Idea factory: How can you help to create the first place of a network of autonomous places based on blockchain to support citizens, entrepreneurs, learners, explorers, creatives and digital nomads?
Dear steemians,
As you might have realized, I decided to not go to the steemit meetup in Munich* with my friend @manncpt neither with @reconnectnature who offered gently to join him in car for the trip. This for several reasons, some obvious, some probably less visible. Indeed, I did not find help in time to take in charge the student while traveling to Munich. Also, I realized that I could not really afford it. Even if I planned to eventually make it possible by posting about a self-challenge that I still want to realize when I will have the time “How I used only steem to travel and live for a week” and for which you can find the draft on google drive on simple request. I needed to be pragmatic and check on the priority. Being there for the last days of the participant of the first cycle of the @globalschool and be sure they are enjoying or even make a small impact useful for their future.
*Participant of the Munich meetup? If you are reading this article and will participate I wish you a great time and please, make some nice pictures and a sign, I would loved to meet you there ;)
On the side of this, these last days, I am talking with Wolfgang on which steps to make next about “the platform”, the last iteration of a project we initiated some years ago with some friends under the name of the “Idea factory”. I would like to show my commitment in making this project happening. However, my situation for the moment is little bit complicated and I really have difficulties to make the @globalschool a reality of everyday without suffering a bit in my budget. The last award received for an application at the AWS related to the Global School will only be accessible end of March if not later.
So, for this commitment, I need to find new supporters as I can’t really afford to take time for this while I am already volunteering 30 hours a week with the global school participants. However, I do this by choice, or conviction and try to join the sides. This is why I am taking the initiative to publish this new serie of posts about the “Idea Factory”. To involve you and invite you to become an active supporter or a contributor for this social project to take steps.
March is approaching fast! Next month as planned for a little while with my good friend, social business partner @wolfgangsieberth, co-founder of @generationeuropa and co-initiator of the @globalschool, and with the help notably of my friend @manncpt, we are planning to launch a first autonomous place project based on blockchain.
To start as we raised the budget for the caution and the rent as well as a small budget for the installation and limited resources, we will have only the space with a simple offer for renting a spot in the coworking space or in the guest-house. Faithfully with the help of new contributors such as developers, people able to communicate well about the project and active supporters we will faster able to implement the next steps by including the tools that allow this automation and use the blockchain.
Goals
- Have a space to host regularly the #globalschool workshops and contributors;
- host volunteers, project developers, digital nomads or creatives in residence;
- offer hosting for travelers and supporters to become social impact investors;
- allow the space to be accessible as the modern car-rental services via unlocking via a phone app;
- make possible to use the blockchain for example steem dollars to consume/exchange services and goods within the space as well as to make creative report to share on steemit or dtube by using the app which will also be available via tablets in the space.
The spaces
The #HugInnVienna
View from the #HugInnVienna.
The platform
Lets make together places to share our experiences our online experiences offline!
As we want to be sure to launch this project we are still looking for places in Vienna, we found another 180 sq meters flat with a big room for workshops, a nice living room close by as well as 4 big bedrooms which would allow to host big groups of students, but it seems that the 20th district where the place is located is probably not the most practical for the target group we thought. So we are still searching actively, and we will keep you informed on our findings! Maybe you can help us to select ;-)
The software
In some days with the students, exploring the pro and con of the system in the coworking we were hosted works and making some researches we found some possibilities using the Android API, collected the info and made a small presentation as well as generated the coworking building in 3d as well as starting to generate the #HugInnVienna with the idea to make usable for a next group of contributors who would like to continue these projects with us in the future.
Are you a developer ? Would you be interested to cooperate on making this app based on steem? Please contact me if you are interested!
The participants of the IT workshops end of November 2017 at the Global School in Vienna.
Working on the 3d map project.
