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As homework, each person who wishes to learn this should write a glossary of the new terms and titles, with their meanings, from this Lesson. If the terms are understood, the whole system is pretty much easily understood.
There is a critical mass size to the group which starts the Geonet. This is for two reasons; first, a smaller group will find no justification for becoming a Geonet, because they will not have either the many voices and points of view which give a Geonet it's ability to find appropriate problems to solve and make good decisions, (The Geonet will seem like a complex and unnecessary structure of useless protocols) and second, the synergy of a small group will not draw in new members, and thus stagnate into nonexistence. After critical mass is gained, how many members the Geonet has at any time will not be as relevant, growth will not be required but will continue.
(Volunteers needed) The first step for the Geonet has to be the formation of a Startup Project of volunteers who will set up the Non-profit charter of the Geonet, create the General Archives, and find a volunteer group of net programmers who, as another aspect of the Startup Project, will develop the software needed by the Geonet. (Programmers: Please contact me if you would like to work on this software in a team setting. It requires donated time, not paid time, because the Geonet must start without debt to anyone or any institution. Volenteers and donated funding is fine, but no financial debts can be allowed.) Research must be done in terms of the financial arrangements for Geonet accounts, including the individual member accounts, and any legal complexities must be sorted out and adapted to. When the Geonet system is a going operation, then the Startup Project will be dissolved into the general Geonet.
The initial member setup of the Geonet will have to occur in physically local areas, like in cities and towns, with 42 members as the initial group, an O-team. When an O-team is set up, it first must self educate in the workings of the system, set up the financial system of member accounts, and become licensed under the non-profit status of the Geonet as a whole. Then it must take on a small local task, and set up a small Project to do the work. According to how much money has been donated by the members into their I-Team accounts, this project can be either completely donated work from the members of the O-Team or be a paid project contracting an outside company. But some things must be assured. The Project must fulfill the demands of the Non-profit charter of the Geonet and all record keeping must be kept up to date and published in the General Archive. The reason for the local task is to show that the system is working, that the individuals within the O-team understand and are committed to doing the Geonet, and to find any glitches within the system's software. Then the local O-team can hook up to other O-teams in other parts of the world through the Internet, to form larger modes and work on larger problems.
The method of growth after the initial setup is Nature's own. Nature uses multiplication by division. That is, for instance, how cellular growth progresses. A cell divides, grows to full size, and divides again. The Geonet I-teams will be like cells, they will grow to full membership, 12 members, then when a 13th member joins, the I-team will divide into two I-teams of 9 members and one I-team of 8 members. Then the addition of new members will fill in the gaps, and there are once again 12 members in each I-team. When visualizing this process, it is important to realize that each member connects two I-teams, so the actual number of members is not the addition of two teams, but the links between two teams. In the case of the two 9 member I-teams, right after division, the number of members who connect those two I-teams is 5 members, and the numbers which connect each of the two 9 member I-teams to the new 8 member I-team is 4 each. This leaves 3 empty slots in the 9 member I-teams and 4 empty slots in the 8 member I-team.
The number to create the critical mass for local efforts will likely be 6 or more I-teams, which is the first resolution beyond the I-team, the O-team. The O-team is a complete unit made up of interlinked members, with the first appearance of synergy in the structure, whereas any less than that is too incomplete to generate synergy. The critical mass, then, would be 42 members, 30 interior members and 15 members who would link to larger resolutions.
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