[FM Discuss] Netiquette Re: SPRINT ON COLLABORATION - LIMA PERU

[adam hyde]

yes, my apologies. I sent an apology yesterday about this. But apologies
again...

adam

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 01:12 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> Could I suggest that the pictures be put on a website and you use a URL to point
> to them?  Rather than sending them directly?
> 
> some of us are on dialup, and dialup which takes glitching to an artform
> besides, and having more than a few kilobytes to download not only takes up
> valuable time, it also increases the chance that the dialup will glitch itself
> into oblivion and we will have to restart downloading the email all over again,
> in which we will most probably face yet another glitch and yet another restart
> of the email download .... ad nauseam ...
> 
> thanks
> 
> Wesley Parish
> from New Zealand, a first world country with a third world Telecommunications
> system ... 
> 
> Quoting sandra salcedo <sandra at tanq.com.pe>:
> 
> 
> 
> > Adam, finally we had our first "book sprint" on "collaboration". As we
> > know
> > this is just an "inspirational" coincidence that we both, from Peru and
> > Germany, were thinking on writing about the same topic. As you know our
> > reality is different so we would like to share with you our experience
> > specially given that we did it almost at the same time but we took
> > different
> > roads.
> > 
> > To start, i would say that we never thought on writing this as a book
> > with
> > chapters or transversal topics. Instead, given our "innocence" in this
> > thing
> > of writing together we decided to use this as a documentation platform
> > where
> > to write our own experiences about collaboration in our particular
> > contexts.
> > In this sense, we call people working on very diverse areas: artists
> > working
> > with people after the earthquake, people working in radical poor zones
> > on
> > collaborative education, migration, free software, neighborhood,
> > collaboration and development and so on.
> > 
> > I cannot but share with you that my feelings along the sprint were
> > similar
> > than yours, how are we going to do this!!! but people were so confident
> > on
> > doing it and the way we were facilitating the sessions that i just
> > perseverated. I mean, they did not even understood well when i wrote
> > the
> > email and asked them to come for the SPRINT , (sprint??? what is
> > sprint?
> > they confess know they thought considering also that we speak in spanish
> > it
> > needed a long explanation..!!)
> > 
> > Well, so many things, that the title was COLLABORATION AND WORK seemed
> > to
> > have had something to do with the fact that everybody accepted to join
> > our
> > effort. We were from Friday 22 to Monday 25 but we did not spend the
> > night
> > at the same place together, everybody went home. Eventhough the risk, we
> > all
> > arrived at 9am to start writing every morning. Something unusual being
> > sharp
> > on time here in peru!!!
> > 
> > Many topics were transversal in all texts but i want to highlight one:
> > CONFIDENCE FOR COLLABORATION.
> > It was clear for everyone that the lack of confidence, something not
> > only
> > common but considered necessary in a post armed conflict country and
> > high
> > corruption level. However, the amazing thing was that it was clear that
> > because of confidence all the projects they lead are running and of
> > course
> > because of confidence there were in this place to share for 4 days were
> > they
> > really did not know anybody, not even me.
> > 
> > Kiko (mayorga) was facilitating all the technical issues and explaining
> > the
> > best ways for networking. Me, I was just focus on keeping things
> > flowing,
> > within and outside the texts. We also had two friends (psycologists
> > just
> > becuase a coincidence!!!) helping everyone with their own reflections
> > regarding their experiences and leading them from their experiences to
> > some
> > common issues that we agreed should be along all the texts: project
> > explanation, collaboration dimension in their projects, actors, best
> > collaborative practices etc)
> > 
> > Finally, I just want to share with you our happiness, the result will
> > be
> > printed soon and probably online (if not written in video format while
> > being
> > read by their own authors). It was amazing that finishing the sprint we
> > found your email sharing your own collaborative futures experience.
> > Congratulations, great effort!!
> > 
> > Some pictures for you too.
> > abrazos
> > sandra
> >  
> 
> 
> 
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> - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
> 
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