[liberationtech] economic cost of lost emails.

[Andy Isaacson]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 04:24:02PM -0300, J.M. Porup wrote:
> > Folks doing this should be cautious of being completely visible, since
> > in the hypothesized interregnum the lists of "where the knowledge from
> > the past is" will be target lists, both for the opressors to destroy and
> > for desperate exploiters to plunder.  A mix of projects --
> > 
> >  - some with explicit locations like "these coordinates"
> >  - some with vague lists like "200-300 locations in the continental US"
> >  - some with no presence at all
> > 
> > is best.
> > 
> > Other information to consider including --
> > 
> >  - software implementations (the Debian archive and source code)
> >  - human language references
> >  - scientific datasets and paper archives
> >  - scientific source code and reproducibility instructions
> >  - farming data and scientific methods
> >  - practical how-to information such as Farmer's Almanac
> > 
> > -andy
> 
> Anyone know any dissident billionaires willing to fund such a
> project? Maybe Pierre Omidyar would be interested...

We need a Long Knowledge team.  (Maybe Long Now would be interested.)

Renegate Librarians to help us collate, arrange, choose, and index the
knowledge.

Data storage research into ways to store data for the long term, with
bootstrapping help for from-scratch informationseekers.

Collections Curators to assemble the desired information on a yearly
basis for the next crop of seeds.

Distributed Storage networking for online collaboration on all the
above.

Independent Planters creating their own instantiations of the seeds
(using disparate funding) to store in locations worldwide and off planet
against future disasters.

and other specialties not yet enumerated ...

-andy