5-15 minute quick tasks. Daily Progress and updates.

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Master list of Social Groups.

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@kindaPM

This thread is for quick tasks that take 5-15 minutes.... You will get a notification but please do them at your leisure. I know you're all busy. Everyone, please bookmark this page as it is the core of our current strategy.

Questions about Flying V, Demo Hour and Red Tortoise

• Do they have "widgets"for each project? A widget is some code for each project that you can host on a site. Like this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lighstorm/lightstorm-the-worlds-first-eurorack-light-synthes/widget
• Can you use Paypal to pay for any of these sites?
• Can a Taiwanese person start a project on demo hour? i.e. do they accept Taiwanese bank details?

You may want to go to their Facebook page to ask them...

Have a good day. It's sunny.

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What are the major job-hunting/social groups in Chinese? How to answer their questions...?

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List of Facebook groups for jobs

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@kindaPM The main priorities this week are

1) To investigate FB groups to make friends and colleagues. - LIST MADE 2) Learn about Red Turtle and Flying V. - FOUND ZECZEC! 3) Plan hackathon and fundraising parties for the future. - ONGOING.

Updates in ALL CAPS.

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@kindaPM

Can you read this link? I wrote a short email, need it checked and then we can send it to FlyingV and Red Tortoise. That will help us raise money per month...

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=zh-TW&text=Hi%2C%0A%0AI%20love%20your%20website.%20I%20have%20a%20couple%20of%20questions.%20%0A%0A1)%20Would%20you%20consider%20a%20monthly%20payment%20feature%3F%0A2)%20Do%20you%20guys%20have%20widgets%20to%20share%20crowdfunded%20projects%3F%0A%0AThanks%20for%20your%20answers!%0A%0ABest%20Wishes%2C%0A%0AJake

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Yes, I can read it. but it's weird that Jake is translated into a "reliable person"

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Oh hahaha.

If there are any corrections we can make them later...

On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 23:43, kindaPM notifications@github.com wrote:

@kindaPM https://github.com/kindaPM

Can you read this link? I wrote a short email, need it checked and then we can send it to FlyingV and Red Tortoise. That will help us raise money per month...

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=zh-TW&text=Hi%2C%0A%0AI%20love%20your%20website.%20I%20have%20a%20couple%20of%20questions.%20%0A%0A1)%20Would%20you%20consider%20a%20monthly%20payment%20feature%3F%0A2)%20Do%20you%20guys%20have%20widgets%20to%20share%20crowdfunded%20projects%3F%0A%0AThanks%20for%20your%20answers!%0A%0ABest%20Wishes%2C%0A%0AJake

Yes, I can read it. but it's weird that Jake is translated into a "reliable person"

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Article: Our funding roadmap. Clear and broken down.

Early draft here:

https://github.com/Microflow/Mykra/wiki/Our-Fundraising-Roadmap

FB post: Who can raise money in Taiwan?

Check the legal situation. Looks like we need to raise 1 or 2 million to get the entrepreneurs visa. Do they have a contact page?

https://startup.sme.gov.tw/taiwan-entrepreneur-visa-faqs/

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Part 2. Your team has received domestic or foreign venture capital or funding via a qualified crowdfunding platform of at least NTD2 million.

Q: Does the entity receiving the crowdfunding have to be the one related to the purpose of the Entrepreneur Visa?

A: Yes, it has to be related to the entity used to apply for the Entrepreneur Visa.

Q: Is it enough that one of the team members have previously received crowdfunding?

A: No, has to be THIS team.

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Awesome Crowdfunding Site. Has subscriptions

https://www.zeczec.com/?m_page=2

@kindaPM . Zec zec is really good, cos they have monthly subscriptions. Could solve all our issues. I need to find what their monthly minimum is. The lower the better. Hopefully it will be 5,000. Cheers.

