# Internship @Mifactori – DIY Carbon Capture Project

This is the collaborative pad for the **internships** at [Mifactori](https://mifactori.de/) 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

## Quick Links

* [(1.) Our Projects Pad – DIY Carbon Capture Research](https://hackmd.io/NuoxefDoSDuqPqepbr9bAg?view)
* [(2.) Sketches for ideas & FAQ "A Chain?"](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view)
* [(3.) 3 ART WORKS Pad](https://hackmd.io/2PZgCilfT7qoNRZ-JdrOIA?view) - moving towards tutorials
* [(4.) Deeper Look Pad](https://hackmd.io/ubgkpPB6SkSF9sjhAPjMbQ?both) (where we bring 2 & 3 together for publicaion)
* [(5.) Blogpost Pad](https://hackmd.io/Bb5iSeYKQOSDfMSDInythA) – where we develop the public appearance on the Mifactori website. (on hold)
* [Open Canvas for the Project (from planning phase)](https://i.imgur.com/E3UFXQ1.png)

## Meetings

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

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# Meeting 16 (Closing Meeting)

Time: Sa April 19, 13:00 CEST at https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Finish

Ok. Let's look at our results.

Final discussions.

## 3 Celebration Meeting

Let's find a date when we can meet for beer (if you want) and celebrate.

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# Meeting 15

Time: Mo April 12, 13:00 CEST at https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 How to finish this

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](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view) and the [“3 Art Works” document](https://hackmd.io/2PZgCilfT7qoNRZ-JdrOIA?view) are the same. We will **merge** them into a new one called [(4) Deeper Look](https://hackmd.io/ubgkpPB6SkSF9sjhAPjMbQ?view) 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:

## 3 ToDo

I divided the task. Some still have to be assigned.

### LARS

+ Polish the **"Activism"** part in the new document.
+ Rewrite the README to reflect the current state
+ Sketch a [Blogpost](https://hackmd.io/Bb5iSeYKQOSDfMSDInythA) to share for the publication to agree upon.
+ Make a visual for the "Deeper Look" document.

### DHRUV

* Merge the information on **Regenerative Agriculture & Carbon Gardening** from Pad 2+3 here in → [Pad 4](https://hackmd.io/ubgkpPB6SkSF9sjhAPjMbQ?view). Sort the information into the questions posted there - answer them. Use bullet points. Add links. Try to polish it nicely, it will be published.
* When there are graphics copied via Screenshot you need to add the source for it.
* Add the copyright remark to the new document

### PRAHALAD

* Merge the information on **Enhanced Weatherig** & **Biochar** from Pad 2+3 here in → [Pad 4](https://hackmd.io/ubgkpPB6SkSF9sjhAPjMbQ?view). Sort the information into the questions posted there - answer them. Use bullet points. Add links. Try to polish it nicely, it will be published.
* When there are graphics copied via Screenshot you need to add the source for it.
* Polish the Research Pad (The link to the concrete video is still not in the table)

### UNASIGNED

+ Make sure, that our Research Pad is polished through one more time

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# Meeting 14

Time: April 9, 13:00 CEST

at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Work in Progress

Let's discuss the progress. ToDo for this meeting was:

* Order Pizza upfront
* Write down the results from the Enhanced Weathering research
* This ->

>Tasks
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>1. 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.
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*Gardens like these ar quite common in european cities where people with political power live ↑*
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>2. 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.
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>3. In a nutshell: What are the 3 key ideas of Carbon Gardening/Regenerative Agriculture?
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>4. What are does and don'ts of Carbon Gardening?
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>(Why like this? The idea is to make a good tutorial. A **good tutorial** instructs you to do things. A deeper understanding follows later.)

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# Meeting 13

Time: April 6, 13:00 CEST

at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Work in Progress

Let's discuss the progress. ToDo for this meeting was:

>1. I tried to add something to the table [in the research pad](https://hackmd.io/NuoxefDoSDuqPqepbr9bAg). Didn't work. Don't know why. Maybe you know by now. Pls. fix.
>2. In our [Sketches for Ideas Pad](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view) 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.
>3. Go into the [3 Art-Works Pad ](https://hackmd.io/2PZgCilfT7qoNRZ-JdrOIA?view)and start the ToDo sketched out there. Copy:
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>>## 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.
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>>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](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view)).
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>>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?

