If the scope and limits would be cleared?..
Hi Francesco,
I do share most of your “blurry thoughts and feelings”.
I guess I didn’t had so great expectations about Lote3 meeting, and that my prespective on unmonastery has been from start a bit like: looking from the outside and see how it goes…
(as I only arrived to this community in August, the “unmonastery dice” were already rolling for quite some time).
For instance, things like the name “unMonastery”.
(Though I do understand the idea explained on Sam’s interview to Ben)
For Materanis, I have the feeling that “unMonks” coming from the “unMonastery”,
will much probably be looked at kind like aliens comming from the outter space, if you know what I mean.
This is just a first (small?) detail on the image we “as outsiders global representatives” might be transmiting to the common Materani.
I also identify with your concerns and questions about management of money,
the roles of everyone (who is getting paid and who is volunteering)
and the lack of a clear economic model.
This topics seem very central for present or future Edgeryders projects:
to bridge the Edge with the main stream capital economic flow reality,
there has to be transparency and it has to be clear.
Why some tasks are paid and others aren’t?
(small example: LOTE3, was a Edgeryders meeting on Matera with the intension of promoting the unMonastery. I imagine because of this fact, if I understood right, Matera2019 paid some goods, printing the flyers and also two ladies were paid to clean the neighbor building…
Ok, why this specific tasks? Why not including effords made by edgeryders to bring local people to Lote3, or graphic design, or cleaning the main building, or any other kind of task? I mean, was it just because someone offered to do them? what about If some one had volunteered their services? Or offered some goods?.. how would the money be spent then? Now imagine this with bigger questions and matters…?
(does this make any sense to anyone else?)
It does seem there is something missing… lack of detail / structure of the budget?..
This fact ends up bringing possible unfair or undesiered situations.
(Alberto mentioned this and this, relating to the importance and need of having a clear budget,
I agree and believe any project has this need… - though on that case was relating Chefare application.)
Relating the - Lack of real and strong connections with the local community - you’ve mentioned…
As Noemi once said: “The hardest part of a community is getting members to participate. not join, participate.”
Imagine local people who did not choose even to join?.. How to motivate people to participate?
I believe this is a greater challenge… How is this thing done?
Is it important to addressed and discuss this questions?
Let me say that in spite of that,
I still believe this project is valuable and important as a first approach to these topics.
Question: If the scope and limits of this opportunity would be cleared, could it help to bring some prespective?..
Answering to questions like:
What are the expectations for the project unMonastery?
What’s expected to be achieved within this 4 months?
Are there any defined goals?
How will it be measured?
What has to happen, so to enable in the end to be said:
It succeded in these didn’t suceed in that?
What can nevertheless be done with the actual context?
What is doable and expectable for you and for the unMonastery project in general?
(and hope I’m not being unfair to all of the work that has already been volunteered and done on this project!)