{"id":1103,"date":"2009-09-23T02:14:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T09:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2010-01-24T21:44:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T04:44:06","slug":"overheard-on-roselearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"Overheard On Roselearn:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open-Source Leaderless Teams?<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Bob Jacobs <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, once told an interviewer that at the beginning of his career with the original MS-DOS operating system, his father asked him why anyone would be willing to pay for software. \u00a0With the globally widespread development and acceptance of open-source alternatives to Microsoft proprietary software products, Mr. Gates may be currently revisiting his father’s question.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The most widely used free-of-charge open-source operating system is “Ubuntu,” and is used throughout the world by both individual users and governments. This writer has been using it for about three years, and is looking forward to the release of version 9.10, dubbed “Karmic Koala” in October.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word “Ubuntu” is African for “humanity to others.”\u00a0 The following web address provides more information about Ubuntu, and includes a wonderful explanation from Nelson Mandela via a short video:<\/p>\n

\u00a0 http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ubuntu_<\/a>\u00a0 (philosophy)
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For information regarding how the spirit of Ubuntu has been implemented in the arena of computer operating systems, please visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ubuntu_<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(operating_system)
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The reason this information is being shared with you is because, the relationship between the Windows and Ubuntu operating systems seems to me to be somewhat analogous to the relationship between the 20th century and 21st century Rosicrucian Fellowship. \u00a0The new RF, in order to be successful, should reflect a decentralized, open-source spirit, with no centralized leadership, and a desire to freely share the WWT’s to all via modern communications technology. \u00a0The 21st century version of the Cosmo-Conception available for free viewing on handheld internet devices throughout the world, in multiple languages, is an example.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reply:\u2026\u2026\u2026I disagree with the idea of no leadership. \u00a0The policies will not be implemented then also there will be chaos.\u00a0 We have a movie that came out in the late 1960s \u2026\u2026\u2026..etc\u2026<\/em>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Eileen\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks for your thoughts on this matter. \u00a0The movie to which you refer is “Lord of the Flies,” based upon the novel of the same name by William Golding.\u00a0 I remember reading the book as a high school freshman at Brooklyn Tech in New York City, and seeing the movie with my parents.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The “Lord of the Flies” story is applicable to our discussion only if we were to agree that the membership of the RF is at the maturity level of adolescents. \u00a0As Max Heindel has pointed out, birth is a “fourfold” event, and it is not until the mind is born at 21 years of age that a human has recapitulated previous stages of development and is truly an “adult.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An example of the nature of leadership that, I believe, would provide a useful analog to the 21st century RF is the international work currently underway for the next version of the Ubuntu operating system. \u00a0If you were to google “Ubuntu 9.10” or “Canonical,” a bit of exploration would provide the details of the many small teams, scattered throughout the world, working on the complex project of producing an increasingly popular, freeware version of an operating system that is providing Bill Gates with sleepless nights.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Another example of a relatively “leaderless” team is a neonatal, pediatric, or adult resuscitation team in an acute care hospital setting. \u00a0Although one individual, usually a physician, takes responsibility for the overall effort, the team members are highly trained and everyone knows what to do, without submitting to anyone else’s authority. \u00a0No politics, no personality clashes, no hidden agendas; simply a shared desire to save a human life.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As a preparatory school to the Rosicrucian Order, should not the operating principles of the Rosicrucian Fellowship manifest, at least in some small measure, the concept of the synthesis of religion, art and science? \u00a0Fellowship, as a principle of religion, manifests as a devout church congregation, enraptured by the harmony of a well-rehearsed choir. Fellowship, as a principle of art, manifests as the second movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, an incomparable distillation of the sorrow of overwhelming, solitary, responsibility.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a>

Click on image to hear 2nd Movement of Beethoven's Symphony<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fellowship, as a principle of science, manifests as teams of computer programmers, scattered throughout the world, enraptured by the complexity of a fully-functional, free-of-charge,\u00a0operating system capable of successfully competing with the products of centralized for-profit corporations. In the spirit of “Ubuntu” i.e. “humanity to others” we see examples all around us, of our brothers and sisters successfully collaborating, often separated by great distances, on exceedingly difficult, complex projects, putting aside differences of personality, ethnic origin, politics, etc. \u00a0Can we not do the same?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first decade of the 21st century is nearly completed, and we still have not seen a new “external” spiritual leader arising, either among us, or from without. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps, this is not meant to be. \u00a0Perhaps this new century portends a new operational model for the Fellowship. \u00a0Perhaps, as a successful team, we can function together as a collective, virtual “initiate.” \u00a0We have been given as a gift a treasure that Max Heindel procured for us with his own spirit of self-sacrifice. \u00a0After 100 years, isn’t it time for us to say “thank you?”<\/p>\n

\u00a0Best Regards.<\/p>\n

Bob Jacobs<\/p>\n

Mesa, Arizona, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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