The Open Idea Project is an open content thinktank. The project is based around a growing suite of networked collaboration and archiving tools, and people willing to devote some time to cothinking on diverse problems.

The OIP uses a license designed to keep the information we generate in the public domain, along with derivative works. This is not an attempt to prevent capitalization on these ideas, it is an attempt to make useful thinking available to anyone. Lucas Gonzalez, one of the Project's founders, has coined the term "cothink", "copensar" in Spanish, that describes the process that we are trying to facilitate.

We are still in the "defining" stage of the Project, we've got work done on our Mission Statement, and have been testing and beginning to modify Zope tools, like Squishdot, Zwiki, and Chat. We are interested in working with any tool developers that are making collaboration and mindmap tools, especially tools written in Python, or readily adaptable to the Zope server.

The Project's intent, as stated, is to serve as a free service for providing critical thinking on essentially any problem. When subjects are outside the OIP community's knowledge, we will provide initial research, and help people to find qualified people to participate in the analysis.

The product of a cothinking session or project, will be detailed analyses of the issues presented, and will include both discussions and white papers. Our analyses will be provided on the network for free, and on other media at media cost. Mirroring our datasets (once the system is in place)is encouraged.

Please, look through the discussions on both the Squishdot and Zwiki interfaces. Post any questions you have here, and OIP members will help fill in the details.

-Josh Gigantino

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