About netrii
netrii, this site,
- is a community of people connected in any number of different ways.
- is a playground. For experimentation. Of promising ideas. By bright, like-minded people.
- is a collaboration platform . For incubating your ideas. Until you are strong enough to take wing.
- is self-governing based on DeeHock's chaordic ideas.
- is an experiment in new, equitable, meritorious ways of exchanging value. May fail. May succeed. or be in between these states. For ever. Or Not.
- is free
And you?
Browse around the different sites. If you feel connected, you have probably arrived. Want to join? Collaborate on an existing project? Start your own? Email arun.batchu@gmail.com . Join or leave or remain dormant without obligations, without expectations, without commitments, without being judged. Absolutely free.
You and we => Us, a community
We are at the most six degrees away, probably fewer than that. Lets build our "spaces". Lets share our thoughts, our ideas, help each other. Discover our strengths, diminish our weaknesses. Lets make the world a better place, by doing the things we naturally do - only a little better, a bit more transparently. Come, join - since you can always leave. We think you might want to stay. To join or for answers, email arun.batchu@gmail.com
What's in a name?
An excerpt from an email describing netrii :
I called the LLC "netrii" ... there is a bit of a story behind it, which I shall explain to you when we meet. "netri" means river, and the trailing "i" stands for several things :
information,intelligence,innovation etc. River indicates a "flow" as well as a fertile ground ( as in labs). I hope to "grow"/ (i)ncubate different product (lines) all centering around the core i's : information/intelligence/innovation . I thought of founding a 3I (like 3M - which I would like to model ) but its taken... almost every meaningful nameI could think of was taken... I finally converged ( with Rima's help) and wanted to fuse Sanskrit / English stuff ( which I am myself = an immigrant ). All great civilizations (including our very own Twin Cities ) seems to have grown on river banks ( netri ) and so too I would like to grow a few civilizations. Again, like the River, I am sure the company is going to change course and success and failure (rains and famine) will be part of the landscape...and so on. It just seemed the River seemed a good long lasting metaphor and I want to process information in an intelligent, innovative way... so there : the birth of a small idea . From now on , I need to feed it and tend to it. So, my income I shall pay a little bit myself and save a little bit so I can feed this idea. What exactly I will be doing : I am not sure...but I definitely want to make it global. I definitely want to get involved in Open source. I definitely want to make it distributed. I am putting my thoughts, on paper and at some point putting them out on the web. Like minded people will contact me and I will try to make a win-win deal out of it. I will do the planning and make some plans but am banking on the "planning" part more than the plans themselves. I am setting myself up with some goals and starting to chart the meanderings, directions of my netrii. I want to grow it. I want to evolve it. I need to come up with a successful business model, where
there is material wealth for all involved , yet spirituality ( not religion) has a role - where spirituality is a strength than a weakness. Where people are free to create and netrii;s success lies in the people's success
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