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This is the collaborative pad for the internships at Mifactori in Winter/Spring 2021.
Everything in this pad is (unless otherwise noted) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
If not scheduled differently Mondays and Thursdays 16:00 here https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
Also on short notice inbetween. Just let Lars know 2 hours in advance via WhatsApp
Time: Sa April 19, 13:00 CEST at https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Ok. Let's look at our results.
Final discussions.
Let's find a date when we can meet for beer (if you want) and celebrate.
Time: Mo April 12, 13:00 CEST at https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
I looked at our current results. I think we should end our project with a publicaion. Here is how.
At the moment basically the "(2)" Sketches” document and the “3 Art Works” document are the same. We will merge them into a new one called (4) Deeper Look that will be part of the publication.
I thought we could transform Dhruvs Tutorial on Carbon Gardening into a publication. But it would require more work than we have time left to do.
Here is the ToDo List:
I divided the task. Some still have to be assigned.
Time: April 9, 13:00 CEST
at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Let's discuss the progress. ToDo for this meeting was:
Tasks
- Make a Step By Step tutorial to set up a Carbon Garden. Perspective of a machine a dull person that has 200m2 of land avaialable in a european city. Just tell the person what to do. Simple tasks put in a row that lead towards an end.
Gardens like these ar quite common in european cities where people with political power live ↑
Chose around 5 resources from the web about carbon gardening/regenerative agriculture you would recommend to beginners. Discuss them (summarize what you will learn there). A list of useful resources.
In a nutshell: What are the 3 key ideas of Carbon Gardening/Regenerative Agriculture?
What are does and don'ts of Carbon Gardening?
(Why like this? The idea is to make a good tutorial. A good tutorial instructs you to do things. A deeper understanding follows later.)
Time: April 6, 13:00 CEST
at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Let's discuss the progress. ToDo for this meeting was:
- I tried to add something to the table in the research pad. Didn't work. Don't know why. Maybe you know by now. Pls. fix.
- In our Sketches for Ideas Pad are new questions and still a couple of old questions unanswered. Please add answers there. Especially to the actvism part - tools and means and also demands. We'll need demands for our 3 little art works.
- Go into the 3 Art-Works Pad and start the ToDo sketched out there. Copy:
ToDo
General remark: Dive into the work. Try to see yourself as an artist here. You are not just a tool to answer a fixed question. Explore. Open. Connect. Think outside the box. Reconnect. Shape this. Teach.
Come up with loose ideas for all 3 areas and write them down. The idea should describe the "device" and the activism part connected to it. It will help to do research on the tools for activism. (New question in the sketches pad).
If you chose one of the ideas above please elaborate on them like this:
- Start to write down steps (collect sources for them)
- Specify how to political activism part works. What tools. Whom to address? With what message/demand?
Monday, March 29, 13:00 CET UPDATE: Postponed to March 31, 10:00 CET (Please start to work on the task below till already before this meeting!)
at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Lars: Ok. I read through the work and here is my suggestion where we go now:
And here is a sketch for a plan how to communicate this.
ToDo
General remark: Dive into the work. Try to see yourself as an artist here. You are not just a tool to answer a fixed question. Explore. Open. Connect. Think outside the box. Reconnect. Shape this. Teach.
Come up with loose ideas for all 3 areas and write them down. The idea should describe the "device" and the activism part connected to it. It will help to do research on the tools for activism. (New question in the sketches pad).
If you chose one of the ideas above please elaborate on them like this:
- Start to write down steps (collect sources for them)
- Specify how to political activism part works. What tools. Whom to address? With what message/demand?
Friday, March 26, 10:30 CET at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
ToDo was:
- We found some info on the questions in the ideas document. But we didn't fix them to make them really useful. So for next time Lars prepares some clear questions and put it in the ideas document (done) and D. + P. will write down answers. The goal is to have some kind of FAQ.
Friday, March 19, 10:30 CET at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
ToDo was:
- Work in the → sketches for ideas document. Add resources, questions and ideas. Explorative. Slowly move towards a better clearer picture of each step and the connections between them.
- When you find key articles and resoures still add them to the Research Pad. (Maybe we leave the table structure - it is fantastic to read but hard to create - decide for yourself)
Monday, March 15, 16:00 CET at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
TO DO from last meeting
- We decided to have a deeper look into the Electroswing adsorbtion system by MIT. Dhruv and Prahalad will go and study the paper now more in depth so we can slowly move towards a prototype.
- Change the pad to reflect the current state of the project.