My friends and colleagues are still little bit sceptical with the idea to publish these ideas on the steemit platform. However, I believe that we can find some help here and real people interested to develop this project. By externalizing and communicating, maybe it is possible to engage some active contributors to make the project better that we could with our limited resources and personal constraints. If together we can demonstrate that is possible to cooperate to co-create a first open source autonomous place based on blockchain with the participation of local and remote contributors, we might have a great activity to develop further!
Next steps
- Invite the active creative community with whom I am already enjoying to contribute to join the creation of the offline platform based on steem (open to other crypto too).
- Contact all the partners of @generationeuropa and ask them if they would support the project by pre-booking the space for their future camps and workshops venue and accommodation.
- Get the space and get an accreditation to host volunteers with @generationeuropa
- Involve as many steemian as possible by asking them to upvote, resteem and talk about the project around them to find new supporters and contributors!
- Publish regularly the backstory of the project on @globalschool to raise more awareness about this project, Idea Machine, Idea Factory and iAme!
Contribute
If you like this initiative and want to contribute, please feel free to follow one of these ideas or feel free to communicate yoursIdea 1: you are speaking another language? As @manncpt, help to make our contents available in your languages. Feel free to translate this article. You can select in these hashtags #autonomous-space #social-impact-network and please add the #globaschool hashtag to be found by the other new contributors!
Idea 2: you are creative? Join @alexandravart team, together we already started some visuals to raise awareness about the @globalschool, but not yet about this project. We need some visuals to communicate about it, hope you can find some inspiration and post them using the hashtag #codesignfuture!
Idea 3: you are developper? You can use the steem API or know more about how we can use github and utopian.io? I am not bad in prototyping but not really good in coding properly and a beginner with the steem API as well as with utopian! So, we definitely need your help to make this project a reality! Use the hashtag #iame and make us know your interest in this project with a short proposal on the features you would like to contribute to start organizing the development.
Idea 4: you have experience in business or laws and like this idea, share with us your inputs to make an efficient social business model and improve our values propositions!
Idea 5: you are a good networker or communicator or have experience on social media and specially on steemit? Or even just really really motivated such as @wolfgangsieberth, @manncpt, @alexandravart or me? Become an ambassador of the @globalschool, publish about the projects, its evolution and related topics.
Idea 6: you knows ways or have experience to raise funds and awareness for social project or to make efficient social impact campaigns? Please, help us and show the way!
Support by pre-booking and using steem dollars
In the next posts I'll try to find out together how to price the space and how to reward the offline contributors such as the people who will clean and operate the place, eg shoping, support, etc! (as hopefully we can count on the utopian community to support the software part and the creative community with the help of @slothicorn, @stellabelle, @alexanravart, @ccommons.art and all the friends of the @creative-commons community!).- Contact me to know more about the space available and how you can prebook using your steem dollars
- Prebook a spot in the coworking area using steem dollars
- Prebook a bedroom for one up to 16 persons in the guest house
- Apply as resident (in a single room or shared room) for a longer period of time
You have a space and you like this project? Contact me to host the next autonomous space and get a view on the business model and value proposition!What do you think about this idea? Please upvote, resteem and reply if you like it!
Thank you for your participation! I am looking forward to cooperate with you to make this project happening!
Best,
Jean
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Yes here we go. It all just makes soo much sense and it will be interessting to see if we can communicate well our mission. In my dreams, I would like such places, co-working spaces, open laboratories, networking tools to be the standard of our future education. Parents in the future should not only have the choice to send their children to a "normal" school, but to send them to well coordinated co-working spaces were they have the chance to learn and explore with a bottom-up aproach. Oh man, actually, just now, again I got a bit of a portion of motivation more to do it :)
It is so good to hear that you are planning this project! I totally agree that children should get additional chances like this one. Looking forward to more.
Oh I am so happy to read you! I m really appreciating to explore your rich reply and jump on the occasion and motivation to ask you if you could develop with a nice post.
