Archive for July 2009
Fafnir
Posted by: Michael Lee on: July 30, 2009
- In: Community | Conventions
- 9 Comments
One of the current challenges that CONvergence is facing is an old, familiar one: How big do we want to get? Compared to something like San Diego Comic Con — which could fit the size of CONvergence’s membership into one room — we’re all still small stuff. 4,000 people? That is nothing when you’re looking [...]
League Panel at Diversicon
Posted by: Michael Lee on: July 29, 2009
We will be having a brainstorming session at Diversicon this weekend. Join us at this discussion if you are registered for the convention (and feel free to register at the convention!) Saturday, August 1 2:00-2:55 PM Krushenko’s Annex (Northern Pacific) Brainstorming Discussion: Geek Community Center What would you like in a hypothetical Geek Community Center? [...]
Cake or death?
Posted by: Jon Olsen on: July 22, 2009
How might we get to a “Geek United Way?”
A Mission
Posted by: Jon Olsen on: July 17, 2009
My mission, and one I would personally bring to this is: to connect organizations for challenging collaborations that support charitable activities and improve relationships in diverse communities of imagination throughout the upper Midwest. Do you see how that merges with/emerges from the principles that I suggested earlier? We choose to connect over the fact of [...]
There is Nothing New
Posted by: Michael Lee on: July 16, 2009
- In: Community | Groups
- 11 Comments
I’ve been doing a little bit of research over the past couple of years, and I see some examples of other organizations that are “like” what we are doing here. Some are in other fan communities, others in art communities, others may be in religious communities, and others are in the non-profit space generally. This [...]
“If I die, tell my wife I said hello”
Posted by: Jon Olsen on: July 15, 2009
That’s just one of my favorite lines from Futurama—it’s the leader of the Neutrals calmly reacting to the beige alert. Anyway, I want to further examine the ideas put forward in the early vision post. My point in this is to establish some talking points about the organizational part. I’d like to talk about those [...]
Process & Vision
Posted by: uberhill on: July 14, 2009
Let the process we use be informed by the shared vision we are building.
Why Now?
Posted by: Michael Lee on: July 13, 2009
- In: Community
- 15 Comments
I’ve had a feeling for a while that we’re entering “the next era” in Twin Cities fandom for a while, and this is a part of taking an active role in shaping that next era.
The problem with SMOF is the S
Posted by: Jon Olsen on: July 12, 2009
There are trust issues in these communities. We would like to offer each other’s communities a framework of being able to trust their leadership in their own spheres, while also working together on their behalf. And to leave those relationships protected against outside interference.
Calling all LARPers
Posted by: Lex Larson on: July 11, 2009
So I’m reading this excellent site about Russian Fallout3 LARPers, (English translation) and I’m curious (since I don’t LARP) what kind of spaces LARPers look for when staging their games. Where do you hold your games now? What would make for an awesome game-space? Help me out here, please. I’ve only got tabletop and LAN [...]
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