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Inspired graphing breakout!
www.aplacefordreams.com continues to build toward our pilot project with the Transitions project in the Phoenix, AZ area.
Help us find programmers and curriculum development support as we grow a groundbreaking new set of tools for anyone in transition.
Right now we need support in:
* Finding new and donated computers, software, peripherals
* Programmers willing to work with Google and OpenSocial tools
* CSS and web development specialist volunteer
* Students and faculty at ASU to build interest in this program
* Grantwriting and editing our upcoming applications
* Curriculum development for enterprise, virtual worlds, communications
* Pilot program ideas including innovative uses of XO/OLPC, green wifi at community level, donations of cell phones and digital media tools for those building new businesses out of transition
WHY?
- Anyone can find emergency food, shelter and medical services in their local area with one click.
- Creative and talented entrepreneurs can find support to train and start new businesses.
- Service learning opportunities between college students, social media leaders and those transitioning
- Removing the stigma of homelessness by providing remote work opportunities available from any location
Most of my day is spent envisioning ideal environments.
Here's my life desires:
* Collaborative safe spaces for creativity, innovation and invention
* Surrounded by sweet people in vibrant communities supporting each other through interlaced networks
* A vibrant mix of flora and fauna respected and integrated with human life
* Low cost local energy production from existing materials and resources
* Easy to find resources without searching multiple websites and real world locations
* Immediate supply and material retrieval for projects
* Low cost exchanges and shipping of objects with little friction or time wasted
* Secure access to basic survival needs: water, air, food, shelter
* The right to cultivate and consume any food or medicine known to man that's still available and not extinct
* To be surrounded by beauty, filled with art, living in love
What do you want most? What do you need?
We are up against some epic challenges in these coming decades. We have each other and only this awareness that will chart our future. Where do you see us going?
Inspired by a look ahead ten years on Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120119369144313747.html
Start doing this NOW if we want to survive and thrive these next 50 years:
- Stimulate green industries and build local alt-energy solutions into daily life
- Challenge the US FDA, the WTO and World Health on issues regarding the Codex Alimentarius
- Local water purification systems available to all people (and animals, plants, ecosystem)
- Stop deadly practices like Mountaintop Removal and chemical dumping in our waterways in favor of clean mining
- Gut parts of the USPS and our local post offices (I'm a Postmasters' granddaughter -- this is heavy to say)
- Rethink our entire transportation system and reduce automobile use
- Work from home in virtual spaces, attend business gatherings without unnecessary travel
- Create a foundational framework for international transparency and governance that is decentralized and democratic for the vox populi
- Restore Habeas Corpus
- Provide universal internet access, public computers and basic training to all students at a young age
- Learn to see ourselves as infinitely abundant, free and capable of reshaping our experience
- Love without fail: no abandon, no boundaries.
Tell me your path, your desires, your challenges.
As many of you know parts of my job include creating new media shorts and immersion experiences for large and small audiences. Some of my work is very much designed for a niche audience, in this case those interested in philanthropy, law and the unique community-building challenges that entangle our digital lives. This emerging field of study has been led by USC, MacArthur and others as we try to chart a productive course through the etheric digital universe.
While some wrestle with the relevance of these spaces I am always encouraged to see 100+ leaders gather together for honest dialogue without the cost of travel or carbon in the air. We can do far better and we will continue to learn how to maximize these experiences for the masses. I for one need to learn how to buy new hard drives faster to keep up with the machinima documentary flubug that keeps infecting my mouse trigger key....lost the bulk of the footage today to a full disk!
The AMO are at it again, sharing good will and tools for change around the world. This time you can get involved very easily and get a laptop for a child at the same time!
Starting on November 12th at www.xogiving.org you can sign onto the One Laptop Per Child giving challenge and receive a laptop for yourself or a child you love while also giving a laptop to a child in another part of the world. Right now you can also choose to donate $200 to send a laptop to a child.
I'm glad to see xogiving.org featuring the Cambodian youth on their main page, as Beth Kanter and friends have been doing a ton to bring digital media tools to that country.
On the TED blog, Engadget and others they're reporting that production looks to be solid now that Intel has signed on to support the project. Their Give1Get1 campaign will be short lived (a few weeks) and machines will hopefully ship by Christmas. $400 will buy two laptops: one for you and one for a child in another part of the world.
After using one this summer I'm eager to get a few available for our AMO team so that we can begin to develop digital media curricula and projects with the XO. I was lucky to visit their office in Boston on a day when Negroponte and Intel were meeting this summer, a good sign of collaborations to come as hundreds of little green froglike machines dangled from the ceiling while they undertook advanced mesh network tests. When playing with it, the keys on the XO feel child-sized but the applications are fairly robust, especially so with the mesh they've developed that allows a classroom of kids to effectively share information far more easily than most classrooms currently can in America.
So here's the AMO Challenge for you: we're looking for 10 people who will commit to GiveXO this holiday season. It's easy to do, a few clicks and you've bought a very cool little green machine for someone you love and have given a big gift to a child around the world. Amazingly simple.
This is leapfrogging technology at its finest and we want to see more projects like the XO grow in popularity around the world. Thanks to ALL OF YOU for helping to make sure that these tools end up in the hands of kids who are eager to join the digital media revolution. Think how much better our music will be when the kids in Africa, Asia and South America have access to music production tools!
If you look closely at the Second Life island you will see a new little island popping up near it: FOOD ISLAND opens this weekend in Second Life and you can visit starting tomorrow! Tons of free food, health and nutrition information, recipes and cooking demonstrations galore are featured on FOOD.
To everyone who has helped to support the work of Amoration, AMO Island, ManorMeta and the studio team here.....THANK YOU! We appreciate every step you help us make together.
We held two amazing machinima classes this week, first at UCLA for the Digital Storytelling class and on Friday for educators in SL looking to test out their first timer machinima capture skills. You'll see more of our machinima and interactive design work soon on the Today Show, MSNBC, USAToday and more major outlets to be announced soon (I heard even Oprah wants a piece of our action!).
TechSoup/Net2 let us know that we had 190 votes for their innovation award cycle; we were very close to the top 20 in competition with major nonprofits that have hundreds of thousands on their roster. This is an amazing feat considering that we are now gathering our first 1000 supporters; most organizations can't muster more than 1-3% participation and our team was able to bring the love in force! Thanks to all of you who took the time to show support for ManorMeta and the AMO studio projects.
Today inworld you can participate in the Digital Be-In or many other great earth day events inworld. Get out and enjoy it!
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