---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jose ramos <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:41 AM Subject: Reminder: City as a commons gathering at Village Well - 4th Feb 6:00pm – 8:30pm Dear friends This is a reminder of our meeting next week at Village Well, to have a conversation and connect on the theme of City as Commons. You all are invited, and also feel free to invite others who may be interested. Agenda includes - personal storytelling on commoning - the Bologna example of city commoning as an exemplar - break out groups on themes people want to work on - next steps which also include: Common Transition Coalition (Darren Sharp), Chamber of the Commons (David Week), City as Commons Policy Paper (Jose Ramos), other business and next steps people want to add. there will be nibbles generously provided by Village Well RSVP is essential so VW can figure out proper catering numbers! email [email protected] Please be on time or early Level 1/134 Flinders St, for Thursday the 4th of February 6:00pm – 8:30pm. Looking forward to our gathering of hearts and minds jose ********************** Dr. José M. Ramos pub: https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos linkedin: http://linkd.in/19h1V5h web: http://actionforesight.net tel: +(61)431-541-068 On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 2:21 PM, jose ramos <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi folks

Gilbert and I caught up earlier this week to discuss ways forward post masterclass etc, and wanted to keep the conversation going on the theme of 'City as a commons' that inspired both of us.

Gilbert has offered his space at Village Well - Level 1/134 Flinders St,

for Thursday the 4th of February 6:00pm – 8:30pm.

We want to start with storytelling, delve into the Bologna example, and do breakouts, as well as discuss the commons transition coalition. Basically getting to know each other, and then see what emerges.

Please see the attached flier and RSVPs go to Craig [email protected]

There is space for 20-30 people, and if you have other people in mind who you think should be there, pass on the email, they can also come.

Happy holidays or just happy break for everyone - peace and blessings for 2016.

Jose

********************** Dr. José M. Ramos pub: https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos linkedin: http://linkd.in/19h1V5h web: http://actionforesight.net tel: +(61)431-541-068

*May the foresight be with you...*

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Gilbert Rochecouste < [email protected]> wrote:

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Thx Serenity I will be catching up with Jose next week hopefully to discuss hosting a conversation at VillageWell in early feb re City as Commons. Will keep everyone informed. Exciting times. Gil

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On 11 Dec 2015, at 2:54 pm, Serenity Hill <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi everyone!

Just a follow-up from the masterclass event with Michel Bauwens on Sunday. There was another event with Michel in the afternoon "Mindful Uprising" (which some of you came to) and out of that was born a project that provides a framework for further connection as a group / discussion etc *See link below to the facebook group - there will be a button where you can "request to join".*

I think this is probably better than starting a separate email list. The plan was for Jose and Gilbert to kick off with a suggestion next steps. Jose was also involved in the below idea re commons transition coalition.

Gilbert - maybe reply to this email if you have an alternative suggestion?

Serenity 0411878063

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darren Sharp <[email protected]> Date: 9 December 2015 at 17:51 Subject: Formation of the Commons Transition Coalition To: Daryl Taylor <[email protected]>, Richard David Hames < [email protected]>, Laurent Labourmene <[email protected]>, Kirsten Larsen <[email protected]>, Serenity Hill < [email protected]>, Declan Kuch <[email protected]>, Bronwen Morgan <[email protected]>, [email protected], David Pecotic < [email protected]>, Sam Rye <[email protected]>, Gilbert Rochecouste < [email protected]>, Karl Fitzgerald <[email protected]>, [email protected], Adam Jorlen <[email protected]>, Antony McMullen <[email protected]>, Chris Watkins < [email protected]>, Theo Kitchener < [email protected]>, Julian Waters-Lynch < [email protected]>, [email protected], David Week <[email protected]>, Eric Doriean <[email protected]> Cc: jose ramos <[email protected]>, Michel Bauwens < [email protected]>, Sharon Ede <[email protected]>

Dear friends,

Just a quick update following on​ from the great weekend with Michel Bauwens and most of you.​ Thanks again to Richard, Laurent and Daryl for all your hard work​ on the Mindful Uprising People's Summit on Sunday in Melbourne.​ ​Thanks again of course to Michel! The whole weekend was inspiring and after many conversations with Michel and everyone in the community over three days (and for those that weren't there in person ​Sunday ​afternoon (Sam and others) we announced the formation of the Commons Transition Coalition to create a vehicle for aligned leadership and action for p2p, sharing/solidarity economy and commons-based groups in Australia and NZ (possibly beyond). Jose has agreed to provide a space for us to plan at Footscray Maker Lab in the new year (probably February) but in the mean time I am keen to create a url - what do people think of commonscoalition.org?

It's very early days but the idea might be for chapters in Melbourne (Jose, Darren, Kirsten & Serenity + others), Adelaide (Sharon Ede), Sydney (Declan & Bronwen), Canberra (David Pecotic), Brisbane (Michelle Maloney) and NZ through the Enspiral crew (Sam Rye) and others. I am keen to hear your thoughts and appetite for creating a charter together over the Summer. Sharon would be great if you could share your experience in developing this with ​the ​Post Growth Institute.

​It would be good to field ideas for jumping straight into some of the core strategic functions that could be created - e.g. what systems could we leverage to support the circulation of our time, skills and energies? - a social ecology of the commons / commoners to share and support each other, mapping the commons, as well as exploring and defining our purpose, governance and resource needs. ​

Please add your thoughts to this Google Doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VA48QO73141wD5lhsnxXWhlN7-y3snsp_pqkzqgklwQ/edit#> as a starting point and let's schedule a group Skype over the next few weeks ​(and meal together soon for those in Melbourne!) ​

I have also created a Facebook group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1106718069348108/> which we can use for planning, updates and coordination. Down the track I'd imagine a Loomio group will also take shape.

I look forward to co-creating the Coalition together with your ongoing participation and support!

Regards, Darren

Darren Sharp +61 419 314 655 [email protected] www.twitter.com/dasharp http://au.linkedin.com/in/dasharp/ skype: sharpdarren

-- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/