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# Meeting 12

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

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Work in Progress

Lars: Ok. I read through the work and here is my suggestion where we go now:

[→ 3 engineering art works](https://hackmd.io/2PZgCilfT7qoNRZ-JdrOIA)

And here is a sketch for a plan how to communicate this.

[→ Blogpost (Version 2)](https://hackmd.io/Bb5iSeYKQOSDfMSDInythA)

## 3 ToDo For This Meeting

1. I tried to add something to the table [in the research pad](https://hackmd.io/NuoxefDoSDuqPqepbr9bAg). Didn't work. Don't know why. Maybe you know by now. Pls. fix.
2. In our [Sketches for Ideas Pad](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view) 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.
3. Go into the [3 Art-Works Pad ](https://hackmd.io/2PZgCilfT7qoNRZ-JdrOIA?view)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.
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>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](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view)).
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>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?

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# Meeting 11

Friday, March 26, 10:30 CET at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Check the Progress

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](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg) (done) and D. + P. will write down answers. The goal is to have some kind of FAQ.

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# Meeting 10

Friday, March 19, 10:30 CET at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Check the Progress

ToDo was:

>* Work in the → sketches for [ideas](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view) 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)

## 3 Discussion & ToDo

+ 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](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg) (done) and D. + P. will write down answers. The goal is to have some kind of FAQ.

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# Meeting 9

Monday, March 15, 16:00 CET at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Check the Progress

TO DO from last meeting

>+ We decided to have a deeper look into the [Electroswing adsorbtion system by MIT](https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remove-carbon-dioxide-air-1025). 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.
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>(Discussion below ↓)

### Questions/Things to discuss
* **Biochar.** What is the problem here? I found this DIY like video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZlJSo8RNAY - Why did you think it is not interesting for DIY? Why is Biochar not better rated by Greenpeace? In the city there are a lot of backyard gardens. Could we leverage these? | Here is another video for an DIY oven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJ34fekM2E + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIbGkmt1VdE + if you google for DIY biochar oven a lot of stuff pops up
* **Going public?** How about starting to invite others? Starting from [this blogpost? ](https://hackmd.io/Bb5iSeYKQOSDfMSDInythA) / What strategies to go live?
* **Ocean alkanisation** does not have a link. Do we know antything about the chemicals involved? I found this: https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/carbon-removal/fact-sheet-ocean-alkalinization.cfm Is there a better source?
* **Combine the techniques?** Do I understand it right: Enhanced Weathering and Ocean Alcanisation go together?
* **Filters?** In [this video at at 8:50](https://youtu.be/DGoOmUIYVSo?t=530) filters for industrial plants are mentioned and that they are not widespread. What are these filters? Who makes them? Why aren't they used more widely? -> Capture the carbon where it emerges.
* **Combination?** Do Biochar and regenerative agriculture go together?
* **Do?** Let's do some research on the **plants.** What plants grow the fastest? What mix is healthy? Is it locally different? It we want to go deeper into this idea what subquestions pop up?
* **→ Sketches** for [ideas](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view) for the work ongoing

## 3 Minutes

* The research has shown that the MIT paper is chemically and economically to complex for us - for DIY.
* D. + P. presented a finding "Carbon Gardeing". There are some resources on it out there.
* Lars showed his sketches for [ideas](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view). We agreed on them. And will work on them.

## 4 TO DO

* Work in the → sketches for [ideas](https://hackmd.io/0jHObn93TumzApPD1sFgPg?view) document. Add resources, questions and ideas. Explorative. Slowly move towards a better clearer picture of each step and the connections between them.

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# Meeting 8

Thurday March 12, 10:00 at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Work in Progress

Ok. Let's have a look at your work. Here is the TO DO for today.

