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**What are you up for?**
Friday 29 September 2023


Mix:
- Within my life I have a need to earn a specific amount of money
    - I want to be making more than $100k!
- The thing that I am up for is growing, communities and be generative.
- Well resourced expedition
- I'm really keen to discuss money around Āhau
    - Sustainability of finances
- See what other people need
- Will it come from Āhau or somewhere else?
- If that resourcing was available with Āhau, I would be there.
- If 8 - 9 months no money, can scrape together and loop back.


Engie:
- what fires me up:
  - supporting whanau, hapu, community to use tech, to build, bridging digital divide
  - how do I create opportunities, to start a tech company
- love this team, beautiful diversity
- I'm 100% here to see this through with Ahau
  - I'd like to be a "partner" of Ahau
  - the tech company I want to start is alongside Ahau
  - I think I'm going to be invited to chair my family Marae
  - don't want to leave!
    - there's a broader picture I'm working on (Mix's summary)
    - Ahau is core to that, but not all of it
- energy is there, the time needs to be balanced
  - "where am I needed most, where are my skill best used?"
    - that's where I go
  


Jo:
- my work has been supporting "passionate people" (entrepeneurs, project builders, ...)
- part of the pain has been finding out what's missing (for generative communities to thrive)
- ahau is awesome, but it's missing resourcing
  - identifying "the system" does not currently work to enable community efforts
    - founded on "invisible work", that's not accounted for
    - e.g. looking after the kids, getting the internet installed, managing the community space
    - Finance 100% the necessary infrastructure for everything to happen
    - charity/ philanthropy/ investment ... sectors interests and incentives are NOT aligned. 
    - => "finance OS" is my interest
      - enable collective action between humans
      - this has it's best chance if it comes from Te Ao Maori perspective
    
- "I have a great ambition, but it's also very small because it's about my kids. About the world I want to see them live in."
- providing public digital infrastructure for the Maori economy
- I want to build strong relationships for Ahau and this work
  - I don't know what the core of it is right now though
    - funding?
    - people?
  - potential partners
    - tim waldren from DIA => consulting lead
      - currently blocked on engaging that because:
        - is Ben gonna show up?
        - unclarity around how the whanau registration worked/ didn't work?
  - need to know the shape of the org to know how to connect it with others appropriately

- large opportunity
  - cardano 
    - didn't get Fund10 funding (only a few really well companies got funding)
    - could make us a "known company" if I know 
    - running the fund has levelled up the ream hosting it
      - making "project catalyst" replicateable
      - who's interested in forking this and running it?
    - what if we find more "Engie's", and resource them and their communities
        - what if we could support 200 communities