(Discussion below ↓)
Thurday March 12, 10:00 at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Ok. Let's have a look at your work. Here is the TO DO for today.
Notes from the meeting:
Thurday March 4, 16:00 at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Ok. Let's have a look at your work. Here is the TO DO for today.
TODO ↓ Tasks for today were:
| Technology | How it works | Helpful for DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Name | A brief description with links to one or two articles to dive deeper into it. Just 3 or 4 sentences | A brief discussion of this under the scope of our research question |
See up in meeting 8 ↑
Monday March 1, 16:00 at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Ok. Let's have a look at your work. Here is the TO DO for today.
5.2. TO DO: Polish the pad and current research state/findings
Our project at this stage is an open research project on the question "DIY Carbon Capture". To have this project open the current state of the research needs to be accessible. You found some interesting links and resources. Please organize them preferably in a table with name, short summary and usefullness in the context of our research question. Maybe you can have headlines in between that separate the different research directions such as "Plants" "Industrial level" "Geoengineering" or whatever makes sense. Quickly to navigate - for us and others.
Pull the "Vision" & "Introduction" on the top of your pad into the README. See if the README reflects the state after you started to make the resources more accessible.
BTW. I have another open research project that I can only continue every other months for some hours. So I made it public - which is useful for myself (and maybe others) Here is how I structured this. As an inspiration - not as a request to do it exactly like that.
Carbon Capture Technologies. Screenshot from an episode about carbon capture by Just have think → It talks about a reseach paper by Greenpeace that evaluates these technologies (image is on page 14)
I put the tasks up to Meeting No 7 ↑
February 22, 16:00 at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Ok. Let’s have a look at your Pad. Any progress on the Meta-Part (READ ME, VISION and so on). Which Pad is it now?
Interesting insights, take aways, discussions from the Mozilla Open Leadership programme? Let's go through it together. What was which part about? How useful was it for the project so far - if so.
Ok. Let's have a look. What have you found so far? What can we make of it?
What do you think? Should we go already through the next stage of the project (which would be more about reading than doing I guess). Or do you want to spend some time to go deeper into some of the lessons of stage 3? (For example really pin down personas - play with this a bit.)
Our project at this stage is an open research project on the question "DIY Carbon Capture". To have this project open the current state of the research needs to be accessible. You found some interesting links and resources. Please organize them preferably in a table with name, short summary and usefullness in the context of our research question. Maybe you can have headlines in between that separate the different research directions such as "Plants" "Industrial level" "Geoengineering" or whatever makes sense. Quickly to navigate - for us and others.
Pull the "Vision" & "Introduction" on the top of your pad into the README. See if the README reflects the state after you started to make the resources more accessible.
BTW. I have another open research project that I can only continue every other months for some hours. So I made it public - which is useful for myself (and maybe others) Here is how I structured this. As an inspiration - not as a request to do it exactly like that.
Thursday, February 18, 16:00
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Let's have a look at the READMEs
Since you both work on the same idea we should (probably) start to work together. How do we want to go about it?
for next time
Please continue your journey through the Mozilla programme. Read through section 3.
The majority of the things described there are probably not interesting for your project right now. But ask youself for each thing if it is. And if so how. Or how it could inspire our project here. For example in defining tasks for yourself.
→ See Meeting 3 Point 3.5
Create a list of tasks for yourself for our next meeting. What would be the next logical steps to bring your project forward?
Let's collect the individual tasks for the next meeting here.
Agenda for tomorrow, February 16, 14:00
Meeting at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori
How are you? Any questions? Remarks?
Ok. Let’s have a look at your visions and discuss them.
Ok. Till next time please:
The goal of this internship is that you’ll do a lot of research. The key will be to have this research as accessible as possible for others and yourself. We’ll need to figure out how to make this work with a pad. We might restructure the pad a couple of times for this. But maybe we can have a clear structure really early on.
We will use this pad also invite collaborators. There is a comment function that will allow you to gather input from others.
Go through the entire part 2 of the Mozilla Open Leadership programme part 2 https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/opening-your-project/ . And do this for your project.
This is a lot for your little project. During your internship you’ll probably just do the research necessary before you start an actual open project. You can still envision how a larger project could look like. But stay focussed on where you are and will be in the coming days and weeks. This is your project. The Pre-phase. We will invite collaborators at some point – people that help you with the tasks and research questions you you’ll have.
Write your own README for this – your – small project. So we can invite people later.
This README will be a living thing over the course of your project. We need a start. This will also force you to think about what you want to do in the coming days and weeks of your internship.