Would be awesome to use the motivation you have now to publish regularly like 1 time a day about the evolution of the project as I am publishing too much and would like to reduce the quantity of my posts to not ask my supporters, specially those who are auto-voting to loose all their power by voting only for my posts ;-) It will bring you new readers and surely motivate you even more, and maybe help to find new supporters for the project! To motivate you, I'll share with you the reward I get for the payment proof of the introduction post I made to welcome you as soon s you published your 1st #globalschool and especially "the platform" related post ;-)
Thanks again for making the @globalschool a reality by hosting the project under @generationeuropa and making it happenning mindfully! I am glad that we started that together and have your trust from the beginning!
Will do. Always love to spread good news and good ideas. Have been reflecting a lot about our education system and supported my children who got very frustrated, too. I suffered a lot but had excellent trainers, especially later on, as well. However, education remained a side topic for me. Maybe because both my parents were teachers and I wanted to become everything but not a teacher. However, I had my trainer education and held workshops and seminars. So, this is some more personal background.
I saw that there are really two more blogs @globalschool and @generationeuropa
Posting one post daily on my blog perhaps might bore my followers who joined me for my culture mix - this bunch of topics from travel to art, from music to philosophical questions, from narrations to fantasy stories...
What I can offer, however, is a mix of PR activities such as commenting, networking, forwarding your project, resteeming once in a while, writing to relevant topics and recommending your project(s).
A combination like this is more natural and usually proves to be more effectful.
The more people speak about your project the better. Like your students in your global school six days ago.
For the world outside the Steemit universe I will need your „outer data“, that is your real contact address and how to get notice about a Global School program - application, fees...
You can contact me via mail, too, if you prefer. You find my data on my Steemit Burgenland Academy website. Give my regards to @wolfgangsieberth whom I hope to get to know soon. Once more it needs to be said that I like your art work.
Have a nice day!
Wow, great ideas and plans! Resteemed. Remains on my desk, so-to-speak.
Your ideas 2, 4 and especially 5 are fields where I‘d like to join. But my To-Do-List is never-ending and that‘s why I can offer only some humble support for your idea number 5.
Will study all these inputs, links... In general, a fantastic pilot project and Vienna seems a promising place.
The Steemit Burgenland Academy which we founded, seated in the Southern Burgenland, can only serve in a very simple and very reduced way.
And of course it cannot be compared to your innovative blockchain project!
However, the basic idea is similar - information, education, networking and being a real base. I am lucky because for this project no money is required!
#networking: can be done well with a label like „Academy“!
Looking forward to news.
I am always so happy to read your enthusiasm and message. To be honest, I kept to read it for this moment with another wonderful and encouraging message I received earlier from @slothicorn, both of them are bringing in me the peace and serenity I couldn't expect. I'll use this magic to go to sleep right now and be inspired, thank you!
Tomorrow I'll try to explore more about The Steemit Burgenland Academy and will go again throught your motivating feedbacks! I am looking forward to cooperating with you and for reading your precious inputs, so I'll post news to go this way and keep you updated! All the best, Jean =)
Thank you for your nice feedback! You activities are full of energy and your blog is so rich! Of course I will follow your projects and report about them and comment them.
Thank you for the sharing, I'm going to check right now! =)
This sounds like a fantastic project. I'm a developer but unfortunately not in the steem API or utopian.io
I don't really have very much spare time either at the moment, however when I do get some I'll try to teach myself about those and then hopefully one day I'll be in a position to contribute.
Good luck
Thank you for your mindful reply. I'll be happy to cooperate with you whenever you'll find some times and wish youalso good luck with learning about steem API and utopian, I am sure you'll be able to make prodigious dev with these skills! I am also learning about it and prototyping a lot. Maybe we can share some tricks when we found out something interesting ;-) I am looing forward to read you again and can't wait the day you'll come back sharing you new skills and maybe I'll come back earlier to you if we need any other kind of dev! All the best, Jean
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