Author: F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn,
Date : Sep 18, 1995 (modified); Aug 1993 (created)
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Project Organization

The present document provides an overview of the different tools and methods used for the practical organization of the Principia Cybernetica Project, as contrasted with its theoretical results.

The project is managed by an editorial board, which is responsible for the production, maintenance and selection of the material. Everybody interested can contribute to the material being developed. Editors and contributors together use various methods of collaboration, mostly through the new electronic media of cyberspace.

Direct discussions among the contributors, and announcements of new developments, take place on the PRNCYB-L and PCP-news electronic mailing lists. The results produced by the project are maintained and made publically available on two information servers:

the WWW server is organized so as to make information easily retrievable and semantically structured;
the FTP-server is kept as a repository for longer texts (e.g. papers) that were not written as HTML hypertexts, and for people who are not using WWW as yet.

Although most of the collaboration takes place electronically, PCP also deploys more traditional academic activities, such as the organization of conferences and the publication of books or articles in scientific journals. This again ensures the accessibility of PCP's results to people who are not yet capable of using the new electronic media. The editors try in general to make the project's results publically known, especially in the hope of attracting new contributors, and they are interested in the different reactions elicited by the project, so that they may correct mistakes or wrong impressions.

For a list of names and addresses of the people involved and the different services provided, check the project's masthead.

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