Tech Group
Mitch Miller has many good technology ideas. He believes we should use technology in the best possible ways instead of the most profitable ways. That being said, Mitch believes a fair and reasonable profit can be made from many of his ideas.
Mitch has owned and operated several successful businesses. He has spent days in training sessions to learn the traditional corporate management strategies. Mitch would like to try a management style he used while president of his high school class. He has termed this management style as “direct democracy”.
Mitch is seeking to form a group of technology workers that can help create proprietary software and programming for several of his ideas. While he has disclosed many of his ideas to the public he has kept several to himself for when opportunity to build them arrives. If this group forms, Mitch is willing to release more of his ideas for the group to vote on. They can decide whether the idea should be developed as a non-profit or for-profit business.
Ideally the group should be willing to work with a mix of non-profit and for-profit projects. Mitch will attempt to manage the group through voting on every decision and policy. The group can vote on a percentage of profit equally dispersed to each member including Mitch. Mitch will put together reports and estimates on costs and overhead. The group will decide how much from profit should be invested in growing the business.
Members will be able to review the work of each member periodically and each member will do a review for every member. Mitch will periodically compile these reviews and summarize them. At the end of each year members will have the opportunity to vote on whether each member should remain in the group. If someone is voted out of the group they will receive the compensation due to them from the previous year’s profit.
If a new member should need added to the group each group member will have an opportunity to interview each candidate. Multiple discussions will occur about the best candidates and the group will vote on which candidate to add to the group. A new group member will be entitled to an equal share in the profits of the companies and any compensation offered from the non-profits.
Mitch has spread his public ideas over 4 active websites he created using a builder. If you would like to become part of the group feel free to contact him using the contact form on any of these websites. Please reference “Tech Group” somewhere in your email. These websites are:
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Alma Voter Internet Platform
What if you could use a portion of the advertising dollars spent on a University’s students and alumni to subsidize tuition for current students? That is the concept behind Alma Voter. In addition to tapping into our consumer value we also want to make all higher education institutions controlled by their students, faculty, staff, and alumni through direct democracy. Our focus is to begin with a transition at the University of Pittsburgh where we can create a network of support for other Universities to transition in a similar manner.
The first step in this process is to develop an internet platform upon which students, faculty, staff and alumni can verify their status with the University of Pittsburgh and create an account. This platform will allow for Administration to host podcasts about their daily duties and issues the University faces. It will allow account holders to vote on different decisions the university must make.
Another important use for the platform is to decide how certain research will be used. If the University develops a life saving medication or procedure the students and alumni can vote on how that development will be released. The idea is to offer these treatments at low cost or for free rather than allowing pharmaceutical companies or other industry to reap huge profits from research that was done by a partially public University.
Once the students, staff, faculty, and alumni are organized using the platform, we will begin to negotiate with the University to allow it to be governed entirely through direct democracy. Account holders will be able to vote on what companies can advertise on the platform and a percentage of advertising money will go to subsidizing the tuition of the current student body. Alma Voter will be a totally transparent company separate from the University.
The breakdown of the profit received through Alma Voter is as follows. 40 percent of profit goes toward reinvestment in the company, 30 percent of profit goes to subsidizing the tuition of every student at the University of Pittsburgh, 30 percent of profit goes to the founders of Alma Voter.
Our goal at Alma Voter is to vote on these percentages each year so that the percentage that goes to current students increases year after year. Once we have an accurate idea of the number of account holders there will be for a University the size of Pitt, we will be transparent with the actual cost of supporting the platform so that the percent of profit used for reinvestment can be brought down year after year. When we have a solid dollar amount to operate the platform and most of the features that would be offered for the platform have been developed, we can also vote on the percentage that go to the Founders of the platform.
It is understood that the Founders are accepting a percentage at first as there is little startup money to offer them a salary. As the platform progresses the voters will decide a fair salary for the founders and their percentage share will be decreased incrementally over as many years as the account holders think fair.
