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#Concepts

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I, Chris Mann, am a Project Creator and recreator. When your project is down in the dumps, I will energize it with meaning.

Typically, you may be familiar with job titles "Project Manager," "Project Director," "Project Management Officer" and the like. These people usually manage people and tension around a project. My center is on the project, and I do manage it around persons and constraints, and I also create (and even recreate).

You may be familiar too with the terms "Research and Development," "Inventor," "Creative Director," "Créatifs," "Product Developer," "Computer Programmer," "Business Developer," "Organizational Consultant," "Author," "Conceptor" and the like that are all synonyms for the term "Creator." I don't think about that because I create.

What do I create? You ask. I really don't know until it's created, but is will probably work and probably will add value. As in all creation, there is an element of risk, but we do try and manage that in Project Creation.

The talents I use to create projects are digital and organizational.

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Hybrid presence and video meetings

The goal of hybrid meetings in presence and video is to make sure that when two people are in the room together, it disturbs everyone. We deploy everything necessary to make this a reality, so that the synchronous notion of the meeting is felt as much by the people in presence as by the people in video. To do this, we focus on four flows and three imperatives. The four streams are: audio input…
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ResDigita.com

ResDigita.com is about sharing resources in a rational and trusted manner. Other articles related to ResDigita are: Shared Digital Resources Cloud Sharing Needs You! LesGrandsVoisins.fr/.com The Making of a Maker's Space at la Ressourcerie la Mine Video Conferencing Indirect references include: Digital Inclusion Computer Lab & Drive Self-Contained Amazon Echo Show Mini-Video-Conference Device…
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Caplancity.com

Caplancity.com is a website dedicated to the Caplancity concept. The Caplancity concept is about capacity rationalisation or planification. Capacity is about time, competency and resources. Articles relative to capacity planning tools and techniques are: Time Accounting Time Travel Redmine Taskjuggler Articles related to abilities are: Digital Boot Camp Digital Inclusion DIgital Articles related…
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FocusPlex.com

FocusPlex on FocusPlex.com is about focus in complexities through the use of markdown and other file formats in folder hierarchies in a codified manner with a ubiquitous synchronization mechanism. My implementations of FocusPlex are file-and-folder hierarchies in synchronized folders that are accessible through web renditions. I use each one of them to manage my reference documents, my task…
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ConfigMagic.com

ConfigMagic.com is a website for configuration management of all kinds! Now where did I put that? What was that password again? Did I do that? ConfigMagic tries to answer these questions we ask ourselves, our providers, our coworkers and more. Ambitions of this website are to : Document the architecture of deployed computer software and systems Document where the passwords are and how to get to…
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WhoWhatEtc.com

Who What Etc on whowhatetc.com is an innovative super-charged hashtag system that I use to organize my disorganization. It is based on nine key folders: Who, What, Whence, Where, Why, When, Way, Wealth and Wisedom. The purpose of these nine folders are to describe discrete and unmistakeable categories for different types of reference information. FocusPlex Implementation of WhoWhatEtc…
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TaskWhy.com

TaskWhy on Taskwhy.com is a system for managing inter-related tasks. In its simplest implementation, TaskWhy is a series of folders, one per category, with contained folders: one per task. Initially, my categories were the Deming wheel: plan, do, check and act. I would move the tasks from one category to the other with defined processes for each folder. I am now settled on the top-level…
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Pre-Inaugoration of the Makers' Lab at la Ressourcerie la Mine

Automatic translation At our meeting on September 23, we learned that the fablab (computer aided manufacturing workshop) had its first official visits on Friday September 20 from our board and employees. We did our best to make it clean and presentable. Many machines are still to be mastered. That's it, we are now "a thing"! In addition, we are in the process of drawing up a charter and a working…
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Le Grand Website

Automatic Translation This is a perfectible website concept, but perhaps sufficient for a collaboration around the Grands Voisins. It is therefore a matter of creating a space with multiple shares, with potentially multiple users, with multiple uses and multiple accesses. The problem to be solved is with using a website for ourselves on our own, a useful site for ourselves with today's…
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Cloud Sharing Needs You!

Files disappear! The solution? The Cloud. Cloud services save all your files in real-time ! And your computer and your cloud are always synchronised ! . Never again will your files be lost. Cloud services are not free. But hey can be cheaper : we at Mann.fr propose that we buy these services by groups of three or four users. For example, Office 365 costs 80 euros per year for one person or 10…
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Time Travel

I am good at capacity planning (think of it as time accounting). It is a technique wherein I clear cost and profit centers around person-days. The technique, through iterative process, allows for the production of reliable capacity-constrained time accounts: past, present and provisional. Here is how it works: I establish a task nomenclature for all activities by everyone, as large as possible…
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ConfigMagic.com

ConfigMagic.COM is an idea about tools and practices for configuration management. See the blog article on using GIT for personal configuration management. Specific Configurations to Document VC.LesGrandsVoisins.FR Configuration for this JitSi server is here: https://hackmd.io/@lesgrandsvoisins/SJs4b0dO8 MANN.FR Content Management I use https://edu.pixton.com/ for generating comics with the…
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TaskWhy.com

