The board of directors was able to provide a quorum.
We reviewed the last meetings minutes.
The board adopted one edict:
(adopted) Edict 4.8 – By-Laws Adopted by the Board of Directors as edited by the Board. /bylaws/
which included new bylaws governing organizational operations. This also allows the organization to be registered with the st [...]
Report: March 2nd Board and Membershi...
The board of directors was able to provide a quorum.
We reviewed the last meetings minutes.
The board adopted one edict:
(adopted) Edict 4.8 – By-Laws Adopted by the Board of Directors as edited by the Board. /bylaws/
which included new bylaws governing organizational operations. This also allows the organization to be registered with the st [...]
Report: Feb 2nd Board and Membership ...
The board adopted the following:
(adopted) Edict 3.3 – An Edict is a board adopted rule that must be approved by 51% of the voting members of the board which also means at least that 51% of those members are required present for quorum.
(adopted) Edict 3.4 – A motion is a majority board voted action or assignment as directed by the board [...]
Manual of Civilization
Manual for Civilization
One of my favorite organizations is the Long Now. The reason for this is their focus on one simple mission that I strongly believe in. Their focus is on long term thinking and they don’t have the politics and over intellectualization like many other groups I’m familiar with. Their singular focus is on helping [...]
Modernizing the Education System
There has been much reported on the problems with our education system: that students in the United States are lagging behind many of their peers in other countries in mathematics, science and reading. The typical response is to look at class sizes or at student performance on a per teacher basis to try and find solutions to these issues. The [...]
Report: Jan 14 Board of Directors Vir...
to recap the virtual meeting, The board adopted the following ‘edicts’ and ‘motions’
(adopted) edict 1.0 – The vision of the Pratoriate Foundation will be stated as thus: “Providing a sustainable, multi-located, searchable repository for personal and social development to help create a better world through [...]
Early Adopter Psychological Trend tow...
I’m somewhat new to transhumanity and come from a background in human machine interface design. In my entire nerdy-ness, I’m surprised it took this long for me to get connected with Transhumanism; but, let’s not get side tracked. I want to write about an interesting trend, I think I found, that came out of additional analysis on a demograph [...]
Yearly Council Retreat Update
The Foundation has a yearly retreat. To that end a number of key things came out of this conference. One major change is a focus on a wider demographic which means most on going projects will be focused primarily the Library and our vision and developing this as a sustainable resource. Additionally to that end the council voted on a new vi [...]
Foundation selects the first 3 projec...
With the opening of the retreat next month, there are lots of projects proposals to review and people to interview. Of the projects selected so far the following are some of our favorites that we are already prepping at the site so they start when we open. For more information or if you are interested in a proposals or living at the retrea [...]
Vision for a Library Institute Retrea...
The Foundation has been focused for some time on building a Library research facility that would focus on the moral and ethical use of technology to improve the human condition, to help humanity transcend our limitations and help raise the standard of civilization. This is the retreat, a center for research, the collection of knowledge and th [...]
Foundation Announces Library Institut...
The Foundation (www.pratoriate.org ) is pleased to announce that, after several years of planning, our first Library Institute Retreat will open in June 2013. The initial retreat is being opened for up to 8 researchers at an initial test facility with the goal of working toward getting Trans-humanists from several fields working on projects s [...]