Hello, Saturday House!
3 Announcements:
1. We're looking for a place on Saturday!
[Possibility: Daniel's house.]
2. Saturday House Description:
Community, Action, Business, and School
3. Planning for a "Seattle Bucketworks"
(rough plans)
== Location ==
Do you have a location we can use on Saturday? Saturday House needs
you! (And your living room!)
Presently, we're looking at using Daniel's apartment this Saturday,
but we're not sure if that'll go through.
Help!
== Saturday House Description ==
I'm looking for help and reflection on a Saturday House description
for our website. While I have moments of being inspiring, now, at
9:10 PM, is not one of them. {:)}=
All help on the description will be greatfully appreciated.
Here are the 4 key elements I'm working with:
* Community -- Saturday House is a very large community of people.
The boundaries is not "Who comes on Saturday," or even "Who's on
the list?" It is large.
* Action -- We are working to become action oriented. We have
recognized that the "slow and steady death" scenario of Saturday
House is when everyone has laptops out. When we are active, our
voices become joyful, youth returns, friendliness increases, and
form strangers draw in closer -- so we have observed. Our idea
is, "If we become more active, will these good things increase?
How can we stir more action?" Presently, we persue two routes:
Activity days (on the 1st Saturday of the month,) and Projects
(activities focused on each Saturday.)
I invite YOU to lead an Activity day or a Project. My offer is
to help to ensure that it happens -- to help collect resources
for you, to announce it (if you like,) to connect you with
people, to help in coordination however I can. The same goes
for projects as well.
"Action" is to be interpreted broadly: Even research questions
and meditations can make "action." But it requires some locus
of focus.
* Business -- Saturday House has a long tradition with business
society in Seattle. Business is a focus of Saturday House,
though I myself have not been much involved in it. The Six Hour
Startup community grew from the space made available by Saturday
House, and has grown much larger, beyond the Saturday House.
Nevertheless, this theme is very much a theme served by the
Saturday House.
* School -- Saturday House began with the inspiration from the
Sudbury School method. The idea is that we are all learning,
both by ourselves, from self-study, and from and with others.
Some prefer the metaphor of the "Academy," others a "College."
Regardless, the theme is of study, learning, and growth, in
service of the larger society of the world.
I'm presently working to develop this into an articulated page for
"About Saturday House." On that page, too, there well be key words,
with everything from "Open Source" and "Electronics," to
"Mathematics," to "Sustainability," to "Drawing," to "Learning" and
"Reflection," and on and on.
== Planning ==
Finally, our intention is to make a space, inspired by Bucketworks,
(perhaps even *called* "Seattle Bucketworks," James willing,) and
involving many, many, many communities in the larger Seattle area.
My plan is to visit, with others (including Daniel,) every community
we can think of in the Seattle area, and invite them to discussion
about locating a space. (We presently have a list of about 20
groups, and I invite all of you to send me still further people to
add to the list -- or add it to the EtherPad or Wiki.) I'm
presently talking with several groups, and will greatly expand that
number: I hope to talk with at least one new group a week, myself,
and I hope that effort will be matched (at least in part) by others.
We will arrange a dinner gathering, to discuss a shared space, and
then later, the financing of such a space. We will need a space
large enough for all of our dreams, and enough money to pay someone
to staff it full time.
It will be *AWESOME.* We'll talk about this space on the list in the
relatively near future (say, within a month or two,) but please hold
off for now. That said, I invite you to talk about it with us on
any Saturday at Saturday House.
The plan is roughly:
1. Begin, immediately, talking with as many groups as possible
about our plans, and asking if they could see themselves
participating in it.
2. Near the end of July, or in August, convene for a large group
dinner or gathering of potential stakeholders, leaders from
different communities, to get to know one another, to share
enthusiasm about the space, and to share dreams. Hopefully we
will have worked out the technology of sharing dreams by this
point.
3. In September or October, collect funds for initial payments, and
find the space. My thought is that the process of actually
acquiring the space should proceed fairly quickly. That's how it
was with the SODO space at least, and that's my understanding of
how houses are bought as well: It's a quick process.
I do not know yet who will staff the space, and how that will work.
Obviously, there is much I need to learn to make this real.
However, there are many among you who are skilled, who have done
things like this before, and I have the support of other communities
(such as Bucketworks) who have done what we aim to do. These plans
are not final, and I am happy to hear any input, though preferably
in person.
It's going to be an adventure!
Sincerely,
Lion Kimbro
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