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What’s going on in league country
Posted by: Jon Olsen on: February 4, 2010
Hello! Some quick updates that people may be interested in knowing. As I’ve said numerous times, the “league” concept is not one person’s idea or domain. Nor do I know who the participant organizations will turn out to be. Nor will it necessarily shape into exactly the form that’s been discussed in posts on this [...]
LASFS clubhouse interview
Posted by: Jon Olsen on: August 19, 2009
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e requested information from The Los Angeles Science Fiction Society on how they got their clubhouse buildings.
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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.
An early vision
Posted by: Jon Olsen on: July 7, 2009
I propose that we create a new, neutral non-profit organization with the goal of serving as a coordinating space between any and all willing fan-run organizations in the region.
old new borrowed blue
Posted by: Jon Olsen on: June 28, 2009
I have observed something, some commonalities among fans and fan organizations. I want to describe an emergent set of principles from common behaviors. This isn’t news to most folks. But it might be a little new to put it in black and white this way for this region. But it’s also borrowed–taken from experiences and [...]
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