencing, and our face
to face workshops, when possible) you could get some ideas of how to
address your diplomatic interests and Owen's interest in humanmarkup
language elements to enhance the potential of collaborative spaces in
trust/transparency dimensions. You're invited. I apologize if I
neglected to add you to the listserv. We struggled earlier with audio
conferencing, but I'm willing to try. It was hard for remote listeners to
hear everybody - and disruptive trying to send the mics around fast enough.
Please let me know soon, because I need to set up the audio conferencing.
I'm also exploring a second space (movabletype.org) which is both open
source and XML. I learned yesterday that its a dream to use for blind lynx
users. It's a dream for me to use in terms of posting reference links for
use during a teleconference (to get on the same page). I feel the
publishing power of a webmaster - without having to learn html. It's at
http://people.internet2.edu/~gbh/coexp. The space was established by my
co-chair, George Brett, Internet2.
Below is the full agenda, including the URL to our collaborative space.
Please join. You're welcome learn from our experiences here.
I really do have some more feedback to your scenario. I apoloqize for
getting behind. Moving into this space will reduce my workshop overhead
time tremendously.
Susan B. Turnbull
Senior Program Advisor
Next Generation Strategies
Office of Governmentwide Policy
US General Services Administration
p 202.501.6214
f 202.219.1533
susan.turnbull@gsa.gov
Greetings!
The new Universal Access Collaboration Expedition Workshops website is now
operational. We've set up a Request to Join process whereby you will be
able to choose your own username. We will then add you as a member with a
temporary password, and you can go to the Members page to change this
password to one you'd prefer, in order to keep the number of
username/password pairs to as few as possible. Once you've been added as
a member, you will be receiving a weekly newsletter each Monday morning
which will show you new content. We've also set up the space so people
can browse our meeting notes and reference links without joining. We look
forward to continuing conversations online between workshops, particularly
your ideas for future workshops. Check out the useful tutorial at this
site. In addition, Bob Andrew and Karl Hebenstreit, our experienced hosts,
will guide us as at the March 19 workshop as we get underway. Please bring
your laptop with ethernet card, if available. One laptop/table will
enable us to gain experience in this web space during the workshop.
http://ioa-qpnet-co.gsa.gov/UA-Exp
Please don't forget to RSVP for the March 19 workshop and let me know if
you would like to order a lunch. Here's the details:
Please join us for the next Collaboration Expedition Workshop on Tuesday,
March, 19, 2002 from 10 AM - 4 PM at NSF. The details are below.
Please RSVP to me by COB Friday, March 15 at mailto:susan.turnbull@gsa.gov
to ensure entry into the building.
Please also indicate if:1) you would like me to order a lunch @$8.00 for you (sandwich and
beverage)
2) you will bring your bag lunch; or
3) you won't be joining us for lunch
Regards,
Susan Turnbull
202-501-6214
Visitor badge and entry procedures:1. Go to main NSF bldg. at 4201 Wilson Blvd. (Stafford I Building). Enter
around the corner at the
NSF visitor entrance at N. Stuart and Ninth Sts. After receiving
visitor badge, go to
4121 Wilson Blvd. (Stafford II Building), Fifth floor, Room 555
Traveling by --
2. Car: Parking lot below the Stafford II building, entrance on Wilson
Blvd.
3. Subway: Ballston metro station - exit to right along N. Stuart. Walk
one
block to main NSF entrance at N. Stuart and Ninth Sts, Ballston, VA.
UA Collaboration Expedition Workshop #11
March 19, 2002
National Science Foundation
Stafford II Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555
Workshop Purpose:
To explore the potential and realities of community life today. How can
intentional communities help us appreciate near-term implications of
citizen-centric government, volunteerism, and multi-stakeholder
collaborative partnerships?
9:30 AM Coffee
10:00 AM Welcome - Susan Turnbull, GSA, George Brett, Internet2 (
www.internet2.edu/e2epi) and Tony Stanco, Cyberspace Policy
Institute, George Washington University
10:05 AM Introduction to the new collaborative tool of our UA Expedition
community ? Bob Andrew, ICF Consulting (Note: Please bring a
laptop with ethernet card, if available ? one web browsing device
per table is needed)
10:15 AM Cohousing Communities in the USA: A Community Building Ethic for
Well-being?Tom Lofft, Cohousing Network, www.cohousing.org
11:00 AM Adding Up the Common Elements of Successful Communities: What are
the Dimensions in the Physical World and in the Cyber World that
Matter? - Dialogue led by Bob Andrew, ICF Consulting
11:35 AM Community Building for Well-being: Bringing Communities the
Real-Time Information Needed for Shared Environmental Stewardship
- Denise Shaw, Environmental Protection Agency
12:20 PM Who is Here? Who is Missing from this Dialogue?
12:40 PM Lunch (bring your own bag lunch or RSVP for sandwich & beverage
$8.00 cost/person)
1:00 PM Open Networking
2:00 PM Overview of Open Source Applications at the Bureau of the Census:
A Distributed Peer Production Model Responsive to Communities -
Lisa Nyman, Census Bureau and Rachael LaPorte Taylor, Census
Bureau
3:00 PM Overview of Open Source Data Base Server at Census, - Marten
Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB.
4:00 PM Adjourn - Next worskhop on April 16
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"Owen Ambur" To: lillyjr@state.gov, "Susan Turnbull" <susan.turnbull@GSA.GOV>
<ambur@erols. cc:
com> Subject: Fw: Diplomacy, America's Image, and HumanML
03/14/2002
09:07 AM
Jacqui, having noticed your affiliation in your RSVP to Susan, I thoughtperhaps this might be of interest.
Susan, if Ranjeeth is not already aware of the dialogue that Bob Andrew
will be leading on the "Common Elements of Successful Communities," it
might be worth giving him a heads-up. If the term "community" isinterpreted to mean "humankind, worldwide as well as locally" the thrust of
Bob's dialogue may be virtually the same at the intent of HumanML.
Owen
----- Original Message -----
From: Owen Ambur
To: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga ; Rex Brooks
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:52 AM
Subject: Diplomacy, Americas Image, and HumanML
Ranjeeth & Rex, Al Kamen's "In the Loop" column in yesterday's edition of
The Washington Post prompts this message. The article is at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17220-2002Mar12.html See
especially the following passages:
"The State Department's been casting about for better ways to project
America's image abroad."
"... Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Charlotte Beers, the former
advertising executive in charge of the conference."
"... April 8-10 meeting . . . will improve our ability to convey our
policies and values to foreign audiences."
"... even the best public relations work won't solve vexing problems that
reflect serious and fundamental policy disagreements ..."
It is my hope and expectation that HumanML will eventually contribute
significantly to the need to specify (make explicit) the elements of
"policy disagreements" and, thereby, help to reduce them to truly
"fundamental" human values, attributes, and needs upon which it will be
virtually impossible to disagree.
http://xml.gov/scripts/efforts_detail.cfm?EffortID=23 In the meantime, I
fear that those who are looking for PR-related shortcuts may be wasting
the taxpayers' money, if not also further aggravating the cynicism (and
hatred) of our "adversaries" (real and imaginary). Thankfully, Secretary
Rumsfeld pulled the plug on DoD's proposed propaganda shop. While there
is no doubt about our need to "communicate" more effectively, I submit
that, in the long run, there are no shortcuts and that only the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth will set us free from tyranny and
terrorism.
Owen Ambur, Co-Chair
XML Working Group
http://xml.gov/
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