Microsolidarity Practice Week
Nati and I got caffeinated yesterday and decided we want to host a "practice week": one call per day for 5 days, a space to meet other Microsolidarity people and learn some group practices together.
https://www.thehum.org/microsolidarity
We will love to see some of you there if you want to learn with us how to do more peer-to-peer support in your organisation/community/network.
Option 1: There's a US/EU friendly time May 11-15 at 6pm CEST
Option 2: There's a Asia/Pacific friendly time June 8-12 at 9am CEST
Take a look at the event page and let me know if you have any questions.
Richard D. Bartlett Fri 24 Apr 2020 10:30AM
Nope. I'm gunna take a lot of convincing to shift off the tool that is working extremely well for me.
Danyl Strype Fri 24 Apr 2020 11:23PM
Nope. I'm gunna take a lot of convincing to shift off the tool that is working extremely well for me.
You know all the reasons why I think having social change discussions on
Zoom (or any corporate-owned platform) is like flying to the other side
of the world to give a speech about the urgency of climate change. So
I'm not going to labour the point ;) Instead, all I'll say is, I haven't
used Zoom, but I've come across lots of people in the last few weeks who
have used both Zoom and BBB, and say they prefer the latter. If you
haven't so much as joined a BBB room for a couple of minutes to see what
it offers, you don't know what you're missing.
Josh Fairhead Sat 25 Apr 2020 12:05PM
I'm not dogmatic about the tools but my preference is to generally use open tooling as I agree with Daniel in spirit (jit.si being my go to service). That said for commercial ventures like this Zoom seems to be the things that captures most attention, regardless of my distaste for it - it may be different in the microsolidarity circles however - I don't know.
Biases on the table, I did just check out BBB and it looked pretty good. I'd defiantly like to stress test it at some point! Perhaps like the revolving facilitator we can have revolving tools as well? Diversity being the spice of life and all :p
These comments are general rather than thread specific.
Specifically, I'll join for the practice sessions - the price is reasonable, I just need to procure some resources first!
Marek Koys Fri 24 Apr 2020 5:10AM
I'm wine with the ZOOM, but as some people above start proposing alternatives, I think it's worthy to mention https://remo.co/ as well. It is SW under the development of our friend from Hong Kong. It has a lot of great participatory functions some of which are better then zoom in my honest opinion.
john gieryn Tue 28 Apr 2020 12:18AM
Sounds so cool! Wish I were in the right timezone for it. Maybe next time ^.^
Patrick Hoogenbosch Tue 28 Apr 2020 8:30PM
Hi Nati and Richard. Interesting invitation worth considering. How large is the group of people participating in the 5 day learning program? What kind of people participate, what background? Experiences of others in comparable situations offer many added values.
Richard D. Bartlett Wed 29 Apr 2020 7:33AM
Hi Patrick, so far there are about 20 people, I expect we'll cap it at 30 or 40 so people have a chance to get to know each other. This is advertised publicly so I'm expecting participants will come from different backgrounds.
Richard D. Bartlett Fri 1 May 2020 10:01AM
Update: due to popular demand we've added a second option! So you can choose which week to join us, depending on your timezone:
Option 1: May 11 to 15th @ 6pm Rome (5pm London, 12pm NYC, 9am SF)
Option 2: June 8 to 12th @ 9am Rome (7pm Auckland, 3pm Taipei, 5pm Sydney)
Richard D. Bartlett Wed 6 May 2020 7:05AM
Update about times:
First week is now sold out. We postponed the second week to June 8-12 9am CEST.
Danyl Strype · Fri 24 Apr 2020 6:21AM
Have you tried BBB (with the Greenlight front-end)?