Culture of documentation. If we had a picture of every hexayurt that had ever been built - and we're not doing badly on that front! - and a bit of the story, the core concept which is that *anybody can do this* would be much, much easier to get across to the NGOs.
We've had a couple of contacts from groups who are thinking in terms of "hire a bunch of guys, build a bunch of hexayurts" and those conversations continue, but making the jump to "you teach the people, and they become self-sufficient for shelter in the next crisis" is taking more work to get people to see. Every one of you shows that the approach of "learn how to do it, do it, live in it' actually works. Different materials would be used in a disaster, and hopefully we'd have critical people pre-trained, but it's always been about moving shelter into the hands of the people. Hope that makes sense, and thank you, Vinay On 2/10/11, Mark Newell <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to be so unresponsive. I guess I wonder if more deployments at BM is > actually helpful, but I hear you saying it is/will be. I'll do it soon. > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> http://hexayurt.crowdmap.com only has two submissions from the hexayurt >> list! How are we going to convince people to actually deploy these things >> if >> we can't show that lots and lots of people are using the design (which >> means >> that there's a good chance that the locals in countries with sheltering >> problems can learn and adopt the design too.) >> >> Documentation is how we change the perception of what's possible, and get >> the big guys to the table to change the world. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Vinay >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Mark Newell > [email protected] > 206-261-1784 > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
