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Re: How to run a Hack Day

rosshill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:51:52 -0000

It is awesome to see so many self-organising / open events popping up in Melbourne. The collaboration and cross-pollination that emerges is wonderful.

Re: How to run a Hack Day

rosshill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:50:59 -0000

It is the non-programmers who make it interesting! One of the secrets for these things is having a user interface or user experience person on your team to make sure the app will actually be easy to use, and also a designer to make it pretty (that really helps for prizes and press coverage!)

Re: Bifi = bicycle + free wifi

rosshill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:18:30 -0000

Where should we take it? I'm thinking Postal Hall, Min Lokal, Cafe Racer...

Corner Shop in Yarraville for @sammartino?

Re: The AVC Reader Census

rosshill — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:28:01 -0000

You've inspired me to game my readers too :) http://www.rosshill.com.au/article/hunch-accuracy/

Re: The AVC Reader Census

rosshill — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:25:42 -0000

What's scary is how many answers you answer before you get sick of it... I made it to the 25 mark!!

Re: What if you lost your social network?

rosshill — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:24:52 -0000

How often do you back up your Google Contacts?

Re: Micropatronage & an iphone, why?

rosshill — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:21:19 -0000

Much of this requires a long term view to see the rewards. It is simplistic to compare Jo wanting an iPhone to perhaps a poor child wanting food - but the reality is that being connected to the web enables a lot of things and exchange of currency and voice is one of them. There are so many arguments that could be made here but I think the natural laws of supply and demand are at play - that means it might be harder for Jo to raise money for an iPhone vs if she were raising money for the 40 hour famine, but it doesn't invalidate it. If people provide a way for others to support them financially, the market will decide what is worthy.

Re: Micropatronage

rosshill — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:24 -0000

I made the following comment at @zaana's blog (http://zaana.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/micropatr...

I would suggest that micropatronage isn’t about what you do with the money, it is about people wanting to support you in whatever you choose to do. They are assuming that you will spend it wisely or accept the fact that you may not (depending on your definition of wise!)

I see it as an ongoing concept that is not limited to a deadline. This solves your dilemma because it unties it from single events or objects.

There are quite a few people I would pay a micro amount (say $20) _every_ month to ‘do their thing’. As a patron I would expect in return feedback on what they are doing (which might look like blog posts, videos, tweets or emails).

Micropatronage = supporting people to do what they do however they like to do it with small ongoing amounts of funding and no expectation of financial return.

Re: Mechanical World 1.0 vs. Quantum World 2.0

rosshill — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:06:50 -0000

What are the steps in the transition between them though?

Re: Pre-briefing for GovhackMelb

rosshill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:28:08 -0000

Thanks to everyone who came last night - it was really interesting to see what ideas popped up from the collective.

Please add the most interesting ideas you heard (yours or others) to the shared google doc that is at http://docs.google.com/a/rosshill.com.au/Doc?do... - when it fills up we'll send out a notification. It will also be promoted at the two hack days so developers will be looking for inspiration there!

You can follow the activity on Twitter using the #govhack search at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23govhack

The Canberra event kicks off this afternoon, and the Melbourne Hack Day is on the 7th and 8th of November. The details are at http://lplabs.eventbrite.com/ I look forward to seeing you there!

Re: Pre-briefing for GovhackMelb

rosshill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:55:21 -0000

Yeah I'm hoping to write a post about it - if not the #govhack channel should be going strong!

Re: Micropatronage

rosshill — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:31:48 -0000

That's amazing! Do you have any copies of the plog still? I'd love to take a look. It reminds of Newspaper Club which is just starting up and offering on-demand newspaper printing http://blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/

Re: Pre-briefing for GovhackMelb

rosshill — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:50:52 -0000

I'll be at the pre-briefing, govhack canberra, and govhack melbourne - busy few weeks!

Re: Toyota Country Border Security - Nothing Soft Gets In

rosshill — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:18:46 -0000

That's an amazing campaign. Love it.

Re: Micropatronage

rosshill — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:24:28 -0000

That's something that really excites me - how the concept can connect
funding models with the community of people who like the idea. The basis of
the idea is financial support but as the person or group builds a network of
supporters I am sure it expand to be a network that can help the mission in
any way required.

Re: Micropatronage

rosshill — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:51:35 -0000

Oh that's awesome! What projects were you working on at the time? What sort of communication did the patrons want to receive?

Re: Space Creators

rosshill — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:10:22 -0000

I agree that this is a growing role - events are changing from something you need to plan every moment of, to something where you need to create a space that fuels emergent behaviour. You're enabling people to make the event their own within a simple set of guidelines.

Re: Micropatronage

rosshill — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:09:34 -0000

Once there are a few people doing this on an ongoing basis it would be cool
to have a central listing somewhere. It's easy to get started with a simple
paypal subscription button in the sidebar of a blog - then work up from
there. Here's a good example from @iankath's podcast http://yourstorypodcast.com/about/donations-and...

Re: Efficiency vs Sustainability in Climate Change

rosshill — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:35:29 -0000

The systemic approach, that's the key!

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Re: Efficiency vs Sustainability in Climate Change

rosshill — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:50:04 -0000

It's just one way of looking at things that I find quite useful, since there is so much noise in the space at the moment!

Re: Search don’t Sort: Forget filing, and embrace searching

rosshill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:18:30 -0000

Yeah naming is certainly a big deal, particularly with the subject lines -
but I haven't had much trouble finding things in gmail. They've figured it
out somehow :)

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Re: Search don’t Sort: Forget filing, and embrace searching

rosshill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:33:36 -0000

Are you a windows man? I find quite a lot of the mac apps integrate
Spotlight search, which is pretty awesome, and if they don't integrate it
directly it's still there in the file view widgets.

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Re: Search don’t Sort: Forget filing, and embrace searching

rosshill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:30:56 -0000

That's interesting.. I wonder what you're missing out on? In Wave I can see
that we'll definitely need some finely tuned searches to keep on top of the
masses of realtime content, perhaps in email it's not such a big deal but it
would be cool to see how some power-label-users are doing it at the moment.
Mine are pretty limited - I filter mailing lists into labels and have a few
'folders' and that's it.

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Re: Search don’t Sort: Forget filing, and embrace searching

rosshill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:45:33 -0000

Spotlight makes Mail on a mac almost as good too - so you're not locked into gmail forever!

Re: Trampoline 2 topics at Donkey Wheel House

rosshill — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:13:01 -0000

Maybe it's "social gardening game", Farmtown on facebook? Haha.