Slowly Learning Wordpress to Migrate - Open Source TRPG publisher

 I will need to eventually move to Self Hosted Wordpress site our company has a web developer now, entry level.  I consider websites low margin - a necessity but it should just have basic customization options. 

Game in the Brain, Gaming Work, and Gaming Life will move to this eventually - I will also be removing gameinthebrain.com from Google Domains - who is using some Squarespace subdomain to maintain this. 

I got to thinking of some CORE mission vision basics about what game in the brain about - Game in the brain is an OPEN SOURCE TRPG publisher. Trying to make open source as a business work in both my Hobby of TRPGs and my work. 

I'm trying to do what the FUTO (the company Louis Rossman is working in now) who started the Source First license - basically its Open Source Free except for Billionaire or Mega Corporations - I agree that Open Source Foundation is keeping it free but not considering allowing contributors to make a living out of this - enabling Corporations to make a TON OF MONEY out of open source and not contributing to it proportionally. 

In the Philippines right now I'm negotiating with Frappe and NextCloud - hey your product is free and open source - I want you to make money but we cannot force people to pay you (and because its free we can do this without asking permission ) - we will charge the annual cost that would be more competitive than Google workspace or another ERP - the Open Source partner gets 80% and we get 20% of the service of installing and setting it up. 

Example. In the Philippines Erpnext or NextCloud is sold at 10usd/user/month or 120usd per year per user. In a 10 user deployment 1200usd - 80% ( 960usd) goes to the Open Source partner and  20% (240usd) goes to us for setting it up and installing it. I want the partnership written down and official, I can just execute this without their permission since its GPL anyway and nothing is stoping me... BUT I want it formal and an example - so that others may consider it moving forward. 

Note that in the Philippines, the final price would be 1200 USD + 12% VAT—our Value Added Tax is not the same as the USA's, which is only applied to anything added. In the Philippines, the VAT is a sales tax. So the 1200 USD will have 144 USD taxes (which we remit to the government every month). 

It comes with a 1 year warranty of support (anything wrong with the service of installation). We dont want to do the Software as a Service - we believe we can do it with Support services - as they need it, and Upgrade Services - if they want the additional upgrades and updates within the year is covered by the 1 year warranty and support... but beyond that year the customer can choose to not get any support if they dont need it. We believe only 10-20% of customers will need it... of the 10,000 businesses (2025-2035) we plan to set this all up - we believe only 1,000 SMEs will just get support from us while the 9000 dont need it and are happy with it in the next 3-5 years. They will probably get us to migrate to NEW hardware.  

We want to do the same for DEBIAN (helping companies migrate to Debian Linux In light of Crowdstrike fiasco and the End of Windows 10 (costing 61usd, 122 USD, and 244 USD in the succeeding years).

I'm not desperate or greedy—with our Open-Source (Free) ERP, Low-Code, open-source Arduino, and Firewall (Netgate PFsense), we will equip 10,000 businesses with this technology and probably 100,000 businesses because of our School partnerships—none of which will be giving us any money. We will just be educating millions of people in Open-Source free options and creating a new open-source economy of services. 

Game in the Brain's Open Source CC-BY-SA SHIPS and materials were supposed to do that, but that needs a lot more stuff—like the FDM 3D printable procedural 3D Character generator and various tools that will allow you to easily create all this material and resell or trade it. 

Creating an OPEN SOURCE economy—wresting trillions from corporate greed to regular people who will not HOARD the wealth and create artificial scarcity but circulate it more efficiently. As a world builder, I know my economics, and this is where my economic beliefs, practical skills, and Social responsibility all align—like a Min-maxer: Altruism Optimized.  

Hard Scifi Skill and Calculations and Acceptance of what the Future holds

Hard Sci-Fi (HSF) is a hobby that delves into the real science behind science fiction. At its core, HSF emphasizes a solid understanding of fundamental scientific principles. In HSF, we start with the immutable laws of nature, such as gravity and the conservation of matter and energy. From this foundation, we explore elements that are more likely to evolve over time.