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Costumice. Great responsive design. Looks better on mobile:

https://www.costumice.com.tw/?fbclid=IwAR2GfD1M0ChfQL4H82ZIPNbLJ9TKThPHaw4qGYLcR44iHdVlINvHxDh6R5k

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Awesome Crowdfunding Site. Has subscriptions

https://www.zeczec.com/?m_page=2

@kindaPM . Zec zec is really good, cos they have monthly subscriptions. Could solve all our issues. I need to find what their monthly minimum is. The lower the better. Hopefully it will be 5,000. Cheers.

I've checked Zec Zec website, it seems no minimum amount limited as the amount input field can be key in any amount, anyway I 've also asked them on their FB fan page, we'll see

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@kindaPM Sounds like good news. Let's double check 1000TWD is possible, and see what bank details they need. Proof of concept:

• 500TWD for someone to spend one hour cleaning Danshui riverfront.
• 1,000TWD for someone to plant 10 flowers in Zhongxiao Fuxing.
• 500TWD to buy 5 healthy meals for the homeless.

Also need to check the legal situation surrounding these mini-projects. Do ZecZec have a project guidelines page? We can also check if we can raise money for salaries and advertising on their portal.

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Questions for first time fundraisers

1. What do you want to do?
2. What do you need?
3. What will you give the city?
4. What is your cost breakdown? Yourself/Materials/Other
5. What is your future funding roadmap?

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What will a Mykra Fundraising Party look like?

• Business cards.
• Wifi.
• Ongoing crowdfunding project.
• Good vegetarian food and WINE.
• 5-10 people.
• Live demonstrations.
• Hopefully someone submits a project in real time.
• Teach people how to fork the codebase.

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Revenue. Monthly support.

People can open source and copy for free, but need to pay 7 bucks a month to access the support forum.

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Tonight with K

Go over fundraising plan and translate a little. Try and get together a short term alpha site. Think hard about UX/functionality and ignore design for now.

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For sending to the three crowdfunding sites:

嗨，

感謝您的回答。

Do you have HTML code like this, to share projects?

你們有小工具來分享眾籌項目嗎？ 就像這裡的小部件一樣。

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/766542489/limitless-merino-wool-shirt-one-shirt-unlimited-po/widget

感謝您的辛勤工作。

最好的祝愿，

Contact Email:

Red Turtle: service@redturtle.cc FlyingV : flyingfive@ontoo.cc ZecZec : support@zeczec.com

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Metal Business Cards

Metal Business Cards

Limited Edition metal business cards.

https://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/wood-business-cards https://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/us-price-list

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Funding Roadmap Google Doc

@kindaPM you can give feedback.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12v52gDA_gA6srfjSeBXB7MPA8zoxk2r0ypBoLLJdSOU/edit#

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ZecZec FAQ

ZecZec Terms of Service

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Three Example Projects. Start small.

100 USD to clean all the rubbish from Danshui one morning. 400TWD 2 hours.

100 USD to plant 10 flowers in Zhongxiao Dunhua or Daan Park.

60 Second Docs, Rainforest

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Questions for Street Interviews

What do you want to see in this area? If you could get money for an business, what would it be?

Questions for Project Leaders

Who are you? What is your passion? What is your mission?

Instructions for Interviewers

Please sign up for Youtube live. Download the list of questions. Find people.

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Log on to Chinese Twitter equivalent.

Keep up to date with China crowdfunding rules.

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TODO: Rename all good Codepens to MYKRAALPHA

Update: 80% done

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Buy domain name.

Update: All domains in price range. Dig out Credit Card.

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Make it competitive. Make it competitive. Make it competitive.

• 50USD prize for essay. Base it loosely on Chinese imperial examinations.
• Can we raise a small prize fund on ZecZec?
• Can the public retroactively fund essays? Needs some rules. 20% for writer? 40 % for a project etc....

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@kindaPM None of those crowdfunding sites got back to me. I guess they will come in time. For now I'm making...

List of crowdfunding sites with project widgets.

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Successes and Problems in the Chinese Imperial System. A flawed meritocracy.

• Since the exams were based on knowledge of the classics and literary style, not technical expertise, successful candidates were generalists who shared a common language and culture, one shared even by those who failed. This common culture helped to unify the empire and the ideal of achievement by merit gave legitimacy to imperial rule, while leaving clear problems resulting from a systemic lack of technical and practical expertise.

