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Subject: [humanmarkup-comment] Re: USA Freedom Corps
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: Owen Ambur <ambur@erols.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:13:34 -0800
Title: Re: USA Freedom Corps
Thanks, Owen,
You're right. Humanmarkup as a means fits the description. I have
to wonder whether anyone really wants an actual method, though. I
suppose the challenge now is to call them on it. What we need to do is
to get in contact with this office and let them know that if they want
to transition into practical action, we're here to say that there is
really no excuse to merely study. We're ready to start building the
language they need to put these concepts into effect. We are at the
Requirements Writing Stage. I capitalize that for the members of our
TC to whom I have copied this. We have a meeting this week, and a
deadline target of March 31, 2002 to complete this phase of our work.
We also have a number of other initiatives in the works, both within
the TC and through our Non-Profit Corporation, whose IRS status should
get a ruling soon. I would be copying this to the IRS if they had
email, but they have strategically crippled or insulated themselves
from such considerations.
I would love to spend all of my time on this, but a regular
income is needed until we can find a way to pay ourselves to devote
our energies to this effort for as long as it takes to get it into a
stable ongoing concern,
Ciao,
Rex
At 4:52 PM -0500 3/17/02, Owen Ambur wrote:
Rex &
Ranjeeth, before today I would not have equated the Bush
Administration's community service/volunteers initiative with an
opportunity for HumanML. However, the following passages in an
article in today's edition of The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38998-2002Mar16.html suggest that it might
be:
"Its goal sounds
utopian ... finding a role for the feds in the creation of human
happiness, and helping Americans live what the ancient philosophers
called 'the good life'."
"The challenge is
how you take some of the ideas of what the good society is and apply
it ...."
"... the goal is to
... 'a civic switchboard connecting people with
opportunities'."
Those sound
to me like requirements statements for HumanML. Without
HumanML or something very much like it that renders explicit the data
elements that are implicit, it seems to me that the imitative
will amount to little more than so much talk and
"politics as usual" -- both of which may be satisfying for
some folks in the short run but neither of which make a lasting
contribution to the good of humankind in the long
run.
Owen
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