Gnomedex 2007 - Darren Barefoot
August 10th, 2007 | by Sean |Good
Economy of Language
pay by the word for telegrams
twitter-sized
Currency comparisons
$ to Canadian $ to Lire, to Linden Dollars to WoW gold
Mortality
Gravestone - He Pimped Some Software
how to revise what gets written on your tombstone
How to do good - hard to quantify
Economists and social scientists… watch out
geek-style
http://www.nabuur.com/
Moulin Wiki - offline copy of wikipedia
all contents of wikipedia on one CD
dist to people with internet but not computer
600 CDs to west africa
translate wikipedia into local languages
Denmark - 5% volunteer but fewer donate
America is the reverse
Why?
Gross National Happiness
Can we do good by making people happy
Satisfaction with Life Index - Green is the happiest
nothingbutnets.net
launch microfundraising operations in your community
givemeaning.com
Build something that helps other people do good
build something great
Darren announces his project - nothing but a thought experiment
1% of cred = a lot of staceys
DarrenBarefoot.com
www.capulet.com
ma.gnolia.com/people/Darren/tags/gnomedex



