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From:
Lauren Higgins <lauren@laurenhiggins.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:48 AM
Subject: Creating MetaCurrency Together: Thank you and Next Steps
Dear MetaCurrency Collabathoners,
First, a BIG thank you to everyone who participated in the MetaCurrency Collabathon. The event exceeded all of our expectations and we have your participation, enthusiasm and genius to thank for that!!
Progress is being made since the Collbathon, so we wanted to take this time to 1) Re-connect all of you through this initial email 2) Give you an update on some current "next steps" and, most importantly, 3) Invite your deeper participation and feedback.
Tech Team Updates:
For those who are interested in continued development of the MetaCurrency Tech tools, please contact Eric directly directly for coming up to speed and dev sessions, etc. He has had a few sessions with with folks from the Collabathon already . Send him a shout-out and dive into the code! "Eric Harris-Braun" <eric@harris-braun.com>,
- Participation:
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The code is on github at https://github.com/zippy/anansi and all issue tracking is happening on the tracker there:https://github.com/zippy/anansi/issues
- For coders Eric also monitors the #metacurrency channel on IRC @ freenode. There hasn't been any activity there in a long while but that will soon change and Eric would love for that to be an active channel.
- Next Steps:
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Jumping into streamscapes coding
- Writing documentation on what's already there.
Team Updates for MetaCurrency Awareness, Edu, and Communication:
This is refining the messaging, philosophy, and understanding of the MetaCurrency project by working on communications and further developing a platform for participation and educational opportunities that come from the project.
Angela Reininger has already begun to distill the information from the MetaCurrency site, the New Currency Frontier Blogs and Collabathon sessions to formulate a set of principles that will help to communicate the guiding framework of MetaCurrency. Alex Au and Lauren have been meeting to further refine a strategy or "Interaction Funnel" for how people travel from awareness of the project, into participation in the project through the embodiment of the MetaCurrency framework and tools into their daily lives.
- Participation:
- Lauren will be setting up 3 work sessions on these topics. If you would like to participate contact Lauren (lauren@laurenhiggins.com)
- If you are interested in developing any part of the conciousness tools, these early communication processes or something that has not been named here, please add this to the pool! This could be anything from writing about MetaCurrency, working on the Kickstarter, helping update the website, or helping us finds ways to make the project more sharable with the world. Everything counts!
- So far, we have started a MetaCurrency google doc folder where we can share notes and collaborate on documents together. Contact Lauren if you would like to be added. Soon we should have some kind of google group, facebook group, etc where we can "be" working and sharing together.
- Please feel free to organize your own session as well. All of this can develop in tandem!
- Next Steps
- Setting up work sessions to continue developing the following:
- Distill MetaCurrency principles, continue to refine clear definitions of the problems from a technical perspective and gather writing about the technology breakthroughs that have occurred
- Develop the "Interaction Funnel" of how people approach, embody and participate in MetaCurrency.
- Begin to re-design/ update the web-site content and communication that follows these changes.
- The MetaCurrency Kickstarter
A Collaboration Space for MetaCurrency:
In the coming week we hope to establish a few spaces where we as a group can continue to "be" with each other online, share information, and keep up-to-date with the momentum of development for the project. The following have been proposed:
- Skype Chanel (s)
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Pivitol Tracker
- Google group
- Facebook Group
- Brainpark
We may want 1 space for the entire group and then allow the tech and other individual project teams to create the channels that work best for them.
We will work with Arthur in the coming we to chose something basic to start with to keep us connected. If you have any ideas or preferences please share them.
Future: What does MetaCurrency inspire in you?
If you see next steps that were not outlined here please add them to the thread and take ownership of their future.
We would love to hear any feedback you have about the Collabathon or your ongoing participation.
It's only the beginning. :)
Future Forward,
Lauren Higgins and Mickki Langston
P.S. Please add anyone who was not included in this original email if you see them missing. Thank you!
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Lauren Higgins
Organizer of All Things and Possibilities Cartographer
The MetaCurrency Project
metacurrency.org
Director
Yes, AND...? Program, Communikey Festival 2011
http://communikey.us/festival2011/