Day One (or day 10,001)

A quick introduction, my name is Kallen Williams, I'm what you'd call a person who hasn't committed his life to 'getting by' with an office job. My life has been an on-going process of investigating what makes the world, and the society around me tick.

Such a life does present unique and also common challenges. For all intents and purposes I'm an artist who uses his mind to explore and unravel the unknowns and the 'truths' that are given to explain the unknowns.

I am 38 years old now, which seems pretty old to me, and find myself after 10 years of self employment as a computer technician, facing 'what really makes my life worth-while'. Yes, I've spent the last 2-3 years playing WOW (world of Warcraft) because in many ways that technological environment comes closest to what I envision as the transcending path education and information needs to take.

How so? First, the immediate real time communication that occurs between people in groups (guilds) to achieve goals is one of the vital dynamics required to make any knowledge receivable. For the very same reason that overhead notes for a high school economics class will almost never lead to real learning.

Today however, after 10 years of investigating, reading, learning and creative thinking, I have realized that this is the number one important thing in my life. Mixing or creating electronic music, creating pen and ink art are also up on the list but nothing else will make the largest positive impact on the world and individual's lives.

I have been investigating going the non-profit route, and it would appear that i will not be able to go that route else risk the loss of future development once a few steps are taken and the collective board decides its accomplished enough.

My vision sees the development of new data-basing and information infrastructures once the basic basic basic item achieves an appropriate number of user's seats (or park benches, reclining sofas, under warm duvets).

Number one issue comes down to lack of money, that's the downside to taking the time in life to just enjoy and appreciate the world around you and taking the time to really critically look at ones self and the universe as it happens. Its a good thing that good ideas are discovered through the self-created currency of curiosity.

I am not a programmer, so building this tool on my own doesn't seem realistic time wise. My job right now is to help others drink the electric kool-aid (as it were) and see my vision. I need to build a team of like minded people who believe anything can be created.

I do not believe that course management software really does anything to advance education, all it does is shift papers from on desk to another inside the same dismal institution, ultimately changing nothing for the better.

Needed to start is a creative programmer, and 1 assistant to help me organize my focus. From there, a larger team will be built including a financial adviser, education adviser, grant writer-fundraiser, a software development team (including a database specialist, p2p specialist, people experienced in client-server based systems, among others) and market facilitators.

It's a struggle to get things started, but ultimately this is my main life goal. I am looking for anyone who is willing to help or knows someone that could contribute ideas or information to this project.