Hey folks, second shout for "The Future We Deserve", my book project. If anybody has the time to write a piece, they're 500 words, and the deadline is about a month (hard deadline is 1OCT). We're also looking for the last five hundred bucks on the Kickstarter<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461743612/the-future-we-deserve-100-days-100-visions-of-the>if anybody is feeling generous!
Thank you so much, Vinay ===== Hello, everybody! This is an update for the authors and supporters of The Future We Deserve <http://thefuturewedeserve.com/>. The book is going very well. - We’ve got 70% <http://kck.st/cBScWu> – $1400 – of the $2000 we need to do the book.* We need to raise $600 in two weeks <http://kck.st/cBScWu>*to liberate the $1400 already donated, so please encourage people to help us! - We have 71 authors signed up<http://www.appropedia.org/The_future_we_deserve#Collaborators>, some doing more than one piece. We could use a fair number of additional authors, but I’m sure people will keep showing up! - About 1/4 of the material is in, 26 pieces so far<http://www.appropedia.org/TheFWD_submissions>and the pieces are inspiring and powerful. *The “first deadline” is September 15th – a month from now – and October 1st is the hard deadline for the book.* So please get writing, and I’ll be sending out periodic reminders. If you can, please get your material in early so that we can really get the conversations about the book going as the process unfolds. 26 pieces so far is a great start, but it would be great to have half the book in place by the end of this month! The blogathon<http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-future-we-deserve-blogathon-1836>is going a little slowly: - Vinay Gupta <http://twitter.com/leashless> on Julia Macintosh’s<http://twitter.com/cricket7642> A Future Without Childhood<http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-future-we-deserve-blogathon-1836> - Antonio Dias <http://twitter.com/antoniodiasri> on James Hester<http://twitter.com/dharmabum23>‘s Of Arms and the Man<http://antoniodias.posterous.com/of-arms-and-the-man-the-future-we-deserve-blo> - Cat Lupton <http://astralcatabroadcast.blogspot.com/> on Antonio Dias<http://twitter.com/antoniodiasri>‘ On The Future We Deserve…<http://catlupton.posterous.com/the-future-we-deserve-on-the-future-we-deserv> So if you have time time, please pick a piece from the pieces submitted so far <http://www.appropedia.org/TheFWD_submissions>, run it on your blog, and add your thoughts on the piece. It’s a really good way to showcase the book and the ideas in it. I hope you will find the time! We’re well on track, well done, and thank you for all of your help! -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
