run comrade
meetup!
Eleni turned me onto this months ago, but I never took a close look until now that I am writing the Competitors section of my workshop report.
I totally love this group! I should have made my workshop project to be how to make THEM more popular.
From what I can tell, they are more like a free for all though. I couldn't find any sort of mechanism for referencing people or vouching for people. Which is in line with their stance I guess: one of self-organization. I suppose you could say that this is what my very first ideas were like for my project before David got me to push through and think about how a little structure really could help things move along.
Read their manifesto if I haven't shared it with you already because c'est adorable!
Let's be fearless.
Let's exercise our human right of assembly. Let's exploit it big-time.
Let's use the Internet to get people off the Internet.
Let's bring back the handshake. The verbal debate.
The smile. You know, some good ol' face-to-face,eye-to-eye contact.
When people get together amazing things happen.
They advocate, argue, learn, laugh and share.
Let's be a group. Let's be a real group.
Groups have a history of making history. People unite, motivate, activate and mobilize.
Groups give us the power to face a health crisis, start a political movement, pursue a passion, launch a business, and turn strangers into friends. To be bigger than ourselves.
Let's step away from our screens for a moment.
Do without the PC, the TV and the phone. People are more powerful than pixels. A real group can beat up a virtual group any day of the week.
Let's find the others. The ones that want the same thing.
Let's meet in real time, in real places, and make a real difference.
Let's Meetup.
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In addition to meeting up (:P) with Vince, Gwen's friend, once I get to Montreal, I think I might throw myself into this system and see what happens. Also the place I might sublet sounds like it's something amazing. Melanie just wrote to let me know that it is a quasi-converted commercial building into a loft thing with lots of open shared spaces.. .I dig it!
k back to work.
meetup!
Eleni turned me onto this months ago, but I never took a close look until now that I am writing the Competitors section of my workshop report.
I totally love this group! I should have made my workshop project to be how to make THEM more popular.
From what I can tell, they are more like a free for all though. I couldn't find any sort of mechanism for referencing people or vouching for people. Which is in line with their stance I guess: one of self-organization. I suppose you could say that this is what my very first ideas were like for my project before David got me to push through and think about how a little structure really could help things move along.
Read their manifesto if I haven't shared it with you already because c'est adorable!
Let's be fearless.
Let's exercise our human right of assembly. Let's exploit it big-time.
Let's use the Internet to get people off the Internet.
Let's bring back the handshake. The verbal debate.
The smile. You know, some good ol' face-to-face,eye-to-eye contact.
When people get together amazing things happen.
They advocate, argue, learn, laugh and share.
Let's be a group. Let's be a real group.
Groups have a history of making history. People unite, motivate, activate and mobilize.
Groups give us the power to face a health crisis, start a political movement, pursue a passion, launch a business, and turn strangers into friends. To be bigger than ourselves.
Let's step away from our screens for a moment.
Do without the PC, the TV and the phone. People are more powerful than pixels. A real group can beat up a virtual group any day of the week.
Let's find the others. The ones that want the same thing.
Let's meet in real time, in real places, and make a real difference.
Let's Meetup.
=====
In addition to meeting up (:P) with Vince, Gwen's friend, once I get to Montreal, I think I might throw myself into this system and see what happens. Also the place I might sublet sounds like it's something amazing. Melanie just wrote to let me know that it is a quasi-converted commercial building into a loft thing with lots of open shared spaces.. .I dig it!
k back to work.