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My thinking as well...

by phyllotaxis 15y ago

local 15y ago
So any plans to work on it :D
- phyllotaxis 15y ago
  This. http://www.guotime.com/2011/07/how-to-have-successful-early-stage-startup-meetups-like-hackers-and-founders/ http://www.guotime.com/2011/07/how-to-have-successful-early-... Except for people even earlier in the chain. I'm talking no investors (in any official capacity) or anything formal/markety- Just guys and ladies that want to find people that want to flesh out their ideas through exposure to like-minded people. I can envision forums with a geography element that is specifically oriented towards orchestrating get-togethers. Or even better, how about using Elgg to make open networks to connect people by interest? http://www.elgg.org/about.php http://www.elgg.org/about.php That would be cool. My internet is down outside of work, so I'm limited to my phone currently, which I'm glad to have, but loathe to use for extended typing. Thoughts?
  - phyllotaxis 15y ago
    Whatever this is, you want it to create a "culture of intent" that clearly demonstrates to its users that the goal is community interaction, cooperation, and friendly optimism. We need someplace a little more personal and under-the-radar where we can enter the software development scene, such as it is, so that we can share our early education with smart people near to us, so we can combine the best elements of "hometown familiarity" with global, futuristic scope and stage. The division if labor has brought us here to this place on YC together- it's simply in our interest to find find each other near where we sit- at home. It makes sense to combine intellects and personalities to help guide the way to the many big-time plans and creations. I want a hometown launching pad for getting to San Francisco Bay, custom built to show me the local people reading this that want the same challenging but totally do-able map to creating world-wide success in the technology world. I'm looking at this world, and it's in need of an on-ramp to all the talent percolating in every small town on the map. Imagine the state of science today, the internet being one lense of which, where every truly interested person within 1000 miles of you were able to go to the same places to feed their computing human culture- face to face, instead of looking at everyone in the internet world as a collection of digital sentences, with the 3/5 conveyance of intent delivered, which is the average ability of a written sentence to say exactly what was intended. The other 2/5 is body language and eye contact. We should make real efforts to find each other and create from our current homes, until we have a stable of nailed-down implementations we can confidently present to the pro's.We have the neighbors nearby that want to work together, with smart, cool, fun, and dedicated people. We each try our best to be that way ourselves. I see so many of you here- I wish I could meet you and talk about these amazing, exciting advances in our technology and abilies to change the world in incredibly powerful ways. I think we should make a network that exists for this purpose. I want to work with you people. We all want the help from our friends, so we should put these friends of common interest together. Plus, there's beer, social commentary, new information, and connection to the bigger world. That would be cool. Would you agree?
    - local 15y ago
      yeah, sounds good to me. i looked at elgg as well, i believe one should create this social engine from scratch. It could be innovative and who knows, we might be able to make it better than elgg it self. your thoughts?
      - phyllotaxis 15y ago
        Perhaps ground-up would be effective in the long run, but my imagination wonders if an index of pre-populated mini-networks all rooted on one "jump page" might work better in the near-term. At least that's the functionality I imagine- the index could be similar to a traditional forum layout, where the categorized interests lead you to Elgg-like (again, only as an example) focus- and/or geographically-specific group of people. They would of course be fully capable of interconnecting between other networks throughout the site, but the goal here is sharing among people in your local group of like-minded people. It's fun to think of the possibilities here- there are many. Back to you- PS- just saw this and thought it might apply http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/7699968171/why-making-a-cool-project-is-a-good-idea-for-an http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/7699968171/why-making-a-cool-...

My thinking as well...

local 15y ago

So any plans to work on it :D

phyllotaxis 15y ago
This. http://www.guotime.com/2011/07/how-to-have-successful-early-stage-startup-meetups-like-hackers-and-founders/ http://www.guotime.com/2011/07/how-to-have-successful-early-... Except for people even earlier in the chain. I'm talking no investors (in any official capacity) or anything formal/markety- Just guys and ladies that want to find people that want to flesh out their ideas through exposure to like-minded people. I can envision forums with a geography element that is specifically oriented towards orchestrating get-togethers. Or even better, how about using Elgg to make open networks to connect people by interest? http://www.elgg.org/about.php http://www.elgg.org/about.php That would be cool. My internet is down outside of work, so I'm limited to my phone currently, which I'm glad to have, but loathe to use for extended typing. Thoughts?
- phyllotaxis 15y ago
  Whatever this is, you want it to create a "culture of intent" that clearly demonstrates to its users that the goal is community interaction, cooperation, and friendly optimism. We need someplace a little more personal and under-the-radar where we can enter the software development scene, such as it is, so that we can share our early education with smart people near to us, so we can combine the best elements of "hometown familiarity" with global, futuristic scope and stage. The division if labor has brought us here to this place on YC together- it's simply in our interest to find find each other near where we sit- at home. It makes sense to combine intellects and personalities to help guide the way to the many big-time plans and creations. I want a hometown launching pad for getting to San Francisco Bay, custom built to show me the local people reading this that want the same challenging but totally do-able map to creating world-wide success in the technology world. I'm looking at this world, and it's in need of an on-ramp to all the talent percolating in every small town on the map. Imagine the state of science today, the internet being one lense of which, where every truly interested person within 1000 miles of you were able to go to the same places to feed their computing human culture- face to face, instead of looking at everyone in the internet world as a collection of digital sentences, with the 3/5 conveyance of intent delivered, which is the average ability of a written sentence to say exactly what was intended. The other 2/5 is body language and eye contact. We should make real efforts to find each other and create from our current homes, until we have a stable of nailed-down implementations we can confidently present to the pro's.We have the neighbors nearby that want to work together, with smart, cool, fun, and dedicated people. We each try our best to be that way ourselves. I see so many of you here- I wish I could meet you and talk about these amazing, exciting advances in our technology and abilies to change the world in incredibly powerful ways. I think we should make a network that exists for this purpose. I want to work with you people. We all want the help from our friends, so we should put these friends of common interest together. Plus, there's beer, social commentary, new information, and connection to the bigger world. That would be cool. Would you agree?
  - local 15y ago
    yeah, sounds good to me. i looked at elgg as well, i believe one should create this social engine from scratch. It could be innovative and who knows, we might be able to make it better than elgg it self. your thoughts?
    - phyllotaxis 15y ago
      Perhaps ground-up would be effective in the long run, but my imagination wonders if an index of pre-populated mini-networks all rooted on one "jump page" might work better in the near-term. At least that's the functionality I imagine- the index could be similar to a traditional forum layout, where the categorized interests lead you to Elgg-like (again, only as an example) focus- and/or geographically-specific group of people. They would of course be fully capable of interconnecting between other networks throughout the site, but the goal here is sharing among people in your local group of like-minded people. It's fun to think of the possibilities here- there are many. Back to you- PS- just saw this and thought it might apply http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/7699968171/why-making-a-cool-project-is-a-good-idea-for-an http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/7699968171/why-making-a-cool-...