Create a list of tasks for yourself for our next meeting. What would be the next logical steps to bring your project forward.
Research by yourself what are “free and open culture licenses”. And then make an informed decision about the license for your research document. Chose a license. Place a license remark in your pad.
While you are figuring all of this out you’ll probably already start to research your project a bit. The content.
Start a public collection of good resources.
We’ll need to figure out a way to make this as accessible as possible. I suggest (unless you have a better idea) to organize it in a table like this.
| No | Name of Article & Link | Content Summary | Useful for project |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Name | Summary, very short | Info |
February 12, 14:00 CET
Hello. Welcome. And sorry again for cancelling the last meeting on such short notice. But everything was there for you to read. I hope that helped.
We should start to go through the meeting 1 quickly and aggree on key things today. See Meeting 1 below ↓
Regardeless if you have or if you have not already decided what you'll work on here is what I want you to work on till our next meeting:
OK. That's it. See you Tuesday 14:00 in this room here.
February 6, 14:00 CET (Cancelled, written instead ↓)
Hi. Welcome. In this meeting I am going to explain to you what you'll do during your internship. After this you can decide if you want to be an intern here or not.
According to SRH you need to work 250 hours in your internship.
I suggest we start Friday February 12th and end on Friday April 16th. This makes 9 weeks.
250h/9weeks = ~ 27.5h per week, this is:
You can manage your own time flexibly. But it would be nice if we can aggree that you'll do 27,5 per week. When there is one week where you want to do much more or much less, pls. let me know in advance.
How does this sound?
Since it is a pandemic there is no place where we can sit together. So you'll work in your own location. Let's see, if we can find at least one or two possibilities to meet in person. At least in the end to celebrate :-)
This means everything will be online.
We will find 2 regular dates per week where all of us will meet. These meetings can last for up to 2 hours. In this meetings you will present the progress of your work, we will discuss it in our group and put together a list of tasks for you for the next meeting.
Plenums dates (suggestion): Tuesdays and Fridays 14:00
Would this work for you?
I will also be available everyday for you between the meetings to chat, answer questions and so on. All face to face (if possible not written). There is the chance to open up a spontaneous video meeting everyday (except Sunday) at 14:00. If you want this let me know 2 hours in advance that day and notify me via WhatsApp or SMS/Imessage (+49 176 21865 009) - not email.
Spontaneous Meetings: Everyday except Sunday 14:00
Ok? Does this work for you?
You will have your own relatively independent project and create public resource.
You will describe, develop and document your project in a public pad - like this one you look at right now. All your progress, findings, questions, links and ideas will end up there. So over the course of your internship you'll develop a public resource. It will be a key to structure this pad in a way that it really can be used as a public resource.
While you'll produce that pad and develop your project you'll be guided by the methodology of the Mozilla Open Leadership Programme – The Mozilla Open Leadership Programme is a high quality resource that teaches how to start and run an open (source) project. You'll learn a lot from this.
At some point I might make your projects public also through the Mifactori-Website.
It will be required that the work you create in the project and share in the pad is shared under an open source license - preferably the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Make sure you understand what that means by the next meeting. If you don't want to share your work this way this internship is not the right one for you.
You'll have the possibility to pick your own project. Of course it will be projects that fit Mifactori and will help the studio to progress. Here is a list of possible projects.
Ok. That is what is on the menu.
You don't have to figure out which project you want to make before the next meeting. Figuring this out will already be part of the internship which starts February 12. But if you want to make your own project idea you should have a sketch ready for the first official meeting to see if your idea fits or not and we quickly can figure out if you'll be happy in this internship or not.
When you'll arrive at a point in your project where you want to prototype something we'll have a small budget for you for materials of 200 EUR this budget might be increased if necessary or useful. But for now let's plan to stay within the budget or below. In this internship you'll not create or build on expensive or complex prototypes.
What to expect from each other?
I expect hard work ad commitment. A key to good collaboration is that you protect the time of your colleagues and make only use of it if absolutely necessary. Be prepared and honest. Make it easy for others to quickly understand what is going on and how they can help you.
I made actually time in my schedule to work with you on these projects. You can expect and demand commitment, honisty and support from my side.
It is key to understand that Mifactori is not an engineering or technology firm instead it is about low tech - DIY like - simple solutions. I am not a trained engineer. You can't expect a lot of guidance from me when it comes to complex technical questions. To understand better the scope of Mifactori and my expertise I recommend to study the Mifactori website.
Is there anything else you hope for? Would like to ask for?
Thank you and all the best,
Lars
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