Zeitgeist

Temporary Action Groups or Transversal Agile Groups, as you like.
It occoured to me that while there are many open source project, I haven't seen many projects that span across several disciplines.

I find inspiring to think that a group of similar minded people from different walks of life can come together to produce something beautiful across several media and from different ascpects, each one contributing with his own special skills.

This happens in companies and in some activist groups, but I don't see it happening spontaneously without the push of money or political ideology.

I would like to see <TAG>s emerge.  I would like to see a system that allows people from different disciplines but similar attitudes to find each other and to assemble into small hit-and-run teams that can collaborate on small significant projects, disband and coalesce again in different forms.

I envision a <TAG> having the following characteristics:

• small, so that it can be agile
• leadership is task ans skill based and it can be shifting
  
• it acts mainly through the internet, since the internet is pushing more and more into our lives and it allows you to have the right mix of impact per expended effort within a reasonable amount of time
• temporary, based around a single well defined task rather than around a campaign or an ideal
• transversal since it brings together expertise from several fields
• it's action based.  The creation of a final product is the goal of its existence
• it's extremely focused on obtaining a certain goal within a limited amount of time
• it's agile since it is willing to keep changing its tactics and it reasons on how to refine the process