Attend Nonprofit Development Summit 2014

[mitar]

• https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit14
• in Oakland
• 17-19 November 2014

[ciaobrian]

Oops! I forgot to mention this in the weekly report!

[mitar]

Add it to the agenda for today's meeting then.

(Feel free to add to the agenda anything from the report you think we should discuss in person. You can do that every time, even if you will be attending the meeting.)

[ciaobrian]

Ok added a couple things I thought could be important.

[mitar]

Apply and the rest.

[mitar]

So who is going to this? They get lunch for all registrants and need to have an accurate head count. So really only those who are going should apply. Tell me (write here) and I will send you the registration link.

[mitar]

@sylvanarevalo, you said you would like to go? @raaswol? Anyone else?

[raaswol]

Is going, need a dev too.

[raaswol]

We have been there the past two days and will be attending today as well. Sylvan = 8hrs monday, 11 hours Tuesday. Rachel = 6.5 hrs Monday, 10.5 hrs Tuesday (left for a meeting 2:30, stayed later at the bar). Without after-hours dinner Sylvan = 8 hrs Tuesday, Rachel = 7hrs, but that was networking and learning time as well. +0.5hrs each in review. TOTAL Rachel = 17.5 hrs, Sylvan = 19.5hrs as of Tuesday night.

[raaswol]

http://pad.peerlibrary.org/p/NonprofitDevSummit-FundersMoreEffective http://pad.peerlibrary.org/p/NonprofitDevSummit-ToolsForAsynchronousCollab http://pad.peerlibrary.org/p/NonprofitDevSummit-TheoryOfChange

[mitar]

You should share those pads with NonprofitDevSummit. Tweet them!

[raaswol]

I will, after this session//when i get a chance

[mitar]

I can help you, if you are not familiar with Twitter. You have to find out which hashtag has been used for the summit.

[raaswol]

I have to set up an account. I posted to fb for now...don't use the other one it has personal notes and is only a few lines long

[mitar]

You can use PeerLibrary account. No need for the personal one if you are not using it otherwise.

[raaswol]

oh ya, you gave me that sing in stuff a few days ago, i'll use it.

[mitar]

Yes. It is useful to tweet such things during events and tag them with event's hashtag because then people see us and start following us.

[raaswol]

recommended site to look at and learn from, open source https://www.documentcloud.org/home

[raaswol]

http://pad.peerlibrary.org/p/NonprofitDevSummit-LinksOfInterest

[mitar]

recommended site to look at and learn from, open source https://www.documentcloud.org/home

Yes. It is a great site. But old technology. So PDFs rendered as images and annotations made as rectangles. Also not very easy to navigate. And public instance is only for news rooms.

But yes, a positive example.

[raaswol]

Just making sure we know about it :-) @sylvanarevalo put links to your notes up here :-)

[raaswol]

Rachel Total Hours @ Dev Summit: 27hrs Sylvan Total Hours @ Dev Summit: 29hrs

[mitar]

Yes, and I am just making sure to explain how my current evaluation of the project is. Here we have a long long list of related projects. We should go over it and analyze each of them and write a short report.

[raaswol]

great, i'll put it on my todo list &/or delegate it

[mitar]

Maybe we should do it systematically. Each week each of us checking one project or something.

[raaswol]

Great idea, but I don't want to distract everyone else.

[raaswol]

1 hour spent on dashboard and report.

[raaswol]

Every morning started with opening circle. The first day was a review of intention, conduct, a welcoming, and there was an introductions session. On the second and third day we would go around and say something- introduce ourselves, or say something we like about the rain. Here is the agenda from that day: http://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=2014_Agenda

A spectrogram is an activity. A facilitator draws a line down the middle of the room. Participants list and announce various controversial statements, which are each in turn responded to by individuals placing themselves on the line as if it were a spectrum of agreement or disagreement. Then, the facilitator goes around the room asking various people at dispersive points around the line why they placed themselves there. It’s a wonderful exercise to flush out the fine points of any social or ethical riddle. http://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=Controversial_Statements

Speed-geeking is when various presenters spend a very short amount of time- three minutes perhaps, to explain and discuss a topic or organization. I presented PeerLibrary, its various access levels, privacy choices for individual users, basic mechanisms, groups, collections and volunteer engine. I let people know we’re actively seeking funding.

Much of the conference was broken down into breakout sessions. Individual speakers/facilitators hold space for groups of people to discuss a topic or tackle an issue. The sessions I attended were: Financial market awareness in creating tools social change - Bryan, Best practices and tools for asymmetrical (or asynchronous) collaboration, Checklist for Funders, City Planning 101, Tech and theory of change Technology solutions in the prison industrial complex , Why plenarys and panels suck

There was plenty of time to have open discussion and get to know people. There was a small-group introduction sessions on the first day- where each of three people in a group shouldn’t know each other at all. That was really fun. I got into a few really good conversations during lunches, met new people and got to explore aspects of this sector and these initiatives that I haven’t gotten to talk about with seasoned adults of so many various perspectives. I really felt comfortable, sympatico there- where everyone wishes to do good in the world, through technology and business, those impartial tools.

[raaswol]

Soon to come: links of interest and reports on contact responses

[mitar]

You should update our events wiki that you attended this.

[raaswol]

I've contacted a few people, still want to write links of interest.

[raaswol]

That took 1.5hrs so far.