• However, the Confucian examination syllabus has also been compared to the humanist education central to contemporary European government service.[1]

• The examination helped to shape China's intellectual, cultural and political life. The increased reliance on the exam system was in part responsible for Tang dynasty shifting from a military aristocracy to a gentry class of scholar-bureaucrats. Starting with the Song dynasty, the system was regularized and developed into a roughly three-tiered ladder from local to provincial to court exams.

• The content was narrowed and fixed on texts of Neo-Confucian orthodoxy. By the Ming dynasty, the highest degree, the jinshi (Chinese: 進士), became essential for highest office. On the other hand, the initial degree, the shengyuan (生員), became vastly oversupplied, resulting in holders who could not hope for office, yet were still granted social privilege. Critics charged that the system stifled creativity and created officials who dared not defy authority, yet the system also continued to promote cultural unity. Wealthy families, especially from the merchant class, could opt into the system by educating their sons or purchasing degrees. In the 19th century, critics blamed the imperial system, and in the process its examinations, for China's lack of technical knowledge and its defeat by foreign powers.

• Although, in a general way, the formative ideas behind the imperial exams can be traced back at least to Zhou dynasty times (or, more mythologically, Yao),[2] such as imperial promotion for displaying skill in archery contests, the imperial examination system in its classical manifestation is historically attested to have been established in 605, during the Sui dynasty; which in the quickly succeeding Tang dynasty was used only on a relatively small scale, especially in its early phase. However, the structure of the examination system was extensively expanded during the reign of Wu Zetian:[3] the impact of Wu's use of the testing system is still a matter for scholarly debate. During the Song dynasty the emperors expanded both examinations and the government school system, in part to counter the influence of military aristocrats, increasing the number of those who passed the exams to more than four to five times that of the Tang. Thus the system played a key role in the selection of the scholar-officials, who formed the elite members of society. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the system contributed to the narrowness of intellectual life and the autocratic power of the emperor. The system continued with some modifications until its 1905 abolition under the Qing dynasty. Other brief interruptions to the system occurred, such as at the beginning of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century. The modern examination system for selecting civil servants also indirectly evolved from the imperial one.[4]

• Tests had a lengthy historical background in Chinese thought, including evaluating the potential of possible people to fill positions through various contests, competitions, or interviews: even as early as the Zhou dynasty promotions might be won through winning archery competitions. Much of the development of the imperial bureaucracy in the Confucian form in which it was known in later times had much of its origin in the Han dynasty rule of Han Wudi (Emperor Wu of Han). Through the Three Kingdoms and the Sui dynasty recruitment would be viewed as basically a bottom-up process: promotions being generally through preferment from the local and lower levels of government up to each successively higher level until recommendations finally might be offered to the emperor himself, in continuation of the Zhou idea that the lower levels of government were responsible for finding recruits for the higher ones.

In the modern sense of an open examination system, the imperial civil service examinations did not take place until the Sui dynasty, when they then began to recognizably take on the form of standardized tests, though under the prerogative of the Emperor. The Tang dynasty saw most of the recruitment into central government bureaucrat offices performed by the bureaucracy itself, at least nominally by the reigning emperor.

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Was there a Taiwanese Exam system?

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@kindaPM None of those crowdfunding sites got back to me. I guess they will come in time. For now I'm making...

List of crowdfunding sites with project widgets.

@Microflow Zeczec & Red turtle have replied to me, they both don't have the kinda widget or HTML code to share projects, I believe FlyinV don't either, or we could find it easily on their projects page... I guess they think that the function of sharing the link of their projects on FB/Line/Twitter is enough.

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Was there a Taiwanese Exam system?

Yes, and Taiwanese Exam system also affected by the Chinese imperial exam system, like the girl you gave advice for her choice to foreign college on LEIT, we were all the victim under the flawed meritocracy, hope the education system will be more like western that focus on technical and practical expertise in the future.

