I'm a visual thinker and social introvert. I've always avoided (static) conferences. Many years I have been focusing more on one-to-one meeting, and trying to hang out with as many types of personalities as possible (as a way of understanding the world and getting insightful input). Edgeryders had been my first conference. I guess that was because \#LOTE gave me a feeling of using less university-lectures-style-setup favoring a practice more like the alternative education and informal learning I got used to the last years.
#lote & \#edgecamp.
Insights:
#1 Edgeryders is an extremely diverse community
Felt it was a big diversity in what people did and who they were. This really created a good vibe in the group. Not only diverse interpersonal but intrapersonal. Most of us are interdisciplinary hybrids that are hard to pinch down to: one thing, one identity, one title. This leads to the need for the second point.
#2a Need for skill-mapping
In terms of presenting oneself I really feel that a majority have done so many different things with different fields so its hard to present yourself quickly. I think that we as a community would benefit alot from defining skills and make that visible to everyone. I believe that the digital have the possiblity to beat eye to eye discussions in that way. Creating a searchable/regroupable/clusterable/visual overview.
#2b Need for project-mapping
The same with the above point. Create an easy graspable overview of the projects we did online.
#2c Need for a quick access document for getting in contact with the edgeryders through different platforms.
#3 I want to know more HOW people work!
Though my work last year with Project of How http://projectofhow.com/ I've been very interested in HOW people do/work/creative, not just WHAT they do. As Ben mentioned in his report we started building up and then defining an idea called Co-Monasteries. From the discussion, Ben, Nadia & I sat down saturday night and just WROTE it down. Working together. Colaborating with Google docs, but I really liked the silent process of defining and once in a while talking about things we wanted to highlight. Benefits of digital collaboration (doing & creative solitude) with the benefits of working together physically (http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/mcafee/2012/01/the-surprising-benefits-of-sol.html).
#4 Follow-ups where we actually start to work together on projects.
#5 Overviews & summaries collected in one place!
Think we really would benefit from having skill- & project-mapping. Contacts list and ideas about new projects overviewable and easy accessable.
My question is how, how would we go about doing the skill and project mapping in a way that is ieasy to manage in a decentralised manner? The reason being it would have to be something maintained by community members, any ideas?
