My understanding of the communications infrastructure you have in mind for the WWC is that it be light weight and distributed. What I mean is that the central office--for lack of a better term--would have a Web site and a database of activities, but the correspondence between partner areas would more or less be left to the partner areas to figure out.

I mention that because Minciu Sodas offers a concrete example of what that sort of infrastructure might look like.

Something I've mentioned in various threads here might be framed as a question: Should David Bale be famous? Not once when I've brought this up has there been a peep. I take from the silence a resounding "No!" from David.

I'm saying this rather awkwardly, which probably means I'm not really clear on my thinking. In any case thinking of Minciu Sodas as a sort of model to look at for how the WWC might be organized, it might be worth while to notice how that organization depends on Andrius being "famous" in some sense.

What I'm getting at is figuring out how to make David Bale to not be indispensable to the welfare of the WWC is an important challenge to figure out. LOL either that or you're going to have to get comfortable with the idea of being "famous" David.

My feeling is there is much to learn from Minciu Sodas, how they use various Web sites and manage their garden of small projects. It is kind of hard to do that precisely because their activity is spread out in many groups. Viewing it from the inside requires a time consuming plunge into the network. And Andrius serves as a sort of gatekeeper. The best way for a sort of view of Minciu Sodas is perhaps to engage with a few people who are active there. My first approach would be to look in an open-ended way rather than to go into the looking with an eye to collaboration.