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Vinay Gupta
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Sepp Jul 23.

Is Global Swadeshi useful?
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Check out this comparison of ning look alikes. grou.ps seems the best. It has a feature to migrate a ning group, template, content and all. http://docs.google.com/View?docID=0AXKnPEf6zXgyZGY2dzJmNWtfMTE1ZGt0M2pqZGg&revision=_latest
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So Lucas and Thomas seem to think it's worth paying for the thing to continue to exist for the time being.I think the sensible migration strategy is to PhpBB. It's a simple, reliable, easy to maintain forum system with long history, and it does 90%…
July 17
Have you got any example of a nice BuddyPress setup? I haven't seen one that makes it easy to understand what functionality BuddyPress has.
June 29
I am with Lucas on this. I'll chip in with cash for simplicity's sake.
June 24
I suspect that if we move to a WordPress based site, being open-source and relatively easy, we can either find RSS options that work out of the box, or customize something with a bit of help.
June 23
Update - we're making progress, but still looking for people with WordPress experience, to help things go smoothly. If Global Swadeshi decides to go with BuddyPress (the most promising WordPress extension), then this might be a solution: http://te…
June 23
It's been hard to pin down, maybe cos we haven't really had a hard look at the initial vision. Maybe we take it for granted, but when I looked at it again I think there's a couple of subtleties as to what it looks like, how do we get there, what's t…
June 22
So we're back to two choices - if there's a small consensus that it does *something* useful - and I'm noting that's been hard to pin down, but several people have made a simple, clear case that it's doing something which isn't being done elsewhere,…
June 22

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What's the coolest thing you've ever seen?
A certain special person smiling
What's the coolest thing you've ever dreamed?
I see cities of hand-made cardboard-and-steel houses in which the old never have to bury the young, nobody has accidents, and the harvest hasn't failed in over a hundred years.
About Me
About me.
What I'm contributing to humanity and the planet
I'm working with you on making a new lifestyle for free and independent people to practice. See http://liveunplugged.org
Website
http://hexayurt.com
Blog (some place with an RSS feed we can aggregate)
http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com
Tell us about your project/s (please include project URLs)
http://hexayurt.com - free refugee shelter, excellent reviews
http://guptaoption.com - long term policy work
http://theopentoolbox.com - consulting around open source appropriate technology and disaster response
Where are you located? (if you know LAT/LONG we will put this on a map later)
Reykjavik, Iceland
What specific skills, technologies or connections you would like to find among the Global Swadeshi Network members?
I want a good composting toilet design that can be mass manufactured for $20 per item.

I want somebody to find me a quarter of a million dollars (2007 dollars) to do a groundbreaking round of work on infrastructure.

I want to field test the Hexayurt in a real situation with TV cameras running.

Pretty short summary of how I see the world today

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At 5:42am on September 14, 2009, Andrew Durham said…
Hi, Vinay,

Please check this login problem description out:
http://globalswadeshi.ning.com/forum/topics/if-you-have-login-problems

Thanks,
Andrew
At 10:56am on September 7, 2009, Sepp said…
Hello Vinay,

looks like we have a spammer here ... what do you say?

http://globalswadeshi.ning.com/profile/wwwmakemoneywithgooglecom?xg_source=profiles_memberList
At 9:54pm on July 3, 2009, AndriusKulikauskas said…
Hi Vinay, please can you add Graham Knight diysolar AT btinternet.com as he has not been able to sign up here. Also, I'm not able to sign out of your site.
At 4:53pm on June 24, 2009, Andrew Durham said…
cool, thanks vinay. have you seen this guy's work?:
http://www.sover.net/~triorbtl
he has really perfected fuller's invention with the pieces that fill in the gaps between plywood and the fat helicopter.
At 4:25pm on June 19, 2009, Ted said…
Hi Vinay,

Sorry for the long time to respond. I rarely check this site. I am aware of the Open Source Ecology project. I support them financially. I have been up there once and am working to get out of debt so that I will be more free to be a part of things like this.
At 10:47am on May 29, 2009, Ruth Shortall said…
Hi from RVK - check these guys out, pretty cool :)
http://rainwaterclub.org/
At 2:43pm on May 7, 2009, AndriusKulikauskas said…
Vinay, I chatted with Pamela McLean today at our Worknets chat room. She says you're encouraging her and others to promote GlueSniffers and Tuttle. Can we do that on your behalf as we're promoting Mornflake cereal as well?
At 11:45am on May 6, 2009, AndriusKulikauskas said…
Hi Vinay, As you know, my lab Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt is working to promote an online video contest for Mornflake cereal http://www.mornflake.com http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?MornflakeResearch

As part of that, I'm trying to show the value of creating a "Mornflake online community news network" that encourages online community participants to promote each other's endeavors.

In particular, I'm promoting through our website MyFoodStory http://www.myfoodstory.info such as promoting Lahrana's post, see: http://www.myfoodstory.info/view.php?pagepath=New2144 and through our website ShopWithUs (for rotating ads throughout our sites) such as your post on flu masks: http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?FluPandemic/Masks which appears at http://www.shopwithus.org and is rotated through our websites.

Vinay, what's the best way at Global Swadeshi to engage people and reach out to other communities as well? Should I start a forum thread? Thank you, Andrius
At 6:12am on April 28, 2009, paul t. horan said…
Hi Vinay,

I'm hoping you might help me figure out how to find a comment to my page.

Recently, I got the following message:

Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:38 AM
subject jennifer added a comment to your page on Global Swadeshi

Jennifer added a comment to your page on Global Swadeshi

To view the new comment, visit:
http://www.globalswadeshi.net/profiles/comment/show?attachedTo=34wbuwlo64h42&attachedToType=User&commentid=chatter-2097821%3AComment%3A11731&xgsi=1

Believe it or not, I'm having no luck finding much less reading and responding to Jennifer's comment. A similar failure on my part happened several weeks ago.

Please help me. I'm feeling quite ignorant because I'm likely to be overlooking the obvious here.

Thanks,

paul
At 9:42pm on April 23, 2009, Wael Al Saad said…
Hi Vinay , am bad in politics, what about you ?
http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topics/need-your-help-cocreative
 
 
 

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