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we were all the victim under the flawed meritocracy, hope the education system will be more like western that focus on technical and practical expertise in the future.`

IMO, we need a mix of East and West. We must be wary of "Grass is Greener". You guys say "The moon shines brighter in other countries"..... From my perspective... positives in Asia are: 1) Focus on engineering and practical qualifications. 2) Hard work. Negatives are 1) Too much rote learning 2) Too much focus on university "rankings."

In the West, many students have humanities degrees. It's hard to get a job with some of those qualifications.

When we test people we will ask them to write a plan solving a problem. The crowd will upvote the best ones, and we will choose from there. I have an idea half formed. We will look at what the Chinese/Taiwanese did well and learn from their mistakes.

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Jordan Peterson. "So you want an accurate test, that doesn't discriminate against anybody, that makes everyone feel good that's dirt cheap and that doesn't take any time at all."

What five questions can we ask to test people?

They need to do a project to prove themselves. What can it be?

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What would you like to see in your town in 1 month, 1year, and 5, 10 and 25 years?

How would you prototype these products with

• 10,000
• 1,000
• and 10 dollars.

?

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@kindaPM We need to start reaching out to people. Getting programmers etc. Should invite some people on Tuesday nights. Programmers and designers etc. What FB groups are good? We need to make a list.

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Laws for Basic Human Respect

A pledge for people to sign

Ascii UI. MYKRA MVP. FRIDAY 19th April 2019.

<> JQuery Slide: Show latest Kickstarter Project.

<> JQuery Slide: Show coming soon.

<> Periscope or Youtube Live street interviews.

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Mykra Nodes

What would it take for you to help one more person set up an experiment?

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List of Hashtags to Run this Business

DearStudents MykraDev MykraCore HKMicrofinance

Set goals for your local area. Monitor with Python

https://www.reddit.com/r/scrapy/comments/711pzo/tutorial_web_scraping_a_crowdfunding_website/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49011726/how-to-web-scrape-the-creator-bio-on-kickstarter-projects-with-python-bs4

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Don't give out equity!!! MR Wonderful's Deal Structures

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-entrepreneurs-decline-Kevin-Olearys-licensing-deal

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The app that builds apps.

What would that look like? We write a spec for an easily prototypable responsive app. SOmething that can be built in 5-10 hours. Teams compete to build one.

For this, we will need a small prize fund.

100USD would be a good start.

We are still gonna build Mykra as the main app, But later I have other apps to build. Will need a small team.

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Holocracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FmKsDf_CnI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJxfJGo-vkI

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Leaders Set Priorities and Metrics

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[LINE share] (https://social-plugins.line.me/en/)

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Taiwan Program Language Reading Club

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1403852566495675/?ref=group_header&view=group

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That's a good one, will add it to the list.

Working on a redesign now...

Some fantastically beautiful photos here:

Pexels Black and White

https://www.pexels.com/search/black%20and%20white/

Pexels White

https://www.pexels.com/search/white/

Pexels Red

https://www.pexels.com/search/red/

Goldfish

https://www.pexels.com/photo/red-betta-fish-1335971/

Match

https://www.pexels.com/photo/red-match-66270/

Pexels Multi

https://www.pexels.com/search/multi/

Codepen

Distortion Effect, 3JS. A little over the top but interesting:

https://codepen.io/kenjiSpecial/pen/BVxxJa

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Patreon Developers

https://www.patreondevelopers.com/t/support-me-on-patreon-button/102/5

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Design TODOS

• Docs
• Successful projects
• CSS Filters to vids
• Chatroom?
• Live videos
• Product Vids and Specs
• Easy to change current vid classes.
• Tracking how much spent so far.

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GoFundMe looks interesting...

https://www.google.com.tw/search?q=gofundme+widget&oq=gofundme+widget&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l4.3759j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

They got widgets. UK based and support causes. Will work well for demos.

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This guy is picking up trash. Awesome

https://www.gofundme.com/trashruns

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GoFundMe Projects are Embedable!!!

https://codepen.io/Teeke/pen/WWaBye

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Widgets

https://codeutopia.net/blog/2012/05/26/best-practices-for-building-embeddable-widgets/

http://blog.jaypinho.com/2015/09/14/creating-embeddable-iframe-widgets/