#vnyc
2018-02-01
this sounds like a great person https://twitter.com/mollieruskin
mollie is, in fact, a fantastic human bean
how about whiskey wednesday meetup tonight? I'd like to go.
😬 i’m a super sleepy person today and gotta take a chill pill tonight. can do next week and or the next, etc. whiskeyallthetime.
too too busy here with looming trip to mexico next week
K y'all have convinced me to stay warm instead of going. :)
nooo. well. warm whiskey wednesdays, remote.
oi. Mad day for me too!! 😞
but yes to warm whiskey wednesdays, remote 🙂
mollie is, in fact, a fantastic human bean
oh hai, nyc. i am moving to you on saturday
where to?
Cordelia is caring for my plants 🙌🏾 and about to enjoy, or loathe, nyc walkups.
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2018-02-02
for how long?
the plan is to find a place in brooklyn. I can only promise that y’all have me for 2 years, renewable for two more, contingent on good behavior 😘
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Yay!!!! So excited to have you in nyc @thebestsophist
eeee thank you!
Hii, looking forward to hanging.
@thebestsophist
YES YES YESY
eeee thank you!
2018-02-03
Hii, looking forward to hanging.
@thebestsophist
2018-02-06
Folks - do we want to try to meet this week?
I think people are mostly away, right? Or just @itsmisscs and @lizbarry ? @darshana when do you head to Taiwain?
I'll be back!
@darshana and I are in Mexico this week. Carry on though
Wha! Just got back to toronto and I'm juuuuusst seeing this! Haha oh god, that would have been ridic if you'd been down too
2018-02-07
I got a demo. Not the best thing ever but it's improving. It currently relies on syncing contacts for email with Action Network
2018-02-08
Friday afternoon after lunch?
Is that a proposal for a meetup?
2018-02-09
yes?
I'm down. I'll be in midtown.
Unfortunately have a few meetings tomorrow afternoon. Don’t let that stop you guys from catching up though!
(anyone going to the better tech for a better congress discussion this evening?)
not planning on going to that
@katehnicholson @lizbarry could you both make it if we did it in the evening?
or at least later than the afternoon
Yah, do you guys want to join up for dinner? Casual catch up with a few others? I have plans to grab a bite at 7:30 with this girl i met during a layover. My buddy Alex also wants to hang so is coming along (@devin audio guy i tagged on your fb post). Location tbd, but was thinking upper west as Alex will be up this way and we might jam out after in harlem (which you’re all also invited to).
@lizbarry
@thebestsophist just hearing of it now -- very interested and would love to read your notes or hear a debrief. I have to prep for my class in the AM so i really shouldn't go anywhere tonight
for Friday afternoon, i might haul uptown to this http://c4sr.columbia.edu/news/ways-knowing-cities-conference -- i know a few of the presenters
ah unfortunetaly i already have Friday dinner plans with collaborator Philip Silva
Oh that thing at columbia looked interesting.
If you and philip want to join dinner plans, open to that.
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ah i would! but he and i are oooooooold collaborators and we have lots of catching up to do so gonna keep this one just us
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@lizbarry what kinda time do you think you’ll have between columbia event and dinner?
hmmmm not much there....what's your schedule
Could make time after 5:30/6
Tomorrow I've got a 5pm meeting in midtown so expecting to be free by 7.
Coolcool, @lizbarry let us know what time you’ll be leaving the upper west liz and maybe we can meet up in hells kitchen or near columbus circle. My dinner plans changed from having a time…to not ( the girl can’t make it anymore, so just winging it w alex). Flexible on my front.
Thanks Kate!!! I will write in here tomorrow
2018-02-10
Hey, just checking in.
howdy, how’s the conference
Hey, just finished teaching and a recovery lunch. I kind of exhausted myself working three projects yesterday and today (missed dinner and breakfast), don't think I'm even going uptown anymore.
No sweat, lady. Rest up and eat up.
If you folks want to engage with the "left" you might want to do a session at Left Forum: https://www.leftforum.org/
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left forum is great. are you going as the libertarian chair?
I've done empty sessions there before. Would happily do it again.
left forum is great. are you going as the libertarian chair?
Hi Friends, take a look at our friends and vInspiration https://g0v-tw.slack.com/files/U2PUXG69E/F95TXGC1E/image_uploaded_from_ios.jpg 👏🏾
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I've done empty sessions there before. Would happily do it again.
2018-02-13
@channel if anyone’s trying to go to this event w sidewalk labs at SIPA, at 620pm, here is a ticket:
Did anyone go? curious about thoughts.
2018-02-14
Looks like there was a tiny bit of twitter action w sidewalklabs and SIPA. Not sure if it was anything groundbreaking or just more, what’s up.
Probably some interesting folks though.
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``` Coop Fund is an experimental funding platform that accumulates financial resources through member subscriptions and redistributes funds through a cooperative decision making process. Established in early 2018, the organization's founding members are Elsa Brown, Emma Hedditch and Lydia Okrent.
Beginning tomorrow, Coop Fund is hosting a series of workshops at Artists Space with the expanded membership and other interested parties. These will be a place to further develop Coop Fund and its constitution. Each workshop will provide a basic introduction to Coop Fund, detailing how it was started and how it is set up at present.
Workshops will be held at the following times:
Wednesday, February 14, 7 p.m.
Membership
Wednesday, February 28, 7 p.m.
Governance
Wednesday, March 14, 7 p.m.
Proposals
Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m.
