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Fri 28 Feb 2020 3:32AM

Holo-REA 2020 strategic plan (ideation)

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In our call today I've been asked to put together some strategic outline of where I see Holo-REA moving this year. I must confess that's sort of a difficult ask for me- I have taken a "flow based" approach to life over the past ~5 years and have been working well in a receptive, mostly reactive paradigm. What that means though is that I'm not really in control of my life and I never know what's going to be happening next week, let alone next year 馃槀 Soooo with that in mind, let's give this a shot...

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Carolyn Beer Fri 28 Feb 2020 2:50PM

Hey @pospi for sure! I regularly hear interest from folks about Holo-REA. My first idea is to do something like a mini-DevCamp, a series of online calls in which folks can get trained up and familiar with Holo-REA. It is great that you will be going to some hackathons in Europe and if there is interest, I would encourage you to do Holo-REA session/presentations at each of those. I bet Meetup communities would also loveeeee the opportunity to hold an event around a video call where you do a short presentation. Perhaps there are other ways? What do you think? Do you wanna call to do a brainstorm on this or...?

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Sid Sthalekar Fri 28 Feb 2020 7:41AM

+1 for a core group of practitioners.

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Sid Sthalekar Fri 28 Feb 2020 7:41AM

Mattermost has worked for us in the past. Might be worth considering. But in general, yes I do think choice of platform is a balance of pragmatism/idealism.

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pospi Fri 28 Feb 2020 3:32AM

We have a product that is workable for developers now. So #1 focus feels like developer exposure, workshops & training. The project is understaffed technically and more interested parties would definitely help with that.

  • In the short term, I'd like to explore some processes for sparking online communities, probably with @Carolyn Beer & Bear. Not taking this on has been one of my bigger failings- setting up spaces to "catch" interested parties is definitely necessary. This is probably largely a "service exploration", there are things like eg. Telegram that are really terrible and morally bankrupt but that everybody seems to use. So there's a balance between pragmatism and ideology to be had.

  • Longer term, something that comes to mind is training up domain experts on REA accounting, and training "traditional" web developers in using the framework. We lack a core group of practitioners who can educate and spread this work in their own communities.