TaskWhy is a simple software idea, but I found that Workflowy.com did basicly the same thing, so I let it go. A Task.How is a an indefinate verb phrase (in the form “do something” such as “buy milk”) that you provide. The software provides context by associating other Task.Hows for you in a to-do structure (in the form “to achieve something do take some intermediate step” such as “to go grocery…
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Redmine Taskjuggler

Redmine Taskjuggler was a Redmine Plugin that round-tripped with Taskjuggler to produce release schedule forecasts based on capacity planning in full-information timesheets taking into account revenue effects in clearing between profit centers and cost centers. redmine_taskjuggler on Redmine PluginTaskjuggler wiki redmine_taskjuggler on GitHub
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Drawing Board

These projects are “on the drawing board.” ConfigMagic.com Etrangers.com AelMat.com LesGrandsVoisins.com
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LesGrandsVoisins.fr/.com

LesGrandsVoisins.fr/.com is a project extension in a virtual world of Les Grands Voisins insomuch as it: is a space (digital websites lesgrandsvoisins.fr/.com and lesgrandsvoisins.com/.fr ) and an identity (a trademark deposited the same day as another holder, rendering it defacto public domain) provides events ; infrastructure (or at least a network) for non-profits, artists, artisans, social…
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Beta & Emerging

Beta and design-phase realizations are: Sharing Digital Resources Computer Drive /group-coaching-freelancers-digital LesGrandsVoisins.fr (& LesGrandsVoisins.com) etrangers.org
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Les Grands Voisins Manifesto

Auto-translation Alternative manifesto edited by Chris This manifesto, imperfect, conceived of the hopes, the sufferings and the incomprehension of those who instilled it. The Big Neighbors were born at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital in the 14th arrondissement in Paris, between Port Royale and the Catacombs. They come from flaws in the concrete and in public policies. They are open, inclusive…
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Shared Digital Resources

ResDigita is pseudo-latin for “the digital thing.” The goal here is to intelligently share electronic resources. Currently, we need to finance a pro Zoom account and two Meetup groups (English-Speaking Café Philo and Ochaika) for use of a digital room mentioned in the web page “ Video Conferencing Here for Everyone .” Please contribute here in order to keep the ResDigita resources open: https…
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Video Conferencing

The goal is to provide a shared space that be comfortable, accessible and secure . After considering different alternatives, we settled on Zoom simply because it seems to work.  Other reasonable alternatives are WebEx, Google Meet and Jitsi. Criteria for choice are availability, robustness, security, accessibility, ubiquity, etc. We can change if convenient, and I am actually interested in Jitsi…
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The Making of a Maker's Space at la Ressourcerie la Mine

Automatic Translation The Ressourcerie la mine in Arceuil ( 76 avenue de la convention 94110 Arcueil ( https://goo.gl/maps/AoyVDJPnwNhbvbf77 )), a extra-ordinary and large place on three buildings in Arceuil (RER B Laplace) for the reuse of things and people make in the speed a redone cafe, a redone restaurant, a redone concert hall, a sewing workshop, a new dedicated building to furniture and…
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AgilePrise.com

https://www.agileprise.com Digital Distances @Work What is distance in computer projects? This workshop addresses the logistical and cultural questions that any team working on or with software. The next Meetup is set for Tuesday November 7 at 6:30 PM at Les Grands Voisins in central Paris. Presentation Lego for Scrum at the Alternative Urbaine This was a half-day workshop associating populations…
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Configuration Management

The goal of configuration management is to master IT configurations with tools, repositories, and practices. #TODO Find CMAP describing Configuration Management and export it here. The website ConfigMagic.COM and its corresponding git server were intended for this service. There is also a CMAP Tools site on using CMAP Tools for configuration management. Configuration Management
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Time Accounting

Make Systematic Use of New Information Capacity Planning Concept Map The Target Market is Any business with a project portfolio to manage Software editors The Service Offering is Creation of an information system and software crossing workstreams with projects and organizations Model and model-making framework for time accounting The Implementation Phase Consists of One-week prototype One-day per…
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Digital Inclusion

The internet is a new opportunity to exclude marginalized populations. Our efforts here are to invite digitally marginalized populations to be able to participate in the virtual society. This is done by setting up computer rooms and giving computer classes to otherwise internet-challenged students. I put in place three-way partnerships between: Social Workers, Beneficiaries (Students), and…
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Works

These are realizations, produced products and/or services. Beta Sharing Digital Resources Computer Drive /group-coaching-freelancers-digital New ../2020/video-conferencing /tdah-adulte-soutien Ongoing AgilePrise.com events : Digital Distances @ Work, Holistic Lego for Scrum  and Agile Digitale Enterprise Framework Computer Lab /digital-inclusion https://chrismann.zenfolio.com/ Design Phase…
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XSpyDer

XSpyDer — XSD introspection in Python for Entity-Relations was a set of open-source Python scripts to parse XSD specifications issued from the BOAMP and JOUE for their electronic-tender formats. At last use, it controlled 50,000 distinct information and controls for a subsidiary of achat-public.com, managing some 23 forms, some of which had 14 screens. This technology at first contributed to one…
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E-Delib

As an independent software editor and research project manager, I led a team to develop a Java J2EE solution, a Python/Plone solution, a PHP solution for e-democracy between civil servants and elected officials in regulatory contexts form an extranet for electronic town ordinances; developed a five-module application infrastructure with MVC, GED and EDI, Workflow, Security, Business Logic modules…
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