March/April 2018 meetup

Just a reminder, this is today! (Assuming Loomio notifies you before the event passes!)

Thanks to all those who came - a slightly bigger group this time, seven people.

Overall IIRC the discussion initially centered around explaining what "P2P" means to those unfamiliar with the term.

Additionally, some topics I captured in my notes:
- @roryg noted that there will be an Open Knowledge Meetup on May 7th (feel free to post full details, which I don't have).
- Someone mentioned the Journal of Peer Production, the last issue of which (#11) is co-edited by @pennytravlou
- @roryg knows someone who set up a directory of local manufacturers, make.works, an example of a knowledge commons
- I think Marek mentioned Small is Beautiful related to the fact he's working building huts on the Falkland Estate, Fife.
- The Real Junk Food Project
- SMART (which I can't recall enough about to find with google)

Later it moved on to what we'd like to do in future meetings, and maybe what else if anything we might achieve. For instance there might be scope for something in the Edinburgh festival season, and one of @roryg's earlier suggestions for a P2P group was that a festival might be a medium to longer term goal.

WRT future meetings, whatever we do should ideally require little or no funds (since we haven't any) and not too much organisational burden (since that tends to be hard to sustain).

One idea is to show films and then have an open discussion. The problem is that most bars, The Outhouse included, aren't very suitable for that. The Outhouse has an upstairs space for events with a projector, but typically also charges and/or requires a deposit (deductible if not enough sales are made on the bar).

So perhaps we could get some suggestions for places to meet which permit this without fees.

@pennytravlou had a suggestion for a film: "Building Communities of Commons" trailer here about building (mesh?) networks in the Sarantaporo, Greece. However we might want to come up with a few more.

Please post suggestions on the relevant threads linked here (rather than here):
- Suggested meeting places
- Suggested films or topics

Related to @roryg's news of an Open Knowledge Meetup on May 7th, I see there's a couple of talks on Open Knowledge/Data at the FLOSS UK conference in Edinburgh, this April 26th and 27th (Thurs and Friday).

• Exploring the Open Knowledge Landscape (Lorna Campbell, University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK)
• Climate Change in One Line: Can Open Data and Open Source Solve Humanity’s Greatest-Ever Environmental Threat? (Professor Roy Thompson, FRSE)

Regular tickets cost £150, unfortunately, however they have concessions.

Thanks for these, I'm busy those days but appreciate sharing relevant links / events

I'm not sure how the threads work on Loomio, so hope this is the right place for this comment, following the meeting on Monday 26th. First, I am only part local, next week I move back to my other home, Block Island, USA and intend a brief return to Edinburgh in September. I'll try to keep in touch and supportive through Loomio.

Second, I mentioned an irish site Feasta http://www.feasta.org/ well worth a look.
I have tried before to list all the sites I find: https://wp.me/P1KgFC-qc - a muddle but I have looked at them all in some depth. I just added P2P. I will get aroun dto looking at Open Knowledge too - any more suggestions?

best wishes, Elspeth