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From: Jonathan Hare. Date: Thursday, March 18, 2004 at 4:00 PM. To: John Clippinger (Personal). Subject: Resillient, ascendent...
Hey man, It was great seeing you again last week, and I thought I would follow up with the results of our barnstorming tour from last week. Also, I'm scrambling to get ready for PC Forum, and unforunately I didn't notice that Esther had kindly asked me who I wanted to meet there, and I didn't respond with an intro-wish list until just now, which may be a bit late. So, I thought I'd forward along a list of the attendees below, to see if you know of any relevant folks you could introduce me to.
First off, you'll be pleased to hear that after meeting with 15 people from the General Services Administration, we've been approved for multiple pilots, including for their Project Management Office Center for Excellence and a couple of government-wide performance management and transparency and accountability initiatives. The pilots begin in a week, and are scheduled to run for 90 days. We even have our own government acrnonym - RTS (Resilient Thread Server.)
The Assistant Inspector General for the Coalition Provisional Authority attended the meeting, and now *she* wants to know how quickly we can deploy a thread server to Baghdad. (I thought she was joking, but apparently she isn't.) Anyway, I have to fly back and meet with a bunch of foks at the Pentagon, as soon as I can get around to it. They also hooked me up with the Director of Small Business at the Defense Contracting Command at the Pentagon, who I need to meet with next time I'm out.
NY was purely social, but then I swung up to Boston to meet with Tony Picardi (SVP of Software and Services at IDC) the Anne Thomas Manes at the Burton Group, and each has pronounced Resilient threads as the most disruptive and compelling technologies they've seen in years. The meeting at IDC was loads of fun - at first it was just me and Tony, but before long he started running out and dragging people out of other meetings, insisting that they come see Resilient threads immediately. By the end it was standing room only.
By the way, I also had a pleasant time with Judith Donath, who sends her warm regards. I never had a chance to show her threads - spent the whole time talking about social networking technologies and on-line dating. Apparently, I have the funniest on-line dating story she's ever heard. (BTW, she thinks her house is too big. I hear that it was architected back when she was with Joe, and wretched excess really isn't her style. She showed up to an evening meeting riding a bicycle, and she takes the T when it's snowing.) Also, I mentioned I had seen a really cool social networking app, but that I couldn't tell her about it without prior permission - if your pal is interested, maybe she could be helpful to him. She said she is planning on coming out to SF some time in the relatively near future.
Incidentally, I've included the attendee list for PC Forum below, in case you wouldn't mind taking a glance through it, and seeing if there are any true believer types that you could ping on my behalf. (BTW, do you know this Linda Lewandowski, in the Donald Rumsfeld's office? Her job is "Transformation Strategist", and it seems like she would be right up our alley...) Jonathan [phone number withheld by the record — the author's current number; his ruling, S-181]
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The strongest dated documentation the record now holds for the original Resilient: March 2004, the product is threads, the government acronym is RTS — Resilient Thread Server — which ties directly to the Spolin process-thread patent family (US 8,347,313 / 8,752,069); fifteen GSA attendees, multiple approved pilots including the PMO Center for Excellence and government-wide transparency initiatives, 90-day terms beginning within the week; the Coalition Provisional Authority's Assistant Inspector General asking for a thread server in Baghdad; Pentagon follow-ons; and the analyst reception — Tony Picardi at IDC dragging people from other meetings until standing room only, Anne Thomas Manes at Burton Group, both pronouncing Resilient threads the most disruptive technology in years. Hare's contemporaneous belief that Esther Dyson was already an investor stands at recorded grade. The Donath passage, gated at ingest by the integrator's convention, was opened by the author's ruling of 29 August 2026 under the sweep of S-138 — and reads, restored, as what it always was: affectionate. The record notes the gate and its opening so the history of the handling is itself on the record. v72d: the author's own 2004 sign-off number is withheld in the text with an announced marker — it is still his mobile number (S-181), so it falls under the record's permanent exclusion of personal contact information, on the S-126 precedent. This is the only substitution ever made in a verbatim field, and it is a redaction, not a correction.
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