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== If you want to contribute, milliongenerations currently needs ==
== If you want to contribute, milliongenerations currently needs ==


- Ideas and support for the [[Milliongenerations:How can there be most happiness? | 'How can there be most happiness?']] competition
* An inventory of human motivations (such as [[status]]) that drive society/[[civilization]] and could be used to estabilsh [[Bill of Rights of Future Generations | rights for future people]] or [[Actions to be taken to achieve a sustainable civilization| implement]] [[Conditions of sustainable civilizations | lasting societies]]


- Ideas of how and where to start a [[Milliongenerations:Stone clock project | Stone Clock]] project and backers of such a project
* Examples of art, monuments or other work created for the benefit of others, preferably future others, rather than for the status of their makers or the glory of their patrons. (The [http://www.delettersvanutrecht.nl/en Letters of Utrecht] claim an ambition in this direction.)


- Better ways to explain and [[Milliongenerations:Communication of milliongenerations.org | communicate]] the [[Questions|questions]] and [[Milliongenerations:purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]]
* Ideas on what one would want to [[ideas to convey for the benefit of a future civilization|convey for the benefit of a future civilization]], so that it could last (thx, CM May11)


- Contributors who share and advance the [[Milliongenerations:purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]] of Million Generations, who pose or answer [[Questions|questions]] or otherwise reflect on the [[assumption]]  
* Better ways to explain and [[Milliongenerations:Communication of milliongenerations.org | communicate]] the [[Questions|questions]] and [[Milliongenerations:purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]]


- Discussions and ideas about the [[Milliongenerations:environment for the contributions|environment]] that would be more suited to the [[Milliongenerations:purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]], i.e. about how the site should be organized 
* Ideas on [[ways to preserve ideas]] one would want to convey to a [[ideas to convey for the benefit of a future civilization| future civilization]], so that such future civilization could benefit from them (thx, TD May11)


- Ways to realize and implement the desired [[Milliongenerations:environment for the contributions|environment]]
* Help with conceptual refinement and implementation of the [[Milliongenerations:Guided Research Project | Guided Research Project ]]  


- [[Milliongenerations:Site support | Funds]] and ideas on ways to raise funds
* Ideas and support for the [[Milliongenerations:How can there be most happiness? | 'How can there be most happiness?']] - see also the [http://mosthappiness.be dedicated site]


- A public relations strategy and ways to  [[Milliongenerations:Communication of milliongenerations.org | communicate]] the existence of milliongenerations.org and encourage meaningful contributions.
* [[Talk:Humans | Means to communicate]] that "there is only one type of [[humans|human]] on earth"


- A video presentation communicating that "there is only one type of [[humans|human]] on earth" e.g.,
* Contributors who share and advance the [[Milliongenerations:purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]] of Million Generations, who pose or answer [[Questions|questions]] or otherwise reflect on the [[assumption]]  
* showing different faces (e.g., similar to [http://www.6billionothers.org/ 6 milliards d'autres] and videos [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktlwCPDd94 (1,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCG4qryy1Dg 2)] of the [http://charterforcompassion.org/ Charter for Compassion])
* reflecting on
** ideas about ancestry and posterity on the scale of a few hundered years (tell me which group has no ancestors in a few hundered years)
** that no two are identical
** that our  "hardwired" and easily self-reinforcing tendency to divide into groups can dangerously be exploited
** that this division into groups can be achieved on the basis of arbitrary and irrelevant "characteristics"   
** that we use the the same brain cells to think about us and members of our "group" and different brain cells for members of other groups 
** examples of rapid mixing of different groups e.g., the continuum of people of indigenous and African descent in Cuba     
- This could also take the form of video statements of different people asked to react to or debate the statement that "there is only one type of human on earth"   


- Background, links to [[related topics]] or similar [[purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]]
* Discussions and ideas about the [[Milliongenerations:environment for the contributions|environment]] that would be more suited to the [[Milliongenerations:purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]], i.e. about how the site should be organized 


- A function for notes, references and external links such as the one used in [http://www.wikipedia.org/ wikipedia] articles
* Ways to realize and implement the desired [[Milliongenerations:environment for the contributions|environment]]


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* [[Milliongenerations:Site support | Funds]] and ideas on ways to raise funds
 
* A public relations strategy and ways to  [[Milliongenerations:Communication of milliongenerations.org | communicate]] the existence of milliongenerations.org and encourage meaningful contributions.
 
* Background, links to [[related topics]] or similar [[purpose of milliongenerations.org|purpose]]
 
* Help with implementation of the [[Milliongenerations:Stone clock project | Letters Project / Poem without End ]] or similar efforts elsewhere. Improve on the [http://www.delettersvanutrecht.nl/en Letters of Utrecht]
 
* A function for notes, references and external links such as the one used in [http://www.wikipedia.org/ wikipedia] articles
 
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Revision as of 15:03, 25 March 2020

milliongenerations' offline meetings

Meetings were & will be held to conceive and implement concepts for the organization of the milliongenerations.org effort or to advance its cause and content. Dates, invitations and notes on these Meetings are found on the community portal.

If you want to contribute, milliongenerations currently needs

  • Examples of art, monuments or other work created for the benefit of others, preferably future others, rather than for the status of their makers or the glory of their patrons. (The Letters of Utrecht claim an ambition in this direction.)
  • Contributors who share and advance the purpose of Million Generations, who pose or answer questions or otherwise reflect on the assumption
  • Discussions and ideas about the environment that would be more suited to the purpose, i.e. about how the site should be organized
  • Funds and ideas on ways to raise funds
  • A public relations strategy and ways to communicate the existence of milliongenerations.org and encourage meaningful contributions.
  • A function for notes, references and external links such as the one used in wikipedia articles
  • ..

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