Brian Behlendorf is an early contributor to our Pyramid of Peace
http://www.pyramidofpeace.net He is an organizer of the Apache web
server and a founder of CollabNet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Behlendorf Brian is in Davos,
Switzerland for the World Economic Forum there. Thanks to Shannon Clark
for links http://shannonclark.wordpress.com to the forum's YouTube channel.

I wrote my letter below to another group both to thank Brian and others
who have donated to our pyramid, and also to ask for help. One idea is
to find corporate sponsorships for individuals like myself, Dennis,
Kennedy, Samwel, and other leaders as if we were athletes, which in a
way, we are. The sponsorships should be quite handsome. This way we
could focus on raising and applying the money and not worry about
ourselves or our futures.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@...
+370 699 30003
Vilnius, Lithuania

Brian,

Deep thanks to you for your prompt support of our Pyramid of Peace
http://www.pyramidofpeace.net in Kenya. Thank you to Nancy White and
Danah Boyd for blogging us, I am very happy how the news has spread
onward from you! Thank you, Shara Karasic, Luke Closs, Greg Wolff and
all for your help and love. I've made a list of all the links I've
found http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?KenyanCorrespondents and I hope
to put them up prominently soon.

Our network has organized successful peace meetings with Kalenjin
fighters. We are now going to work through our contacts inside the
Kenyan police force to encourage dialogue for peace between police
officers and figthers of the same tribe, notably the Kalenjins but also
the Kikuyus. The Kalenjin fighters are organizing themselves on a wider
scale and the Kalenjin people are not receiving much aid. Here is a
report of a peace meeting in the Nandi Hills Gardens from Emmanuel Were
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holistichelping/message/1920
our response to a worsening day in the haven of Nakuru
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holistichelping/message/1921
and our work for tomorrow in the Kalenjin refugee camps
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fightingpeacefully/message/666

I would benefit if any company, organization or agency might provide a
monthly stipend of $2,000 for several months as there is plenty to do.
Indeed, I would be happy to have a corporate sponsor at $5,000 per month
for myself in the pyramid and I think we might look for corporate
sponsors for other key participants throughout our pyramid. Kind of like
sponsorships for athletes. This would be a great help because we are
channeling all the money we receive from strangers out to the farthest
reaches of our network. I'm also trying to absorb any fees such as for
transfering money to make sure that people can contribute 100%
effectively. My thought is to rely on newcomers for the most
strategically immediate work and to rely on oldtimers for longer
projects and to help people they have personally come to know, such as
our original leader in Kenya, Samwel Kongere, who has just started
eating and talking after two weeks on milk and water.

I am excited at the work I and our Kenyan leaders are starting for Greg
Wolff's Unamesa Association. http://www.unamesa.org The idea is that
Unamesa will contribute 10% extra to the money we raise to pay us to
self-audit ourselves and show how the money and news are flowing through
our pyramid of participants. Thank you, Nancy for blogging my hand-drawn
diagram:
http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/01/17/flow-of-donations-from-a-networked-respons\
e/
and I will automate this process in the next few days and I hope to have
it available to show with TheBrain and other tools. We have raised
almost $10,000 and I will give the first $1,000 to our Kenyan leaders to
care for themselves and their families and then beyond that this might
be a good income stream for us. We have I think a good chance of
raising more money from the wider public. We were featured by Clark
Boyd on Public Radio International. Our ideas of buying and sharing
airtime and posting public telephones and calling Kenyans have all
spread beyond our network presumably reenforcing others who are doing
this.

We're rapidly building perhaps millions of dollars in human assets,
linking up with many peace activists and cultivating a lot of leadership
and bravery. We have an immediate opportunity to pursue business
ventures such as the Includer http://www.includer.org a simple offline
device for reading and writing emails stored on a USB flash drive for
uploading and downloading at an Internet cafe. We're seeking a friendly
customer (BBC, WorldSpace, RedCross, PeaceCorps, WHO, UN...) who might
spend $100,000+ for a network of 100 people with such devices, for
example, in Kenya.

Meanwhile... March 31, 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania our Minciu Sodas
laboratory is hosting the workshop of the European Union thematic
network COMMUNIA for the Public Domain, http://www.communia-project.eu
"Ethical Public Domain: Debate of Questionable Practices".
http://www.ethicalpublicdomain.org I will invite Microsoft, Google,
Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr, Queen Elizabeth II, RIAA, University of
California, MIT and others (please suggest!) to explain or correct their
dubious behavior, and to work towards a world where Public Domain has
primacy over copyright, and a European Union where that is enshrined in
the constitutions. I am thinking to organize a "constructive criticism
fund" where they would freely donate to receive helpful criticism now
rather than dish out for endless lawsuits later. Perhaps there may be
interest in Davos? Oh yes, our Africans will serve as judges.

Brian, Danah, Nancy, Shara, Luke, Greg, Jerry and all,
Thank you for helping!

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@...
+370 699 30003
Vilnius, Lithuania