That all our programs are pre-approved, in a sense, that it doesn’t overly burden any particular level, and that it always make one of the three level’s life easier without sacrificing the two. Every step is very small, but taken together I have met no resistance.
In the open source world, we say we start with scratching one’s own itch.
One start with scratching one’s own itch. We start open source project not for some ambitious mission, but to solve some problem that affects myself, to solve my own problem. Then we share the solutions, because it makes things better.
The other thing is that’s how it should be. If we randomly say communities should work together, it doesn’t really work like that. If we can systematically go around and that see people contributing to the same topic, like any one of the SDG’s items without them knowing about it, which is why I tour around Taiwan and go to international conferences, as a connector.
I can tell people, "Hey, look at the radically transparent transcript of two weeks ago. There’s one person there, over there, in the other part of the island, solving the same problem as you, using a different approach. You two should talk."
This kind of problem-based learning, it’s really good for co-intelligence, and is also very good to solve the loneliness problem for social entrepreneurs, because many of them think that they are the only one in their neighborhood caring about one particular global issue, but they’re actually not alone. There’s many people worrying and caring about the same issue.
What we can do as the space makers is to make sure there’s a kitchen, there’s plenty of food, there is a resident chef actually. There is a large room with white board, with no decorations, and people can use it however they want.
We charge no rent of using the space. It opens until 11:00 PM, and whenever you have a regulator issue, just talk to a minister. Yeah, this kind of environment is what we really can do, instead of filling in like this. There is one of my favorite Taoist passages. "The use of what is, is in what isn’t." The use of a cup is in a part of a cup that is empty. That’s the point.
The use of the room and the windows is in the part that it allow people to inhabit. We strive to become a channel and become a space. Make sure it’s comfortable, so that people when joining this space become acquaintances with good associations of each other’s radically daydreaming ideal like universal basic income.
Making sure that there is a productive discussion, and it is a facilitating space making role, I think. The government can still play, too, a role while there is still government.
It’s interim, transitional role before we can become fully anarchistic.
It’s good. It’s OK.
Sure.
It’s all good.
Thank you.
Wow, 林爽文... This is very local content.
This is super local.
Illustrations.
Would any of your members happen to be in Taichung or Taiwan around May 5th and 6th?
So come to the meeting.
I’m pretty sure I’ll come to Edinburgh. I don’t know about others...
Supposedly, one of the SEWF team is also coming to the our event. We can figure out directly in May. I don’t know much about the September planning before May, actually.
That’s right, that’s right.
The tailor of Chiang Kai-shek you mentioned last time?
The family of tailors for Chiang Kai-shek.
Just include that in your email, and we’ll go through it point by point.
Yeah. It’s great to have this chat.
I will send you the transcripts in the next 24 hours.
Yeah, the vTaiwan people, they’re there.
Yeah, exactly.
Everybody, including me, is here for the pizza.
We’re good. All right, cheers.
Ciao.
Would you care for a coffee, or water?
Cool.
It was awesome there. My first one.
You’ve been there before?
Oh, you did?
I knew Nat for ~20 years, and the Foo unconference format, we have replicated it a lot here in Taiwan. However I didn’t know that Nat went back to New Zealand — and I didn’t know that he brought the Foo there with him.
A decade or something?
I think it’s a hundred new people every time? That helps.
The diversity status is also awesome... I was so surprised; it meant something. In Silicon Valley, when people threw up something like this, sometimes they just gather people very similar to them, but this time in New Zealand, it was perfect.
[laughs]
Wow. What made you do you it?
A naturalized Kiwi.
Yeah. For the Open Source // Open Society conference.
Yeah. It’s lovely.
Awesome win.
I’ve heard of it.
Before the term open source? That was in ’97...