Future Plans
The capacity of each workshop is limited to 20 participants.
RSVP to attend at rsvp@artistsspace.org
For more information click here```
Beginning tomorrow, Coop Fund is hosting a series of workshops at Artists Space with the expanded membership and other interested parties. These will be a place to further develop Coop Fund and its constitution. Each workshop will provide a basic introduction to Coop Fund, detailing how it was started and how it is set up at present.
Workshops will be held at the following times:
Wednesday, February 14, 7 p.m.
Membership
Wednesday, February 28, 7 p.m.
Governance
Wednesday, March 14, 7 p.m.
Proposals
Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m.
Future Plans
The capacity of each workshop is limited to 20 participants.
RSVP to attend at rsvp@artistsspace.org
For more information click here```
2018-02-15
WNYC is talking about joining Community Boards, Gail Brewer and Eric Adams are recapping DeBlasio's speech and I hope someone addresses this new job DeBlasio mentioned creating "Chief Democracy Officer"
hm. loving these new titles. can we get a chief storyteller? detroit has one!
am also listening to this!
the CDO’s role is to tackle low voter turn out 👎🏾 and it will be appointed.
ooh. tho coop fund reminds me of the Enspiral Network
2018-02-16
Hey people, i just signed up for a few sessions during open data week march 3-10. Join up: https://www.open-data.nyc/
which ones did you sign up?
hm. loving these new titles. can we get a chief storyteller? detroit has one!
which ones did you sign up?
I was looking at these. I registered for the free ones. Will make my mind up about the others.
I love how there's no open data on their site. No iCAL feed for events, no downloads of partner info, no RSS news feed.
literally have to click 20-30 times on a little arrow to see all the parnters
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There’s Lotta work to do...
There’s Lotta work to do...
Ooo march 5 one I will def go to
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2018-02-17
There’s a VR headset at New Lab and the lab tech said he’d be more than happy to let us use it for holopolis
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@darshana @lizbarry ^^
Sweet!
How do we do it?????
Sweeeet!! That will be awesome :)
We just show up 🙂 i told him we’ll need to access it through steam and he said it was fine. i’ll reconfirm with #holopolis folks
my experience with holopolis+steam is that the holopolis server doesn't yet work with it -- hifi support seems to think they're running a dev version of server, but @sylin doesn't think that's the case
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
there's an open todo to figure it out. one sec. will dig link
ok, created an issue that won't disappear in slack backscroll 🙂
https://github.com/PDIS/holopolis/issues/4
https://github.com/PDIS/holopolis/issues/4
no one uses the space. he said they were trying to get more usage and seemed happy that we had a use case
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Grub Street
The Taipei street-food staple has everything you could ask for in a soup designed to serve as a meal. (Though we could do without the two-hour wait.)
Soooo good.
We should get back there soon
By the, I'm on my way to orbital @itsmisscs @lizbarry see you both soon!
i’m still at new lab. hoping to wrap up in next couple hours
I'm having a physical therapy check on my shoulders and ten heading down
sounds good! No rush on my end
I'm at the door, can u let me in?@
We opened up appear.in/vnetwork but we're not really doing anything yet :upside_down_face:
Fun - i’ll say hey in a bit
HIII. i see you but i don’t think you see me
2018-02-21
Hi everyone. Following up on our call Friday where we discussed a project-based organizing structure (discussed more here: https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-run-collaborative-projects-that-dont-fall-prey-to-bureaucracy) ... do you want me to set up some templates so we can play with using such a structure?
Shareable
Today, when people call something "bureaucratic," they usually mean that in a negative sense, but bureaucracy didn't always have this negative connotation. About 100 years ago when many professional bureaucracies were being built, they were seen as a means of bringing quality control, predictability, and integrity to administrations. But bureaucracy has taken on a life of its own since its inception, and now is often viewed as self-perpetuating itself in thoroughly mediocre and banal ways.
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Sure, show us some templates! And just to get clear, would you say the goal of this is to align our various pursuits/work/interests in a supportive way that helps them succeed and not get bogged down?
Yes and to give us a structure for getting other people with projects aligned with our work.
Creating a document like this is a first step: http://occupysandy.net/occupy-sandy-project-spokescouncil/
I can dig it. Think this is pretty similar to a lot of agile/lean methodologies and design- centric orgs. Manifestos > employee handbooks.
Do you have any thoughts on how it’s worked well in the past and how it hasn’t?
What do the others think? @lizbarry @itsmisscs @patcon @darshana
Do you have any thoughts on how it’s worked well in the past and how it hasn’t?
What do the others think? @lizbarry @itsmisscs @patcon @darshana
ALSO it’s SO NICE OUT .⛱️
Sure, show us some templates! And just to get clear, would you say the goal of this is to align our various pursuits/work/interests in a supportive way that helps them succeed and not get bogged down?
Yes and to give us a structure for getting other people with projects aligned with our work.
Creating a document like this is a first step: http://occupysandy.net/occupy-sandy-project-spokescouncil/
2018-02-22
I can dig it. Think this is pretty similar to a lot of agile/lean methodologies and design- centric orgs. Manifestos > employee handbooks.
Do you have any thoughts on how it’s worked well in the past and how it hasn’t?
What do the others think? @lizbarry @itsmisscs @patcon @darshana
Do you have any thoughts on how it’s worked well in the past and how it hasn’t?
What do the others think? @lizbarry @itsmisscs @patcon @darshana
ALSO it’s SO NICE OUT .⛱️