* Reorganize the PAD as discussed. (1) Section about methods. (2) section about articles. (3) open questions.
~~Don't forget to order your "Pizza". Details for the Paypal-Account will follow per email.~~ (cancelled because meeting was postponed)

## 3 Let's figure out the path foward

Notes from the meeting:

+ Pad looks good now.
+ We decided to have a deeper look into the [Electroswing absorbtion system by MIT](https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remove-carbon-dioxide-air-1025). 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.

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# Meeting 7

Thurday March 4, 16:00 at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Work in Progress

Ok. Let's have a look at your work. Here is the TO DO for today.

**TODO ↓ Tasks for today were:**

* Watch the movie ["Kiss the ground" ](https://kissthegroundmovie.com/)
* Clean up the README Part:
* Pull togehter the 4 paragraphs from the README and Vision into one or two. Make sure the DIY part is highlighted
* Get rid of the headlines in between
* Add a paragraph about what we are doing right now
* Add a link to the image and get rid of it in the READ ME
* Name! Give the project a name that gives away what it is about "DIY Carbon Capture" - maybe you can think of something better
* Improve the article collection
* Add a third column to the article collection called "helpful for DIY"
* Add a couple of links (for example the one about the 10 plants you showed me the last time)
* Add a new subsection to the Pad about the different Carbon Capture Technologies.
* Let's try to organize this as a table too. Maybe like this (test if it works):

| 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 |

* I didn't mention it in the meeting. But add a third headline called "Open Question - Help Wanted". And start to collect there questions you would like to ask to "the audience" or co-developers of the project.
* TODO for Lars: Figure out how we can have Pizza together :-)

## 3 TODO for next time

See up in meeting 8 ↑

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# Meeting 6

Monday March 1, 16:00 at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Work in Progress

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
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>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.
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>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.
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>BTW. I have [another open research project](https://mifactori.de/anti-consumerism-research/) 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.

## 3 Discussion


Carbon Capture Technologies. Screenshot from an [episode about carbon capture by Just have think](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGoOmUIYVSo&t=695s) → It talks about a [reseach paper by Greenpeace](https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Net-Expectations-Greenpeace-CDR-briefing.pdf) that evaluates these technologies (image is on page 14)

## 4 TO DO: Next Steps

I put the tasks up to Meeting No 7 ↑

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# Meeting 5

February 22, 16:00 at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

+ BTW. I forgot to mention **adblockers** the last time. Do you know about them?

## 2 Your projects - READMEs

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?

## 3 Mozilla Open Leadership programme

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.

## 4 Your projects - content

Ok. Let's have a look. What have you found so far? What can we make of it?

## 5 TO DO for next time

### 5.1 TO DO: Mozilla Open Leadership programme (?)

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.)

### 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](https://mifactori.de/anti-consumerism-research/) 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.

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# Meeting 4

Thursday, February 18, 16:00

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

## 2 Your projects

Let's have a look at the READMEs

## 3 Working together

Since you both work on the same idea we should (probably) start to work together. How do we want to go about it?

## 4 TO DO

for next time

### 4.1 Mozilla Open Leadership Step 3

Please continue your journey through [the Mozilla programme.](https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/building-communities-of-contributors/) 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.

### 4.2 Continue the collection of resources

→ See Meeting 3 Point 3.5

### 4.3 Create a list of tasks

Create a list of tasks for yourself for our next meeting. What would be the next logical steps to bring your project forward?

### 4.4 Individual Tasks

Let's collect the individual tasks for the next meeting here.

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# Meeting 3

**Agenda for tomorrow, February 16**, 14:00

Meeting at: https://meet.jit.si/Mifactori

## 1 Check in

How are you? Any questions? Remarks?

* We have to find new permanent dates.

## 2 Your visions/projects

Ok. Let’s have a look at your visions and discuss them.

## 3 TO DO All

Ok. Till next time please:

### 3.1 A public note

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.

### 3.2 Open Leadership Programme Part 2, write your README

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.

### 3.3 Create a list of tasks

Create a list of tasks for yourself for our next meeting. What would be the next logical steps to bring your project forward.

### 3.4 Licenses

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.

### 3.5 Start a collection of resources

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](https://hackmd.io/PaaZM-ByQBWeF41AKbIY0g) | Summary, very short | Info

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# Meeting 2

**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.

## 1 Times, Conditions + Co

We should start to go through the meeting 1 quickly and aggree on key things today. See Meeting 1 below ↓

## 2 TO DO First Tasks

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:

### 2.1 Chose a project

* Make up your mind what project you want to work on if you haven't already.