The Alma Voter platform will establish its own electronic currency called Pitcoin to account for tuition subsidies. Each active student will be able to see in their account how much Pitcoin they have accrued to be used only for tuition at the University of Pittsburgh. Alma Voter will have to pay business taxes on the 30 percent profit reserved for tuition reimbursement and students will be able to see their share pre-tax and post-tax on their account. This is an effort to encourage students to write their lawmakers to allow at least their share of profit in Alma Voter to be tax free.
Part of our negotiations with the University of Pittsburgh will be for them to allow transparency so that account holders can understand exactly how the University functions. To aid in this goal student journalists will be voted on by the student body to interview employees and researchers at the University. These student journalists will be paid in Pitcoin and readers of their articles will be able to vote on how much Pitcoin they should receive for their article. The money distributed to student journalists will come from an even split between the 30 percent for student tuition and 30 percent for the founders. Therefore the student body and the founders will be able to vote to set limits on how much Pitcoin can be offered to a student journalist per article.
Alumni will be required to pay a yearly dues of $20 to use the Alma Voter platform. The purpose of this is to aid in negotiations with the University by showing how much revenue can be generated from the alumni which could eventually be used by the University if they cooperate. This may also cause the university to pay attention to all alumni rather than pandering to only big donors.
Alumni dues will be kept separate from other monies in the company and will be used for two purposes. The first use of the alumni dues is to pay for a charity to be operated using the platform and direct democracy. All account holders will vote on one charity for the University of Pittsburgh to partner with. Alumni dues will be used to pay for the cost of operating that charity in a way in which all donors vote on major decisions using our platform. If every University in the nation partners with a charity in this way we can have all charities being operated by all donors no matter how small. This would solve the problem of some charities being tax havens for the ultra wealthy.
The second use of alumni dues is to pay for security on our site. All remaining money not spent on the charity will be used for security for the account holders. Additional money for security may be taken from the operating budget which will be voted on by account holders.
So to reiterate Alma Voter account holders will be able to vote on major decisions within the Alma Voter company. As the University of Pittsburgh transitions to a direct democracy model, Alma Voter account holders will be able to vote on decisions within the University. Eventually Alma Voter account holders will be able to vote on who can advertise to them on the platform. Finally, if an Alma Voter account holder gives any amount to our partner charity they will be able to vote on general decisions within that charity.
Alma Voter LLC Operating Document
This is a temporary operating document for the formation of an LLC named Alma Voter. Mitchell Miller is forming this LLC and is the first member of the Founders class. Other people who can create the Alma Voter Internet Platform will join Mitch in the founding class and may be listed on this document or the founding document when this company reorganizes.
The Alma Voter Company is owned by Mitch Miller until the company grows in size and scope to reorganize into a different legal entity. The goal is that the company will be owned by the actively enrolled student body of the University of Pittsburgh. Once the company is established we will reorganize into an entity that allows for this type of ownership.
The Founders will create a platform on which account holders can vote on major decisions within the company. Until this platform is functional Mitchell Miller and the Founders class will steer the company and make decisions based on a majority vote within the Founders class. The Founders class will try to poll the account holder class using existing social media platforms on any major decisions within the company.
The Account Holder class is the actively enrolled student body of the University of Pittsburgh, Alumni of the University of Pittsburgh, Faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, and Staff of the University of Pittsburgh. The Account Holder class has no obligation to the Alma Voter company and can vote by choice in some or all of the decisions.
A breakdown of the profit share is as follows: 40% of profit will be reinvested into the company, 30% of profit will be split evenly among the members of the Founders Class, 30% of profit will be held in an account designed to be disbursed evenly to actively enrolled students of the University of Pittsburgh.
All donations made to Mitchell Miller specifically for this project will be used in the startup and operation of the Alma Voter company. Revenue generated by the Alumni dues system will be held separately and be used for the operation of a similar online platform for a partner charity. Any remaining monies from the Alumni dues not spent on the partner charity will be used for the security of the Alma Voter online platform.
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