Internet Learning Festival/Meeting 1

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12 Aug 2014

Attendees

  • Yael, Yahel, Aaron, Freeman, MaxB, Jenny, Rikke

Key points

  • 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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