Great that we are slowly gathering here
I have invited a couple of connections that I feel may benefit the group. I hope Faruq Hunter will join us on here for a conversation in the near future (ER primarily, Ci2i in due course). I have met few people out there with as clear and directed a goal and process as he and ‘The Geeks’ (Geeks Gone Global - one to check out and invite in! http://geeksgoneglobal.com/ - Nadia I see Cairo Egypt on the first page…*winks and nods)
His process is one to check out for sure.
Glad the above rendering works for folk, its just something for guests to recognise the form and function of the group, I hope I define it reasonably well.
Nadia, Re: that conversation, (a great conversation well worth continuing), I have gone on to invite Tom into the loop in crowdfunding talks with us at the Community-Dev team at the P2PFoundation. Its was initially fruitful, you may have seen Michel posting out about ‘peer-funding’ with articles written by Tom in the past rephrasing crowdfunding as peer-funding, but after that initial impetus the conversatiopn dropped off. There is need of a designated organizational space for the team there…email lists are getting tedious, and not proving actionable. (I’ll breach the notion of a node here with them, lets see, perhaps Dorota could help with this)
And so how are we to continue the conversation? Maybe here is a good start. To recap the conversation for folk: we were sitting outside the Coffee Club by the Chiang Mai gate just a couple of hours after taxi’ing back in from the event. The taxi ride in had been great for everyone, a kind of instant decompression where everyone got to talk about stuff they loved, festivals, the tribes, projects, people, interests, obsessions and whatever else. After everyone packing out, and/or heading away there was Nadia, Oran, Tom and me left in the car and we agreed to meet in a couple of hours.
The conversation was great, it seemed like there was a very productive vibe and what came of that was this conversation about …well… about a whole lot to do with networks, the ones we know and take part in, and how to mutually align our networks in the same way the Oscars align initiatives to grow the profile of various actions or actors in the field.{sorry, its current, this didn’t come up in conversation, but it gets the point across 
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We talked about crowdfunding campaigns for a community awards program. We talked about publications to promote this, about reward systems and how we might do that…we talked about a lot. (Nadia help) The general gist is that we can use our networks to big up other networks with the purpose of bringing folk together to work collectively on the hard problems. The more and the better we do this, the more resilient, sustainable, even thrivable, the world becomes (right!?). The core potentiality was about a crowdfunding campaign that raised money through all networks with the purpose of awarding the whole lot to one network hub to help them develop their stuff, while also promoting the whole network of activity, as well as all networks in the process. The prize allocation would alternate every year with no single group allowed repeat wins or multiples within 3 year periods.
With regard to this relaying of the conversation, I must say that it was a relay in the real, and that I have left out loads. The details are not all here. Nadia, you can help fill it out, and we need to get Oran and Tom in here to see how this might play out also.
There was also mention of a grant system coming through a certain publication for writing articfles on cocreation, I can’t recall the name right now, but I think I sent Christina a message about it. I also wrote to the editor, Nancy, whom I met not so long ago, and tried to stoke an interest there, but nothing has come back from that…which I thought a bit odd. Christina did you get that mail? Sometimes my computer eats things.
And the magazine… I have a vague recollection of where the magazine fit into all of this. But too vague…
…need a little help!
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