We are the organizers and attendees of Program For The Future 2008 (http://programforthefuture.org).

From that conference, we have a set of initiatives and a growing community - all whose shared objective is to help bring about teamwork and massive collaboration on a global scale in order to avert planetary disaster - the vision that inspired Doug Engelbart to invent the mouse, hypertext, windowed computer interaction, multimedia, outline processing, wikis, and even more innovations the world hasn't yet widely seen. Doug's vision included many non-technical innovations - iterations and agility, human and tool system co-evolution to bootstrap development of both, and models for how collaboration programs ought to be run.

We intend to take Doug's ideas, and extend them, and realize them.

Please let us know if a (not yet assessed) small membership fee is objectionable to you - to offset this Meetup, and to finance other activities. We're still trying to figure out much to charge (likely somewhere $2 to $5 per month).