Platform roadmap

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A Platform is an organisational system that strives for a complete description of the roles, resources and processes that it comprises.

That doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense... maybe base on w:system, w:organisation and w:Organizational communication

People use the organisation to achieve their goals in working together. Platforms work in accord with the principles of the project by incorporating the qualities of all aspects changeable and think global, act local.

The Platform is a specific kind of business template, tightly integrated with the Peer interface, which allows easy management of multiple outlets and network organisations. This means that the Peer will offer workspaces which allow standard office work to be done, such as word processing, spreadsheets or image editing and it will also serve as an operating system as well as a business system environment and content management system which includes all role, process and resource descriptions of the organisation in the form of an evolving, dynamic template.

The first business to be based on the Platform template will be Organic Design. Organic Design will effectively be field-testing and troubleshooting the business template and also leading by example in its implementation of the Peer software and integrated business systems templates.

• Platforms and Platform network
• templates implementaing the project goals
• It is actually the notion of a Platform that Organic Design will become an instance of such a template, and is helping to define it. It will begin trading when its definition is complete enough for it to carry on its operations from it.

Business related Peers which are real-world organisations.

Interface

Just like all Peer interfaces, Platform Control will exhibit blue, red and green aspects. This is the portal to the platform-based organisation, where everything runs together and which is used to run the organisation. The true test of the effectiveness of this interface will be whether someone (or a team) with no prior context could run the organisation using it. Platform Control is an internal interface which is seen by team members, for the public there will be a different view available.

The "blue" aspect (knowledge/global) contains information about the platform, relevant research, values statements and links to related organisations as well as the overall goals of the platform network. There is is a definition of the organisational structure the local organisation would like to move toward, this is expressed in terms of products and services as well as roles and resources.

In the red section we find the timeline of the local organisation, which gives access to the schedule as well as past and future activities and events within it. Here we find the necessary filters and reports to give us a good understanding of what is happening with the organisation in terms of time. News and updates will also be available through the red section. Currently timeline views are fragmented into email inboxes, wiki-recentchanges, spreadsheets and scheduling applications. These are unified in the red section, which is also where the creation process happens. This is handled through the process of nodal reduction at the nodal root and consists of roles completing tasks at the level of organisations.

In "green" we have access to the local aspects of the organisation and can see its current state in terms of roles and resources. This allows for the management of local infrastructure and other resources. Proper accounting and a complete organisational description allow us to see the current state accurately (sight/awareness) and take this into account when moving toward the goals defined in "blue". For an existing organisation wishing to implement the platform template in order to gain a unified organisational interface, the green interface section is filled in via the process of "Borgification". This is a service performed by a Consultant, assisted by an Operator who can aid the process from any Pglatform via a control uplink established from within the organisation about to be borgified.

Organisation

The platforms are to be systems which are designed by the peer interface and as such, all meetings, presentations, seminars and other kinds of events are organised collaboratively in the interface.

Media channels

Platforms and sanctuaries both exhibit an educational aspect as part of their system design. This is accessed as channels of information and media such as documentaries or platform news/newsletters. These channels ensure that all members have a good shared context and are all up to speed with their plans and current state of affairs. The project's channels will include many documentaries about the state of the world and the conceptual nature of how these ways have come to dominate as well as about the many groups which are successfully making a positive difference and their common patterns of success.

Related Concepts

• Platform Control
• Platform network
• Channel

Variations

• Sanctuary

Organisations that will be based on the Platform template

• Organic Design
• Adeft

Alternative names

After these concepts have been migrated to the peer interface, all aspects will be changeable, including the name.

• "Outpost" - based on Post-carbon Institute definition
• "Headquarters" - good in the sense that it conveys the notion of a place where everything runs together, although this name may imply centralisation