<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Lauren Higgins</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lauren@laurenhiggins.com">lauren@laurenhiggins.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:48 AM<br>Subject: Creating MetaCurrency Together: Thank you and Next Steps<br><br><br><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear MetaCurrency Collabathoners, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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!!</span><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Progress is being made since the Collbathon, so we wanted to take this time to <b>1)</b> Re-connect all of you through this initial email <b>2)</b> Give you an update on some current "next steps" and, most importantly, <b>3)</b> Invite your deeper participation and feedback.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tech Team Updates:</b></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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" <<a href="mailto:eric@harris-braun.com" target="_blank">eric@harris-braun.com</a>>, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Participation:</b> </span></li><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The code is on github at <a href="https://github.com/zippy/anansi" target="_blank">https://github.com/zippy/anansi</a> and all issue tracking is happening on the tracker there:<a href="https://github.com/zippy/anansi/issues" target="_blank">https://github.com/zippy/anansi/issues</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 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.</span></li>
</ul></ul></div></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Next Steps:</b></li><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Jumping into streamscapes coding</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Writing documentation on what's already there.</span></li>
</ul></ul><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Team Updates for </b><b>MetaCurrency Awareness, Edu, and Communication:</b></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Participation:</b></li><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Lauren will be setting up 3 work sessions on these topics. If you would like to participate contact Lauren (<a href="mailto:lauren@laurenhiggins.com" target="_blank">lauren@laurenhiggins.com</a>)</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you are interested in developing any part of the conciousness tools, these early communication processes or something that has <i>not</i> 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!</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please feel free to organize your own session as well. All of this can develop in tandem!</span></li></ul></ul></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Next Steps </b></li><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Setting up work sessions to continue developing the following: </span></li>
</ul></ul></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><ul><ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Distill MetaCurrency principles, continue to refine </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">clear definitions of the problems from a technical perspective and gather writing about the technology breakthroughs that have </span><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">occurred</span></font></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop</span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the "Interaction Funnel" of how people approach, embody and participate in MetaCurrency.</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Begin to re-design/ update the web-site content and communication that follows these changes.</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The MetaCurrency Kickstarter</span></li></ul></ul></ul></div><div>
<div><div><ul style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></ul><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>A Collaboration Space for MetaCurrency: </b></span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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: </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Skype Chanel (s)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pivitol Tracker </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Google group</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Facebook Group</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brainpark</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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. </span></font></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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</span></font></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Future: </span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">What does MetaCurrency inspire in you? </span></b></div>
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</span></font></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you see next steps that were not outlined here please add them to the thread and take ownership of their future. </span></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We would love to hear any feedback you have about the Collabathon or your ongoing participation. </span></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's only the beginning. :)</span></div>
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</span></font></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Future Forward,</i></span></font></div></div>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Lauren Higgins and Mickki Langston</i></span></font></div>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>P.S. </i></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please add anyone who was not included in this original email if you see them missing. Thank you! </span></div>
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</span></div><font color="#888888"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- <br>Lauren Higgins<i><br><br></i>Organizer of All Things and Possibilities Cartographer<i><br></i><i>The MetaCurrency Project<br>
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