About

Starting some notes about the org to evolve into discussed useful documents (this is just at the stage of internal notes requiring a lot of shared context)

Organic Design Limited

An organisation set up by me (Aran) to support the development of the project and so be a legal trading entity that could be paid for performing services in the field. This didn't quite work out since my bankruptcy has had more lasting effects than expected, and also development work has been far more intense than expected.

The Project

The big-picture project of which the Yi is an instance of an attempted solution, ie supplying tools to the common people allowing them to grow organisation in accord with the fundamental patterns. Organic Design is an org that is set up like a "branch office" to carry out work on behalf of the project in this region covered by its nodes.

Peer

Most of the development strands are focussed on the peer. This is the full p2p network operating system built on The Nodal Model. It is designed to be widely available using any OS/interface environments, but to be capable of working completely independently as well using its own Linux destribution called Peerix. This is an interface designed for non-IT-specialists to design and maintain any kind organisations in an extremely efficient and sustainable manor while inherently increasing co-operation, re-use and growth.

XmlWiki

This is a collaborative development environment built on top of the freely available wiki software called MediaWiki which was designed for the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. We have found that existing solutions like Source Forge are excellent for raw programming, but are too complex and rigid for conceptual development or other use by non-developers. With XmlWiki, we've combined the programming features we needed into the more adaptable wiki environment allowing us to evolve the environment to our needs as we go.

The purpose of XmlWiki has always been to be a temporary stepping stone into the new environment. We were unable to progress on the peer-environment effectively without an existing, but adjustable environment to work togther in.

The peer and XmlWiki enviornments are closely linked as far as content goes, but most actual programming development is wasted going into XmlWiki and should instead be put into peer-based solutions.