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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Gary Schiltz <gary@naturesvisualarts.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, June 8, 2020 at 10:45 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] [Swarm-directors] today's meeting, and call for vote on proposal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm not part of Swarm, but hope you guys decide not to disband. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 12:41 PM glen ep ropella <<a href="mailto:gepr@tempusdictum.com">gepr@tempusdictum.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That's convincing, Jim. I also vote "no". <br>
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I'd like to know what the mission is, even if it's only to fold and disperse the funds.<br>
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On 6/8/20 10:21 AM, James J Anderson wrote:<br>
> I agree with Steve that bringing attention to SDG is not a very useful result. Even if there is a way for Netlogo to acknowledge a $10k donation, a link to the existing Swarm website is not going to impress. In particular, if we do decide to be absorbed into
an active organization, what is the value of shining attention to SDG if it then disappears? <br>
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> As we go forward to extinction or invigoration might we first consider our assets and how they might be leveraged to some purpose. The only tangible asset is the $40K in the bank. Intangible assets are a shared history and disjoint but overlapping activities
in ABM. Splitting up the funds is the easy part, Making more of SDG requires a vision, agreement and individual commitments of time. But I don't see that we can do all this before the end of the voting period. We have created a false deadline for ourselves. <br>
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> I vote no for this round.<br>
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> I do hope we can revisit Steve's proposal after we have some better resolution of the future of SDG. <br>
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