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=Attendees=
* Yael, Yahel, Aaron, Freeman, MaxB, Jenny, Rikke

=Key points=
* Burning Man (camping in style)
* Internet-enabled education
* "Burning Man with fast Internet"
* Manchester Pomo Rancheria
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Band_of_Pomo_Indians_of_the_Manchester-Point_Arena_Rancheria
* Stornetta family ranch
** Huge area, part near the beach is being donated to the feds for a national monument

* Core question: securing land for the event

=Intention/Intro=
* Freeman: Open to all audiences, would love to see students/startup kids/coders 17-30
* Yahel: egoistic - De Novo humanitarian project; local community [tribe, Irish Beach retirees; high schoolers/youngsters; what the Internet can do for you
** Tap into local organizations, creating partnerships with them
* Yael: Internet as bridging rather than dividing generations; involving families; connecting the elders
* Aaron: What would the rest of the world use high-speed internet for?; why would rural people want to get on the Internet? research questions :)
* Yael: Internet as bridging rather than dividing generations; involving families; connecting the elders
* Aaron: What would the rest of the world use high-speed internet for?; why would rural people want to get on the Internet? research questions :)
* Jenny: Connect to the tribe? Documenting stories, cultural preservation, co-learning, urban hacker/maker respite,
* Max: Pulling down the culturally-created curtain of mystery around the tools people use every day; that we feel like we can't touch or don't feel confident touching / deconstructing - facilitating familiarity with tools - deeply skeptical of Burning Man - more interested in things that are transformative after the Thing is over; positive and useful change for communities that we have good relationships with
* Rikke: Appropriate technologies / environmentalism, way too many hours in a lab; lived in Mendocino County w/ satellite uplink, trying to figure out a backhaul across several ridgelines straight west, lived part of childhood in Tanzania so familiar w/ underserved communities; research on deployment of IT in rural subsaharan Africa.

=Details=
* 100-1000 people for 2-4 weeks
* Populations: Locals, hacker/makers, academic people as well, marijuana workers
** Skills to earn money while they travel
** Community "under siege" - people are bristly during harvest season

=Outstanding Questions=
* What's in it for the local community?
* What's the long-term benefit?
* What other historically disadvantaged communities could we also help?
* Examine ICT4D research;

=Discussion=
* Success defined as having fun
* More important to have clear questions than clear organizers
* Definitely start thinking about fencing

=Ideal Numbers=
* Yahel: Low thousands - how do you stop it?
* Rikke: 12-1400 people; has helped organized festivals with 75-95,000 people in Europe
* Freeman: Thousands for a full month too much - passing through, yes; capping it at $1K at any given time; 100-220 stayers [scenesters]; fluxes
** 2-day passes, day passes, week passes etc;
* Max: Tickets? Paid? Fences?
* Jenny: would like to keep it 'village sized' with some events or summer-camp style weekend workshops
* Rikke: First group of people will build it for you, should be free. Second group should be promoted to, need to have an idea of a target audience --> But then you need to deliver.

=Key Considerations=
* Water Supply
* Sanitation
** Portipotties
* Energy
** None? Solar?

=Visions=
* Yael: Cloud Computing (in the foggy foresty coast)
* Chaos Computer Camp
* Students from UC Berkeley
* Learning / Workshops / etc
* What if we could offer learning camps then extend to DIY
* Berkeley / Stanford classes for accreditation crossing over to other realms of uninstitutionalized knowledge
* Teaching things where having access to high-speed internet combined with these kinds of knowledge
* Natural Building, Yoga, Dance, etc should also be prioritized in some manner
* That maybe we need to cultivate around a form of 'networking technology' that expands beyond the technical to the human relations that create those networks
* That we could smudge it to knowledge sharing
* That we could expand it to a healing relationship with the internet that demands balence, symbiosis
** Put a university in the woods for a few days
** We bring you a university for a few days

=Organizing=
* Showers
* Portapotties
* Water!

=Action Items=
* Two-pager to give to community stakeholders
** Why?
** Content - what sort of activities
* Check in w/ Mendo Mini Maker Faire (Rikke)
** Where is the local Mendo maker community?
* 10-line pitch to solicit personal invitations [Yahel]

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