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 Think of a time in FoAM's recent past when you felt that you were a part of a thriving network. What happened? How did you feel? What made this situation possible? Think of a time in FoAM's recent past when you felt that you were a part of a thriving network. What happened? How did you feel? What made this situation possible?
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 +  * Machine Wilderness
 +  * Fo[am]tones
 +  * bxl visit to kernow
 +  * Lucid dreaming workshop
 +  * Helping each other with funding applications
 +  * GroWorld bazaar on gRig Froesjels
 +  * Futures of Unconditional Basic Income
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 +What made these situations work?
 +  * overlap of interests
 +  * mutual support
 +  * connections that didn't require a central HQ
 +  * ideas developed by foam, taken up by an individual, transformed, fed back into the foam network, in different locations and contexts, with different people (project embedded in FoAM, but having a unique personal expression) 
 +  * it looks and feels like foam, no matter where it is: hosting culture
 +  * feels like being a part of a shared, experimental culture
 +  * things need to be experienced, just talking about foam's work rarely makes sense to people (but we 'know' what is and isn't foam...)
 +  * feels like a family, ease of relationships, willingness to help (and be silly together): things happen and everyone has fun.
 +  * doing something on your own, but knowing that this couldn't happen if it wasn't a part of the network; like dropping a pebble in a pond and watching the ripples (often being surprised by them)
  
  
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 Social media: Social media:
   * Twitter: continuous 'ambient noise' emanating from FoAM. All of us are on twitter, so all of us should tweet/retweet from @_foam account as well. So far Nik and Maja have been doing the majority of this, but we hope that others will take it up too: https://twitter.com/_foam   * Twitter: continuous 'ambient noise' emanating from FoAM. All of us are on twitter, so all of us should tweet/retweet from @_foam account as well. So far Nik and Maja have been doing the majority of this, but we hope that others will take it up too: https://twitter.com/_foam
-  * Medium: shared publishing platform for considered articles, papers, reflection pieces, manifestos... The quality  of the pieces published on medium is more important than the informal blogposts: https://twitter.com/_foam+  * Medium: shared publishing platform for considered articles, papers, reflection pieces, manifestos... The quality  of the pieces published on medium is more important than the informal blogposts: https://medium.com/@foam/
   * Slack: synchronous chats and informal conversations: https://tangle.slack.com/   * Slack: synchronous chats and informal conversations: https://tangle.slack.com/
   * Facebook: page we currently use to 'broadcast' updates and events. If others are more active there its use could change as needed https://www.facebook.com/foam.network/   * Facebook: page we currently use to 'broadcast' updates and events. If others are more active there its use could change as needed https://www.facebook.com/foam.network/
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-==What should we do with out digital and physical archive (at FoAM bxl)?==+==What should we do with our digital and physical archive (at FoAM bxl)?==
  
   * Spring cleaning   * Spring cleaning
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   * A distributed network of people from disparate fields and cultures, working and living together in uncertain times, guided by our motto "grow your own worlds".   * A distributed network of people from disparate fields and cultures, working and living together in uncertain times, guided by our motto "grow your own worlds".
   * Inter/postdisciplinary platform    * Inter/postdisciplinary platform 
 +  * a way to exist between hard and well defined structures
  
  
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   * We have an opportunity. The brain has evolved in a way which means that more connections can be made than ever before. More neurons, more power.     * We have an opportunity. The brain has evolved in a way which means that more connections can be made than ever before. More neurons, more power.  
   * Existing institutions, economic and operational models don't allow us to be human beings we want to be and do things that would make our species evolve beyond its current wasteful and unsustainable state   * Existing institutions, economic and operational models don't allow us to be human beings we want to be and do things that would make our species evolve beyond its current wasteful and unsustainable state
 +  * there is a need to connect unlikely bedfellows
  
  
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   * Daring to ask "what if", prototyping possible futures as alternate presents, redesigning education, reinvigorating our living environments, contemplating, hosting and otherwise encouraging serendipity and synchronicity to allow new possibilities to emerge.   * Daring to ask "what if", prototyping possible futures as alternate presents, redesigning education, reinvigorating our living environments, contemplating, hosting and otherwise encouraging serendipity and synchronicity to allow new possibilities to emerge.
   * Prototyping, artistic research...   * Prototyping, artistic research...
 +  * being a jellyfish, maintaining outside perspectives while working to understand others
  
  
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   * The freedom to explore and make the most of this opportunity.   * The freedom to explore and make the most of this opportunity.
   * provoking conversations, sharing of information and knowledge freely, supporting understanding & being generally nice people   * provoking conversations, sharing of information and knowledge freely, supporting understanding & being generally nice people
-  * A more holistic, inclusive, interstitial culture growing out of cracks of decaying global capitalism... and take over the world!+  * A more holistic, inclusive, interstitial culture growing out of cracks of decaying global capitalism...  
 +  * a way to make this possible, to move beyond where we are
  
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 How do we encourage more joint activities? How do we share and make the most of new opportunities?  How do we encourage more joint activities? How do we share and make the most of new opportunities? 
  
 +To begin with: more frequent informal contact (weekly tangle updates, monthly conference calls, slack chats, posting interests, following each other's work...).
 ==== People ==== ==== People ====
  
-Who is currently in the FoAM network? How do we streamline the selection (and movement) of people, projects, new studios, etc?+== Who is currently in the FoAM network? ==  
 + 
 +http://fo.am/people/ 
 + 
 +-> should be more frequently updates (people added and taken off...) 
 + 
 +it is possible to include non-human entities (oscar, hiccup, etc.), as long as they are connected to some activities/events/blogposts...
  
 +==How do we streamline the selection (and movement) of people, projects, new studios, etc?==
  
 +People: We do this informally by talking about it to each other, also introducing new people on our communication channels. By now most of us have an intuition who is a good fit for the network, so no need for strict selection criteria. We know we'll make mistakes too, but that's a part of the process...
  
 +Projects: Questions to ask yourself are here: http://lib.fo.am/foam_projects
  
 +New studios: This needs more work on the part of the 'jellyfish', to support the embryonic studios in their inclusion in the network, the financial and infrastructural support, etc. We would need to contact with Maki, Hans & Veronique to see about how to establish studios is Tokyp/Okinawa (JP) and Treasure Beach (JM)... to follow up after the fallow period of foam bxl... 
 ==== Next Steps ==== ==== Next Steps ====
  
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     * existing tools (e.g. sparkleshare, loomio, slack, flickr…)     * existing tools (e.g. sparkleshare, loomio, slack, flickr…)
     * FoAM server / website     * FoAM server / website
 +    * see https://repo.fo.am/foam/systems/wikis/overview
   * Caclulate and communicate total yearly cost for Linode and other online services   * Caclulate and communicate total yearly cost for Linode and other online services
   * Make a psw file on repo   * Make a psw file on repo
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 All / Kernow All / Kernow
   * start thinking about the FoAM retreat in 2017 (including an internal crypto party): possible site: somewhere in Cornwall (alternatives: Greece, Italy, Croatia, etc.)   * start thinking about the FoAM retreat in 2017 (including an internal crypto party): possible site: somewhere in Cornwall (alternatives: Greece, Italy, Croatia, etc.)
 +  * Research if there are current EC funding opportunities for EU networks, such as this one: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/actions/culture/creative-europe-culture-european-networks_en (now closed, but maybe there are other similar schemes)
  

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