What do you think about our Meeting Notes July 27, 2011?

[Matt Mattila]

We met this morning to discuss website and next steps. Below are my notes. Please respond to the group if you have questions, comments, suggestions or if something is cryptic.

Thanks to those who made it out today. It was an interesting conversation and I'm excited about pursuing some of these ideas with you. I've shared this list with the intention of generating your interest and feedback. We need your participation to make this thing real. Please add your thoughts, we don't have any rules yet.

Matt

MEETING NOTES July 27, 2011

Attendees:

• Matt Mattila
• Adam Berk
• Cristian Fleming The Public Society cris...@thepublicsociety.com
• Ryan Rzepecki SocialBicycles ry...@socialbicycles.com

Discussion Highlights

• Website updates
• Cristian will review design elements and provide feedback:
• “the internet allows you to be as big as you want to make yourself look”
• great ideas on media action to drive interest
• many great ideas have been lost over time due to poor presentation, we need to ensure this isn’t SharedSquared
• Where SharedSquared can add value
• Ryan finds value in connecting with other founders who share challenges and often have innovative solutions
• an opportunity to connect Users with Providers in a form of online or meetup
• Grassroots shared advocacy
• a decentralized approach to supporting interests in the sharing space
• Education and outreach
• create a sharing directory of relevant organizations in NYC
• Cool Factor- help these generation not be defined by possessions, reinforce what is already becoming a trend
• Real projects
• connect idea people with people who like to code or physically operate projects
• connect with the opensource hardware and software players
• Ryan has connections and can help facilitate introductions
• Give the movement a local voice
• look at other relevant organizations and learn how they created successes
• Next steps
• continue courting people and ideas for the listserv
• discuss opportunities to present, meet, and share including meetups and conferences
• first round of website edits
• plan next meeting

[Devin Balkind]

Hi.  I must have missed the announcement about this meeting.  If I were there I've added the following:

Free/libre/opensource = sharing.  Sharing = free/libre/opensource. 

We need sharing applications that are open source and federated through a common API.  Shareable has a nice post about that API.

Over the next few years the integration of online applications and offline organizing will allow people to 'earn a living' in alternative economies that circulates currencies other than the Federal Reserve Note.  The focus of my work is to make that happen elegantly in New York and the Northeastern US.  This requires the development of multi-platform applications and regional community organizing.

My organization's website is here.  We will be relaunched in the next two weeks because - as was pointed out during your meeting - “the internet allows you to be as big as you want to make yourself look”

Looking forward to collaborating.

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Devin Balkind
@devinbalkind
vitamindwb.com

[Neal Gorenflo]

Really like what's emerging!

And just to add to what Devin said, what Shareable tries to do is
connect across many different parts of the sharing economy; from
entrepreneurs creating new sharing enterprises to the open source
community, transitioners, those working on poverty issues, the
solidarity economy folks, and more. We do this symbolically through
the content on our site which shows many approaches to share (both
commons and market-based), but are increasingly doing this through on
the ground organizing that Milicent is leading.

Not everyone from these communities will want to connect because some
are captured by a single narrative and see differences instead of
commonalities, but there are those that are flexible in their identity
and narratives about the world and see commonalities instead of
differences.

Shareable is interested connecting those people and groups. I believe
a radical center is emerging that is sick of partisanship but that
also wants radical change. For a radical center to emerge, there must
be a true appreciation of differences and commonalities. It should be
a big tent with no dogma or single ideology but broad shared goals for
the common good.

I'm only just getting to know many of you on this list, but y'all seem
to get this intuitively. Or am I off base?

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Neal Gorenflo | Publisher, Shareable | @ShareableDesign | 415.867.0429

[Jennifer Lackey]

Shared Square team!

Nice work on keeping this going and producing the beta website!

I do have a thought/ suggestion in reference to the content and presentation of the site. I think the logo looks great with the mirror image of Shared and I get the concept of the squared. However, since the group is called Shared Squared the Squared part isn't totally obvious to me, and I wonder if perhaps it might not be to others? Particularly to folks who are new to some these concepts.

I would suggest making sure you use the name Shared Squared within the first sentence of the paragraph to introduce Shared Squared.

Hope that helps -

All the best,
Jenn Lackey
KeyWifi Community Development Manager

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Matt Mattila <mat...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Adam Black]

Im with Neal

Your right on Neal

[Jennifer Lackey]

I'm 100% on this intuitive base.

Jenn

[Edward Hall]

+ 1 to Devin's suggestion.  Would be a major failure for a sharing hub not to use a Free/Libre/Open API.  I'm connected with the Solidarity Economies group of NYC as well.  I'd say meshing the FLO/GPL movement, sustainability, and community resilience is an unbeatable combination.  Steer clear of the "save money!" frame and toward "build a resilient community/family unit" 

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