After the geek team, the facilitation team


February 10, 3:30 pm Pacific Time, in Fernanda's synch room

Last week, the geeks of Nexus had a real-time meeting over the net, using audio and text chatting, electronic whiteboarding, voting and polling, to advance a meeting agenda packed with many exciting topics. They were exciting because they can lead to new capabilities for all of us to connect with one another, grow friendships and projects together. We spent three rich hours online, and Fernanda is working on the meeting harvest...

Some of the burning questions expressed in that session were not technology focused, e.g.:
How can we nurture more content and social interaction on the Nexus site?
What are the priorities to others? People not in this conversation?
What will bring people to the site?

Those questions triggered the idea for a similar, real-time meeting of those who may want to hold the space for our online community and facilitate the emergence of its collective intelligence, i.e.: its capacity to create the future that it strives for."

The above paragraphs and more was posted in the Community Facilitation topic. See who is coming, and if you want to be on the team or on the meeting, add your comment there

yes!

Thanks Bill for your comment here! As someone who puts myself on different sides of the divide in different contexts, removing the divide sounds like a great (necessary) idea -- starting with the language, attitude, and moving into the tools, community...

From geek to person....

 I do not count my self as a geek, and I think it trivializes folks on both sides of the divide brought into being by the word.  I have watched people like Sherri and Kaliya enter into the tech world because as non technically trained people they saw the power of the tools to advance us.  They had to be very courageous and push those communities to speak in humanly understandable ways, and  they have done so gracefully.  The other side of the coin is that geeks get objectified as those who will do the work for us “non’s” (non geeks that is).  In my experience as a tech person, I have had way to much expectation put on me to fix or explain things, because people “need” me or my abilities rather, and my personhood disappears...

 

One of the reasons for riseup’s success as a collective has been that we see our selves as activists helping to supply technology to other activists.  It has allowed us to develop a political culture in which tech trained and non tech trained can work together in our domain. 

 
I look forward to the next time in the synch room 

In Spirit and Solidarity ...

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