### 2.2. hackmd

* Sign up to this website here (hackmd.io) and make yourself [familiar with it](https://hackmd.io/c/tutorials/%2Fs%2Ftutorials). You'll work with it a lot.
* Create your first note here and send me the link (via email)

### 2.3 Mozilla Open Leadership

* Visit the Mozilla [Open Leadership](https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/introduction-to-open-leadership/) programme. And go through the entire first section "1. Intro to Open Leaership" with all 4 subpoints.

### 2.4 Your Vision

* Sub point 4 of the Introduction to the Open Leadership programme has a first practical task: [write down a vision for your project in your pad (your first note).](https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/introduction-to-open-leadership/stating-your-project-vision/)
* Give your project a name for this too.
* Use this task to really try to **narrow your scope**. This will probably ask for some research already. What do you think can be done? Would make sense?

### 2.5 Collect your questions

* Please collect all the questions that come up during your research and write them down in your pad.

OK. That's it. See you Tuesday 14:00 in this room here.

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# Meeting 1

**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.

## 1 Time. How much and when?

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:

+ 4h per day in a 7-day-week, or
+ 5,5h per day in a 5-day-week, or
+ 3,5 days per week with 8-hour-days

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?

## 2 How we will meet

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.**

### 2.1 Regular Meetings

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?

### 2.2 Spontaneous Meetings

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 ([phone]) - not email.

Spontaneous Meetings: Everyday except Sunday 14:00

Ok? Does this work for you?

## 3 What you'll work on, what you'll learn and how we'll collaborate

You will have your own relatively independent project and create public resource.

### 3.1 Public Pad

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](https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/introduction-to-open-leadership/) – 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 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.

### 3.2 Your Projects

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.

1. **Carbon Capture DIY** - Part of the Paris climate agreement are carbon capture technologies. But I have not heard much about them. Your project will be to research what ideas are out there and if there is a way to create a very simple DIY solution to capture carbon from the atmosphere. Ideally your project is a first stepping stone to a technology like this - DIY.
2. **Modularize It** – On the Mifactori website you can find [the description of a research project on modularity.](https://mifactori.de/modularize-it/) The research project is about identifying widespread and multiuse modular building solutions that are out there and to come up with hacks for them. If you pick this project you'll end up diving into **one of the many aspects** of this research question and bring up results that are probably very useful for designers and related professions. You can read about the research project [here](https://mifactori.de/modularize-it/) - The text is only available in german but the built in translation of the chrome or firefox browser will allow you to grasp what it is about.
3. **100 Zero Waste Hacks (Improved With Design**) – Zero Waste is the name of a global movement for sustainable life styles. The movement is mostly driven by (young) woman. It collects and shares a lot of tips and little hacks that help you to avoid waste or reduce it. In this project you'll dive deep into this world and create a collection of these hacks and solutions focussing on hacks that basically have a design idea in its core or are [Pre-Use](https://mifactori.de/pre-use/). In a later stage we'll ask how these hacks could be improved with Design. So you'll come up with little inventions/ideas for Design objects. And maybe built and document a prototype of one or more ideas.
4. **YOUR IDEA** - As announced in the description of the internship you also have the possibility to create your own project – following your own idea. BUT the idea must fit Mifactori. Please study the website to understand the context your work in and work for. Start with the [Mission Statement](https://mifactori.de/mission-statement/) and the article "[What Is Open Circular Design](https://mifactori.de/what-is-open-design/)". Mifactori is about simple, low tech and DIY friendly solutions that aim for cirularity. Circularity is key.

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.

### 3.3 Budget for materials

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.

## 4 Expectations

What to expect from each other?

### 4.1 What do I expect?

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.

### 4.2 What can you expect?

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?

## 5 TODO For next meeting please

* **Make up your mind** if you want to do this internship after we discussed all of the above. If yes, I am happy to see you in the next meeting. If no, please send me a short email.

Thank you and all the best,

Lars