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sara girlscantell
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5 months ago
in Sync St Team Conversations: When Philosophy and Programing Collide. on Sync St Diaries
i'm interested in how you're defining lots of little neighborhoods within neighborhoods. i almost want to call them microhoods.
for example, i (proudly!) live in newbold, which is defined by our charter as washington ave to snyder, broad st to 18th. but within that larger neighborhood are so many little communities (physically - there are even more nongeographical communities). the block my house is on (my microhood) has very little overlap with my boyfriend's block (his microhood), even though our houses are probably less than a football field's length apart.
if each microhood grows strong through communication, and then has some overlapping or communication with its neighboring microhoods, that could be incredible. think of how much change and good could be initiated by whole networks of neighbors who are on the same page? amazing!
for example, i (proudly!) live in newbold, which is defined by our charter as washington ave to snyder, broad st to 18th. but within that larger neighborhood are so many little communities (physically - there are even more nongeographical communities). the block my house is on (my microhood) has very little overlap with my boyfriend's block (his microhood), even though our houses are probably less than a football field's length apart.
if each microhood grows strong through communication, and then has some overlapping or communication with its neighboring microhoods, that could be incredible. think of how much change and good could be initiated by whole networks of neighbors who are on the same page? amazing!
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davespeers
Sara, such great insight. We just had a developers meeting today where we discussed this. It's this whole question of how strictly do you define you 'neighbors'. In one place it could just be your street, in another you building, in another multiple steets . . . the combinations are endless. I think what were going to initially do is make flexible enough so that it works in all these situations, essentially making the groups more user defined. I have a feeling that the driving force behind using the platform will be the 'block' captain we talked about in a previous post. If that is the case then Sync St really wants to facilitate them as much as possible. I don't know if there is an right answer when it come to defining neighborhoods but if we do it right the user will ultimately show us.
