From talk to action paper: last call

@markomanka you are looking at it. Nothing else is written that I know of.

I think your section should initially be a story. “Someone got the idea to… and then this happened… seeing this, someone else made that other move…”. You know what, in the story, interests you. Your goal is to make others see it as you do. After the story is written, you could add 3-4 paragraphs of reflection, emphasizing (as you told me on the phone) how the “plumbing” laid out for the collaboration elicited common action, mutual support, commoning of strategic resources among the groups involved.

hmmm… am I ending up wearing the provoker’s hat?
…OK, let me focus on the pending deliverable to amend, and I hope I can get something out of it to trigger this other process… fingers crossed

Not at all! Unless you want to do it. When you told me your point of view, it did not seem like a provocation. It seemed like an intelligent, thought-provoking extrapolation from something you witnessed firsthand.

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I’m up for writing about Open Insulin. I have not been following this in detail so I would need to be briefed on what is expected specifically.

Roger that. We expect a story (see my reply to @markomanka above).

Still missing word from @federico_monaco.

count me in.
I can provide useful insights and some outcomes already about the ethnography at WeMake and the short but fruitful collaboration with @melancon on dynamic visualizations of opencare data.

Great. Given the time constraints, do co-authors accept to delegate @noemi and myself to set up a workflow? I suggest the tried-and-true Google Docs. Since we are unsure of where to submit (decision care of @ezio_manzini, but probably in the design academic space), there are few benefits in using Overleaf, which is what @melancon and I have been using.

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That’s good to hear. Let me know if you need to tweak the viz.

Reading your thoghts on LaTeX versus GDoc, I went to have a look at the journal we intend to submit at https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/social-science-computer-review/journal200948

and I read: “Social Science Computer Review requires electronic submission of manuscripts in Word .doc format” :slight_smile:

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That works. I’ve not been in academia long enough to master LaTeX but I’m up for learning if the learning curve is doable.

Dear authors @ezio_manzini @noemi @federico_monaco @markomanka @winnieponcelet, I prepared a shared document that encodes what we have been discussing (table of contents and instructions for fleshing it out) and assigns tasks as agreed. It’s here.

A first draft is completed when all the different parts are completed. Then, we will move on to tightening the screws – this will be mostly care of Ezio and Noemi. Don’t wait for others, start writing. We have arranged this so that you all can write your part more or less independently from others. We will polish the style in the second pass. Please do this by Monday 13th November. We want to have a submission of this paper before the end of 2017. Looking forward to reading you!

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I took a shot at it this morning. Looking forward to feedback.

Thanks @winnieponcelet!

Hei, I took a first shot at the sections assigned to me. I guess until @ezio_manzini fills in his parts there is little I can do - no point in editing too much now.

Looking forward to see it come together!

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Well done, No. Me too, looking forward.

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Hi @amer

onion does not contain insulin. Its peel is rich in a flavonoid subclass (quercetin derivatives), which is beneficial to blood pressure control, and insulin resistance ( = it does not substitute insulin’s activity, it somehow makes the tissue more responsive to insulin itself).

However, it is not a viable answer to diabetes mellitus type 1.

Many behavioural and dietary tweaks can be recommended in early stages type2 diabetes (e.g.: high intensity interval training, ketogenic diet, …among many, many others) and the choice mostly depend on evaluation of the patient, and her/his resilience+commitment+goals+fears… Some recommendations may not be well received due to social impact (e.g. in this specific case, the lingering smell), others due to the interference with a priority in the person’s life, etc… and because none is a silver bullet, things may be less commonly used than it would make sense to a single one of us, because maybe we do not represent the average weltanschauung in our populations of origin :wink:

I hope my reply makes sense to you.

…anyway, just one quick question: why is this posted in this thread?

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Where do I attach my section?

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Hi @markomanka - here is the google document with a structure but so far bits and pieces :slight_smile:

cc @ezio_manzini

Looking good! When should I expect to have more work on my contribution?

@amer as Marco points out, this is not the correct thread for this discussion. Here we are simply discussing about a paper some of us are writing. Maybe you can take this discussion up in the thread linked below:

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