Minciu Sodas Laboratory
Grudu g 6, LT-2020
Vilnius, Lithuania


Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:14:07 -0600


From:   Andrius Kulikauskas
ms@ms.lt
Reply-To: ohs-dev@bootstrap.org
Organization: Minciu Sodas

To:     ohs-dev@bootstrap.org,
info@bootstrap.org

Subject:   Mindset = Import/Export Standard

Hi,

I'm curious if you have thought about "import/export". I think that's an important "bootstrapping" question. If it's not possible to export all of the information, it seems dubious to work hard to contribute to it. I think this is a major obstacle for using tools for organizing thoughts. Therefore our laboratory, Minciu Sodas, is developing an import/export standard MindSet,

http://www.ms.lt/mindset.html

...which makes explicit the type of structuring used: Unordered Hierarchy, Nondirected Network, Directed Network, Acyclic Network, Closed Sequence, Open Sequence. It's a modeling language for modeling our thinking. I'm very interested in comments on my draft. We have a working group

http://www.ms.lt/ourownthoughts.html

We'll now be organizing "public domain zones" focused on particular topics. Because if the material is not collected in the public domain, then again, it's useless because you can't use it freely, it's impractical to get permissions. So we're going to promote this combination: "public domain" and "import/export". I think this would be related to Bootstrap.org so if it is, please let me know.

Please write to me at ms@ms.lt

Thanks!

Sincerely,



Andrius Kulikauskas
Director
Minciu Sodas laboratory
ms@ms.lt
http://www.ms.lt
 +1 (773) 651-3785 or 586-6280
in Chicago through December