Libre Graphics Community Print Shoppe

[barbarogenius]

Project Lead: Larisa Blazic

Mentor: Chad Sansing

Welcome to OL6, Cohort E! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Leadership Training :tada:.

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Before Week 1 (Sept 13): Your first mentorship call

• [ ] Complete the OLF self-assessment (online, printable). If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
• [ ] Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

Before Week 2 (Sept 20): First Cohort Call (Open by Design)

• [ ] Complete Assignment 'Write Your Vision or Mission Statement'. Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call.
• [ ] Watch 'Mozilla & Working Open'.
• [ ] Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3 (Sept 27): Mentorship call

• [ ] Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement.
• [ ] Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas). Comment on this issue with a link to your canvas.
• [ ] Start your Roadmap. Comment on this issue with your draft Roadmap.

Before Week 4 (Oct 4): Cohort Call (Build for Understanding)

• [ ] Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.
• [ ] Pick an open license for the work you're doing during the program.
• [ ] Use your canvas to start writing a README, or landing page, for your project. Link to your README in a comment on this issue.

This issue is here to help you keep track of work during the first month of the program. Please refer to the OL6 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

[barbarogenius]

Week 2: Draft project vision/mission statement

I’m working with local residents of Haggerston, Dalston and Hoxton interested in digital skill development activities through mutual support to promote Free software and libre graphics culture so that they can diversify local visual communication practice and thrive in the digital age.

I am working F/L/O because it creates foundation for collaboration and chalenges previously held conception of authorship.

[nerantzis]

Very promising project! We should help & support free software and libre graphics culture to grow and -why not - to ....triumph !

[chadsansing]

@barbarogenius, if you'd like feedback on your open canvas and roadmap, please link to them here ahead of our call on 27 September.

[chadsansing]

I really like your explanation of why you've chosen F/L/O in your vision statement, @barbarogenius. I wonder if the first part might be revised to de-jargonify the last half just a bit. What would it mean for a local resident who uses a libre graphics workshop to "diversify local visual communication practice and thrive in the digital age?"

[barbarogenius]

@chadsansing here's the link to the open canvas (it is in progress) https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/opening-your-project/develop-an-open-project-strategy-with-open-canvas/

[barbarogenius]

@chadsansing many thanks for the vision statement feedback - back to the drawing board :-)

[barbarogenius]

@nerantzis thank you for the encouragement! Looking fwd to see how is your project progressing :-)

[chadsansing]

Thank you, @barbarogenius - do you have your own version of this template drafted?

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_eya6vVXpaZOpXFZsZNbVHboROI4IPWy-poCnYTNtnQ/edit#slide=id.p

[barbarogenius]

oops, lets try again: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AjsAEVViWJm-zF4ThFYKZU5ErZOkSPUamV2K6fGv4t8/edit#slide=id.p

[barbarogenius]

Roadmap - 1st draft

Mission and summary:

Libre Graphics Community Print Shoppe is a community owned and run cooperative maker space for digital skill development and Free software based visual communication in Hackney. Its mission is to change homogeneous creative industries culture and diversify range of digital tools for visual communication through a community-led cultural project. A model that can be replicated, using a successful example such as Access Space, Libre Graphics Community Print Shoppe is a self-organised, self-governed creative practice in the tradition of artist-run spaces of London East End and socially embedded art practice.

Milestones:

• Completed business model
• Local needs evidence documentation (interviews, questionnaires, expression of interest sign-ups)
• Established formal community Libre Graphics interest group
• Ready to register co-operative and set-up bank account
• Compiled a list of available spaces in the neighbourhood
• Compiled list of hardware, tools and furniture
• Comprehensive expenditure documentation
• Funding applications for Culture Seeds GLA Grant and Local Trust Creative Civic Change programme application, crowd-sourcing campaign ready (Spacehive, crowdfunder and gofundme)

List of tasks:

• Knowledge exchange (Access Space, HCD, P2P Foundation, Furtherfield, Gini Simpson)
• Build local needs evidence documentation (interviews, questionnaires, expression of interest sign-ups)
• Investigate interest and establish partnerships for long-term life of the space (co-founders, participants, funders, sponsorships, space)
• Complete business model
• Ready to register co-operative and set-up bank account
    ◦ Compile a list of available spaces in the neighbourhood
    ◦ Compile list of hardware, tools and furniture
    ◦ Comprehensive expenditure documentation
• Funding applications for Culture Seeds GLA Grant and Local Trust Creative Civic Change programme application, crowd-sourcing campaign ready (Spacehive, crowdfunder and gofundme) for the next stage of development

How can get involved:

LGM website blog Twitter/Mastodon talks/presentations@local design festivals Instagram MozFest LB Hackney events Direct conversation with local residents and communities

[chadsansing]

The canvas really speaks to me, @barbarogenius. I think the next few cohort calls will be of use to you, especially in further sharpening the value propositions. In the meantime, I wonder if there is a minimum viable kit or suite of tech people need to get started (I am thinking of the cost and space/safety differences between a computer and printer and laser cutter) and whether or not contributors will have a similar variety of channels to users. Nice job!

[chadsansing]

This roadmap seem clear and well-sequenced to me, as well, @barbarogenius. Here I wonder about how contributors can get involved in the very early stages, about how our upcoming calls about interactions and exchanges might be of use to you, and about how/when you plan to develop the experiences/programming and certificate that will attract users to the location. It looks like there are many steps here for the set up of the space; I wonder also about the "set up" or the "getting-ready-for" of the audience.

[fraguada]

@barbarogenius FYI seems the open canvas isn't open and is telling me to request access.

[seandiggity]

Absolutely wonderful to see a Free / Libre Software project like this, which will create a community space as well. At MakeHaven in New Haven, Connecticut we've had a lot of success with Inkscape and laser cutting... it's a very low-barrier activity that's a lot of fun for new members (e.g. you can burn patterns from an SVG graphic into wooden coasters for gifts).

[barbarogenius]

@fraguada thanks for heads up - hope it's fixed now

[barbarogenius]

@seandiggity thanks for the comment - this is useful info!