I'll interpret the fact of your comment as evidence that
writing down the ideas we're talking about, and publishing
them on the Internet, will add energy and make a good
activity for our conversations.
There is no information on the net about this, beyond:
http://www.communitywiki.org/en/LionKimbroNamedIdeas#VisualC
Rehana proposed that we could find a small (but not tiny)
codebase, print it out, and visually arrange it on the
wall, to test the concept. We wouldn't get the scaling
effects, but we could print it out three times -- once in
normal size, once in a smaller size, and then once in a
tiny size. Or, we could accordion/fold the code on the
wall, to the size we want.
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> * SOFTWARE -- I described OverHear, and Visual Programming
>> by flatting programs onto a plane. Brian Rice described
>> Slate.
>
> Hey Lion, I'm very interested in languages (computer languages). Do
> you have a moment to describe that Visual Programming idea over email,
> or could you send me a link to more info?
>
> Thanks!
> Rogan
>
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Lion Kimbro <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Saturday House has been very active these last three weeks.
>>
>> I'm working on a format for reports; email me with ideas.
>> I'd like to make these *shorter.*
>>
>> I invite discussion about anything you see here, or the report itself.
>>
>> This coming Saturday will be at Daniel Joyce's house again;
>> I'll issue Roll Call tomorrow morning.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> SATURDAY HOUSE REPORT
>> (Saturday, May 23rd, 2009)
>>
>>
>> New People!
>>
>> - James: black hair, new to the area, likes the
>> outdoors, network tech, if I'm recalling
>> right; knows movie directories and actors by
>> name
>>
>> - Jay: interested in urban sustainability and
>> sustainable activist organizing; I met Jay on
>> Reality Sandwich
>>
>> ----
>>
>> ACCOMPLISHMENTS
>> /LEARNINGS
>>
>> * Work continued on Reactable. Daniel says, "We still
>> need more power!"
>>
>> * Brian Rice researched IR illumination concept for Wall
>> of Life. "It'll work." Questions on how to get a
>> discrete 1 or a 0 out of a reflection.
>>
>> * Rehanna learned about the structure of her camera, from
>> taking it apart and reconstructing it.
>>
>> * A round of applause for PHIL and JAMES, who worked out
>> the plans for the hiking trip!
>>
>> * Jay and I worked on plans for a bus trip to 3 local area
>> ecovillages, cohousing places, and communities. All of
>> Saturday House will be invited. Sustainability,
>> resiliant community, integral city.
>>
>>
>> CONVERSATIONS
>>
>> * SOFTWARE -- I described OverHear, and Visual Programming
>> by flatting programs onto a plane. Brian Rice described
>> Slate.
>>
>> * HIKING, NATURE -- James and Phil in particular, as they
>> worked out hiking trip plans.
>>
>> * There were many more; This is just what I was caught up
>> in.
>>
>>
>> WHAT WE LEARNED
>>
>> * ACTION -- We realized a recurring pattern:
>>
>> SHARE-IDEA --inspires--> SHARE-IDEA --inspires--> ...
>> (and so on,
>> and so forth)
>>
>> -->
>> after a time, the idea-sharing dies down,
>> energy and momentum dies down;
>> What then?
>>
>> How can we turn this energy into action?
>>
>> 3 possibilities:
>>
>> 1. these things inevitably end in loss of energy,
>> "death by laptop" -- ergo, "AVOID THIS PATTERN"
>>
>> 2. it's good while it's running, but the ending is
>> bad: -- ergo, "CUT IT SHORT" -- adopt Open Space
>> Technology's: "When it's over, it's over." When
>> we realize sharing energy is dropping, STOP, BREAK
>> AWAY, figure out something else to do.
>>
>> 3. TURN SHARING ITSELF INTO AN ACTIVITY: create
>> templates for sharing, and collaborate on "how do
>> we explain this idea to the world?" If the idea
>> is already one with a solid web presence, "How do
>> we share this idea with Saturday House?" Perhaps
>> include in a template: diagram/drawing, contral
>> concepts, key explanations, action possibilities
>>
>> Rehanna pointed out afterwards by email that some of our
>> ideas, we can REALIZE IN THE MINIATURE. She suggested a
>> paper model for the visual arrangement. This is great.
>>
>> * Meta works: Keep a running conversation on "What is
>> working? What's not working?" Keep it safe for
>> questioning, noticing, and experimentation with
>> different ways. Damanhur's 3rd body of government was:
>> Social Theory. Keep everything actively under analysis
>> and safe for questioning.
>>
>> * FOUR DAYS. We realized we were skeptical that most
>> ideas would last longer than 4 days (4 Saturdays;)
>> Contiguous runs are hard to keep. Either James or
>> Rehanna asked, "Well, maybe we should *target* four
>> days, then?" The idea is to test the boundary.
>>
>> * FEELING LIKE WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS. We want to find
>> projects with a good success:effort ratio.
>>
>> * SAFE TO FAIL -- FAILURE IS OKAY. Daniel Joyce points
>> out that it's important that it be safe to fail. In
>> fact, -- he points out -- in many of the initial
>> exercises at Bucketworks, it's **impossible** to fail.
>> (Consider: art projects.)
>>
>>
>> MOVIES
>>
>> * James went with Sakura, Amber, and I, to see Terminator:
>> Salvation.
>>
>> * There's a movie coming out in September, called
>> "Surrogates," about a transhumanist future in which most
>> people you see walking around outside are actually
>> [beautiful/handsome/superpowered] robotic surrogates for
>> the people themselves, whom are fully-immersed and
>> safely connected from their homes. Or so they think...
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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