We all start out with Plan A. A plan to get everything we want a plan to do anything we want. Plan B

1. Introduction to Plan B
John Argast @ 2013

2. Costa Rica 2010
• Secure Compound with three houses
– Michael, Annette, Elizabeth, Zoey, Carrie,
Marcus, Cedar, Jim, Pam, Anthony, Tyson,
Joan, Susan and John
– Caught in Riptide
– Started to Paint
– Plan B

3. Plan A
Litany of Problems
a tedious recital
Technological
unemployment
Downloading
Global village competition
Representative Democracy +
free Market + profit
incentive
No More
SPCA
ICBC 12%
BC Ferries 18%
BC Hydro 17%
City of Campbell River
17.8%
Debt $1.3 billion + $266 million
Cause Effect

4. Too big to fail vs.
Too small to succeed
• All of the
liabilities and
none of the
assets
John's 2% CPP increase for 2013 = $10.50

5. 80/20 theorem
K.I.S.S principle
Technology of Belief
Six degrees of separation
CRTV co-operative cable
MESH of a Mash-up
Solid State
AC vs. DC
Network Labs
Crowdsourcing
Kickstart

6. Mesh of a Mashup
• What characterizes a Mesh business?
– 1. The core offering is something that can be shared,
within a community, market, or value chain, including
products, services, and raw materials.
– 2. Advanced Web and mobile data networks are used to
track goods and aggregate usage, customer, and product
information.
– 3. The focus is on shareable physical goods, including the
materials used, which makes local delivery of services and
products—and their recovery—valuable and relevant.
– 4. Offers, news, and recommendations are transmitted
largely through word of mouth, augmented by social
network services.
• Gansky, Lisa (2010-09-23). The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing (Kindle Locations 255-
261). Penguin Group. Kindle Edition.

7. Mashup
• The term mashup originally comes from pop music, where
people seamlessly combined music from one song with the
vocal track from another—mashing them together to create
something new.
• A web page of application that combines content from more
than one source to create a single new service.
• Google Maps + Google Calendar + Automated cars equals a
personal public at your location as scheduled in you calendar.
• Your personal medical information with graphical indicators
related to all aspects of your health.

8. MESH of a mash-up
• BC Hydro SMART Meters use mesh
networking technology
• is a type of network topology where each node must not only
capture and disseminate its own data, but also serve as a relay for
other nodes, that is, it must collaborate to propagate the data in the
network.

9. Enterprise Grade Technology
• Large Corporations deploy dense
complex technology
– Walmart 2.2 million employees
– A corporation is a separate legal entity having legal rights and
liabilities that are separate from their shareholders
• Network labs are isolated computer
systems designed to test and develop
solutions
– Campbell River as a test lab to test and develop solutions
• Data Centers and Solid State Devices
– Science Fiction

10. CR MESH
• Cooperative Corporation (non-profit)
• Community Services
• Community Yellow Pages
• Request for Proposal
• Community Exchange System
– Member Services
• Information and Data Management Services
• Transportation Services
• Educational Services
• Medical Services
• Entertainment Services
– For Profit Divisions
• Business Services
• Above the Canopy Technologies
• Along the Trail Technologies

11. Market Potential
• Strathcona Regional District
– Population 43,000
• Annual Membership $4.7m @ $111
• Annual Service 473,000 hours @ $50 per hour
$23.6m
• Membership Drive 5555 members
– $600,000
– $3.0m services

12. Barter Exchange
• Soft Claim – non-profit
• Mutual Credit Clearing Process
• Blended Trades
• Community Exchange System
• Greenfield Project is a project that
lacks any constraints imposed by prior
work.