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Paul D. Fernhout <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Simulation of chaordic process
System name: simulchaord
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\"Simulation of chaordic processes\" project

This project is mainly to develop simulations of chaordic processes, 
organizations, and systems, under the GPL license, with \"chaordic\" used as 
defined by Dee Hock at http://www.chaordic.org and in his book \"Birth of the 
Chaordic Age\". The focus will be specially on computer simulations to support 
part of the goal defined here 
  http://www.chaordic.org/who_hist.html#FourCond
of: \"Development of visual and physical models of chaordic organizations so 
that people have something to examine, experiment with, and compare to existing 
organizations. The models must contain the ethical and spiritual dimensions 
generally lacking in current models. In addition, computer simulations will 
need to be created to allow people to quickly see how clarity of purpose and 
principles allow institutions to self-organize, evolve over decades, and link 
in new patterns for an enduring constructive society.\"

One can in some ways view the GPL itself as defining a constitution for a 
chaordic process of software development.

Other organizational forms such as hierarchies, meshworks, or mixes of
them may also be simulated in part to compare and contrast them with
chaordic forms. See for example Manuel de Landa\'s discussion of
\"Meshwork vs. Hierarchy\" in organizations in his book \"One Thousand
Years of Nonlinear History\". Online, see an example of his writing on 
this at:
  http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm
Another motivation is my own thinking about \"many senses of self\" -- that is, 
one individual may belong in many overlapping organizations (person, family, 
church, company, club, state, ecology, world) and may have to decide how to 
allocate their efforts across all these potentially conflicting demands. These 
issues could play an important role in illuminating chaordic decision making in 
a simulation.

The initial codebase will be in Python and will use as appropriate cross 
platform toolkit interface libraries such as the Python tkinter (Tcl/Tk) or 
wxPython (wxWindows) libraries, 
  http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/
  http://www.wxpython.org/
so it should run on GNU/Linux as well as possibly other platforms. It is 
possible versions of such simulations written for other free programming 
language systems that run on GNU/Linux such as Java, TCL, Scheme, Lisp, or 
Smalltalk may be created down the road. No dependency on non-free software is 
anticipated; dependencies on non-free software are also not permitted in a 
project hosted on Savannah.

It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.