This approach allows us to narrow down and predict the trajectory of technological advancements. A key aspect of HSF is studying the history of scientific development and understanding current technological trends. By doing so, we create mental models to simulate and plan various scenarios, assuming the development of specific technologies and their potential consequences.

Today, I did a number of calculations, particularly the Carbon capture capacity of technology. 
I learned that

• https://doe.gov.ph/sites/default/files/pdf/electric_power/04_LVM_Grid_Summary_30_apr_2024.pdf the Philippines has 12k MW coal capacity and consumes about 30M tons of coal. 
• That if 1 cubic meter of water/salt water can grow algae then 1 square km only converts a measley 10,000 tons of carbon. 
• That 20B tons of carbon needs to be captured and preserved out of the 40B tons we produced. 
• That earth has only 500M sqkm and to capture 40B of carbon per year you would need 400M sqkm of algae farms (assuming only 1 sqm per 1cubic meter). 

These calculations are part of my research as I try to set up a Bio-reactor our manufacturing plant but its part of my World building because I need to understand what the future looks like. 

That if the Philippines converted all its coal to Nuclear in 20 years through Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) of up to 12,000MW  that would be hundreds of SMRs. That if moved more of our concrete and manufacturing to renewable STARCHES from algae, our proiten to come from Aquafarming - using the algae to feed fish, crabs, shrimp, sea urchins (I love uni, I only get to eat it like 1x per year - cause I have a lot of costs to take care off) etc...

Here is my Algae Bio-Reactor proposal for the Plant  these are the things keeping me busy from writing more Scifi, but it deals with Scifi.  

Acceptance and Trust 

I realize that the ability to believe that people will be educated, have compassion, or care about science and key features in society is not feasible. that we are a society with roles, and we have to trust people who have our best interests in mind. The future is not a WELL-INFORMED PUBLIC - no - the future is TRUST and a society built on transparency and honesty. The future is people being largely ignorant in matters of Politics, State, Science, Technology, Compassion,  and environment - TRUSTING honest and accountable people to help us make decisions and suffering the consequences when these people fail us. 

What happens when you realize the future is built on Trust - I stopped getting angry and frustrated in ignorance, misinformation, malice - and exploitation as much. I understand I have to trust someone to watch my back about some matters, as people trust me to watch their back on other matters. That I have to be accountable and transparent even more. And the people who trust me should come and check on me - and I should come and check on the people I have trusted on matter I cannot hope to comprehend or track. 

All this science and technology and calculation - requires a society that has a strong trust. Trust that kids can walk by themselves in the streets of japan and someone will be there to prevent their harm, that people will be fed, sheltered and cared for, and that people will have a voice. It requires a fundamental building block of trust - and then higher and higher levels of complexity can be achieved and this complexity will leverage greater and greater feats of technology. 

That in SCIFI there will be communities with very high Trust - and vigilance and pro-activeness against people who seek to destroy this trust so they can exploit a population and its resources. 

I get to sound crazy in my blog - how game theory, games, scifi writing, and calculations are processed and knowing - I'm crazy to think this and alone and probably thousands have though these thoughts and have long odds of success. I'm not smart enough to be smart in everything, Be the red genie (Aladdin and the Magic Lamp 1982) the shitty option most people are stuck with. People want the HYPE and the illusion when a perfectly good person is available for them to trust. They want to listen to the deciever instead of someone who can really help them. 

Getting back to Work. Progress Update

Nicco's update to me of the maps. I'm still busy with my Pfsense Certification, so I can't really write or do a lot except proof and do QA on the maps. 

Of course we will have the 200DT Merchant Trader of CE Free (pay-what-you-want) Power Point file of each room and element being a PNG file that will allow you to edit and re-order the ship. 

MNEME of Cepheus Engine will make EDITABLE maps so that you can tweak your deck plans without Photoshop. Of course the RAM required for such feats is quite a lot, but I think everyone is at 8GB these days. 

I'm pessimistic especially how bleak the news is.  

As for my other open source projects, I just wish it becomes a viable way to make a living coming from the industry I come from.