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This week we host an extended 3-hour collab-a-thon. This is a work party, a barn-raising, a many-hands-make-light-work community effort. Our primary work project today will be “ecosystem mapping”.
We’ll revisit and update our Second Renaissance Changemaking Ecosystem map from 2024, fanning out in groups to notice what has changed and what could be improved or updated.
Do you have technical skills? We’re aiming to do some backend work as well. (Edit: we won’t be pursuing this until later - let us know if you’d like to pitch in with coding or data refactoring!)
You can attend for some or all of the session, pitching in with the time you have available. We’ll regroup and orient at the top of each hour to create easy entry/exit points.
Poll to decide what we will do
UPDATE: We’re going mapping!
Updated poll below has the topic voting
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6/10 is a bad day for me, but I’d be happy to collaborate on any of the content pieces on other days.
I notice the second option doesn’t have a link with details, perhaps we could link it to this: Second Renaissance Ecosystem Resources
I think we may want to think a bit about the potential options. For a good barn-raising we want something that:
- Is easy to engage with (on own or in a small team)
- Is parallelizable
- Potentially shows real progress in 3-4h
- And is part of something larger and ongoing
To get this combination is not easy. Some kinds of ecosystem mapping fit this, as does adding to lexicon (if properly set up …), creating reading lists etc.
Also we will want to do some prep work on any item we choose to get it will set up … (kind of obvious but worth flagging).
Comment on the options (and adding others e.g. Lexicon)
I think the four types of knowledge resources identified in What Do People Want to Know (from us)? Mapping User Needs for Second Renaissance Knowledge Commons form one part of a backlog we can bring in here.
- Ecosystem mapping covers top right item
- Lexicon (wherever we put it) is top left - and this is also a good topic for a barn raising
- Intro resources is what i think Second Renaissance Ecosystem Resources is covering
- In depth articles is not yet covered but could evolve from lexicon IMO
Re mapping
I think we can spell out in a bit more detail some of the opportunities re mapping, see e.g.
PPS
I think starting a proper backlog of potential projects somewhere with an index would be helpful where we consolidate in one place some of these ideas and others from across this forum. This would be then form the long-list for making a short-list like the poll above.
Thanks for the diagram. That all strikes me as both clear and desirable.
Another idea would be Wiser Metrics project (aka Metacrisis & Second Renaissance Metrics)
Quite a strong one for a hackathon as multiple ways to contribute.
What are you most interested in working on, inside a 3-hour collab-a-thon to be held on June 10th? This voting feedback will help us choose a “main theme” project for the day:
Today the curators team selected, in harmony with the voting (messy though it is), selected ecosystem mapping as the primary project for the June 10th collab-a-thon!
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At first blush 6/10 looked bad for me, but the time zone is favorable, so I just now registered for the Collab-a-thon. I’d be happy to support any sort of content generation or content management in any mode. Just need a sense of community priorities …
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I think we’re likely to continue forward with the map refresh effort as planned! I don’t know what I don’t know about the prep you were envisioning, but I think we can do a great collective update pass even if we ignore the backend data consolidation work.
I imagine we’ll connect over WhatsApp tomorrow to sort this out.
Looking forward to doing some quality work together tomorrow!
Here’s a preview of one way we might parallelize the effort:
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If anyone wants to go over any of map content more, I’d be happy to explore any of the little details in asynchronous mode here. It turns out I have personal experience with about 75% of the content on Renaissance Island and quite a few touch points on other islands as well. That includes movements, organizations, and personal creators.
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In the context of the Ikigai-based lesson I taught last night (described in this thread: Facing the Future - #9 by RobertBunge), it occurred to me Ikigai affords an alternative way to organize all the map content. Short version:
- what you love (inner work)
- skills (group process work)
- world needs (all the metatheories)
- get paid [or otherwise pleased with results and outcomes] (theories of change, effective practices)
One thing the came out of the collabathon was that the current map locates metatheories centrally, with a certain pride of place. The current map thus appears to privilege theoretical abstraction over practices. In the Ikigai approach, something more general - like “2R vision” - could occupy the conceptual center, with metatheory being one of the supporting approaches, but not necessarily the star of the show.
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This recent video by Brendan Graham Dempsey illustrates a point I was trying to make at the Collabathon about “Integral Island” (the big one in the center).
The video is presented by Institute of Applied Metatheory, which is a formal organization spun off from Ken Wilber’s integral movement. Robb Scott of IAM is basically CEO of Wilber’s organization nowadays. Gregg Henriques, UTOK creator, also has a major appearance. The active collaboration between Brendan, IAM, and UTOK is quite apparent. They all speak each other’s language. They all cite each other’s work.
On the surface, it looks like Integral, UTOK, metamodern, etc. are a grab bag of competing systems. all with distinctive terminology and sensibilities. On more of a socio-graphic level (and I would argue at a metatheoretical structural level) Integral Island is a tiny little in-bred neighborhood in which everybody knows everybody else and they hang out together quite a bit.
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