To follow up, I'd strongly prefer this space to have a good spread of topics and activities, rather than by related groups of people working on the same or similar things. That's not to say I don't want these people here, we can try it out. But I think it should be made clear that, they should keep the balance of the space in mind. Concretely what this means is e.g.: - If they need to talk about their project for more than a few sentences at a time, they should move to a separate room. - They shouldn't regularly invite their other work friends into the space, until (we're in a situation where) the space regularly also has other types of people/projects. - Likewise, we shouldn't invite similar people/projects in, until the space also has other types of people/projects. We don't have to formalise this, these are just some concrete examples to show the sorts of things I mean. In case the above feels too much like "making rules" or "making policy": I'm also happy to talk about why I'd like this sort of balance, in more detail. That would take a much longer email though. X Ximin Luo:
Hey these all seem cool,
I am slightly concerned about the Syrian Archives one only because they are 3 people, and that is already more than the regular number of people per day (Usually 0 or 1 or 2, rarely 3). Not sure how to deal with this concretely, I will keep thinking about it.
X
Moritz Bartl:
Hi!
We didn't yet define exactly how we would add people. I think it's a good idea, in cases where the "new folks" don't mind, to inform the list and then allow comments to be made off-list or on-list if people object for one reason or another.
At the Prototype Fund kickoff meeting, two projects showed interest in using the OnionSpace. One is the "Syrian Archive", something which I think would fit perfectly well thematically, and also because their language is English (3 people), who some of you have already met: https://syrianarchive.org/
The other "application" is coming from a nice and friendly German, who I asked to write a brief intro for us.
All those people want to use it as office space for mostly focussed work. We can try and keep the main room "quiet" for this, and ask people to go into the smaller rooms for longer conversations.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Vincent <mail@vincentahrend.com>
Hi Nerds,
My name is Vincent, I am 28 years old. I would be very glad to be able to work in your space in ExRotaprint on my current mietlimbo project for the coming six months.
Mietlimbo is an open-source project to improve the user experience of lowering your rent in Berlin according to the Mietpreisbremse law. It will consist mainly of an interactive web app with which people can more easily than now find out whether this law applies for them, how much they can save on their rent and how to *actually* go about it. I am working on this in the context of the Prototype Fund in which Accounting For All and the Syrian Archive projects are also enrolled.
I am looking for a space where I can work mostly on week days from ~noon - 6pm. When I'm working I prefer less talk and more focus on coding. Still, I would love to meet people, see what they are working on and maybe even get inspired and start hacking on something together.
For my personal background, I have studied Cognitive Science (everything about brains, how to fake them with a machine and why you shouldn't (couldn't) do it), where I was particularly interested in collective intelligence / consciousness and whether internet technology might be a first step towards that. In general, I like coding (mostly web dev and stuff I build for my raspberry pi), reading about internet culture, politics, random things, Jazz, Funk and Dubtechno, art, light and sound and talking to nice people :)
Hope to meet you all soon!
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