ATTENDEES
Chris Boshuisen, Jim Burke, Lin Burke, Jessy Cowan-Sharp, John Cumbers, Matt Daniels, Vince Gabrielsen, Jerry Glenn (via Skype), Jack Gottsman, Salim Ismail, Chris Kemp, Creon Levit, Will Marshall, Wes Mateo, Josh McKenty, Andre Nilsen, Malte Nuhn, Shawna Pandya, Robbie Schingler, John Smart, Kathleen Starmer, Robert Starmer, Yuki Takiashi, Claudia Weiss, Pete Worden
ACTIONS
1. Create mailing list for Project of 4D creation [googlegroup will]
2. Founding documents
a. Mission statement
b. Values
c. Recruitment plan
d. How/if we decide on a set of goals
e. Decision tool
f. Regional nodes?
3. Revision of tools
4. Organise a follow on meeting in <3 months
5. Have monthly salons/co-working session (in DC + CA + London)
6. Process for initial projects
NOTES
Saturday 10th April 2010 – Goal Day
Registration
Session I: Introduction to 4D – its goals, purpose and strategy
1. Introductions
2. Why a Network? Mission, strategy, objectives – Will Marshall
3. Overview of what tools we have and why – Chris Boshuizen
4. Overview of physical locations – Jessy Cowan
5. Overview of partnerships – Will Marshall
· Attendees introduced themselves
· Introduction slides (for all presenters) available from Will: just email will@4dnetwork.org
· Discussion:
· Discussed why institutional reform has been successful focus area of networks in the past, in particular discussing the Pugwash case.
· Pete: great idea, but don’t create a religion – make sure that there are no ‘bishops’ – have it meritocratic, not autocratic
Session II: Developing the 4D Network Goals
1. Goal structure – Andre Nilsen
2. Mechanism of deriving a goal structure and Strategy
a. Principles
b. Differentiating between types of disagreement
3. Example goal generation and analysis
a. Add goals and linking
· Discussed Andre’s presentation
· Started implementing goals in goal tree – difficulties of server crashing
· Andre: we want a system that is academically rigorous, not something that is based on the most votes. Many issues with the goal tree system in place: it assumes that what emerges from some kind of voting is the optimal; it assumes links can be quantified. I fundamentally disagree that the goal system should be based on votes: that is dangerous. Many NGOs out there pick projects that may on the surface seem like good ideas, and the people have the best intentions in the world, but often they can cancel out with someother NGO’s project or even worse can harm the meta strategy since the people haven’t thought it through. Thus goal selection prioritization for 4D should be based on expert groups.
· Chris: but something powerful may emerge from the filling in of goals and links from lots of people
· Jessy: we want to have a peer-reviewed system of reviewing goals. These are people who are driven and who want to do something to help, and think what they are doing good.
· Matt: we are all doing a lot of things already – can’t expect to take on more side projects. So 4D should help people with their existing projects only perhaps?
· Claudia: get goal lists from other efforts like MP – don’t re-invent the wheel
· Shawna: Don’t come across as elitest
· Will: a minimal system might be just some kind of committee to check that each project or goal of the network is consistent with the meta strategy (has +ve not –ve effect on it)
· Robbie: I have specific proposal for a process to identify and downselect projects using both experts and impartial judges à see googledoc
· Jim: may also take decadal survey process as a viable process to adopt
· Will: good idea
Lunch
Session II: cont.
b. Clustering of Goals – Creon Levit
· Prior network problems prevented this
Break
Session IV: Top Project Priority Analysis
Projects selection criteria for 4D network:
Will: initial thoughts:
(1) strategic advantage: that could not be done by any one of us but can collectively;
(2) Are they global, long term, rational objective
(3) realisable in a short timeframe <3 months
(4) that take perhaps only a few hours action each
Group:
(1) Does it fit the overall 4D Network vision of security, justice, welfare
(2) Strategic advantage: that could not be done by any one of us but can collectively;
(3) Are they global, long term, rational, objective
(4) Realizable in a short timeframe <3 months (for initial projects, to build momentum – longer term ons later)
(5) That take perhaps only a few hours per person action each
(6) Clear/measurable outcome
(7) Systemic/institutional
Initial brainstormed projhects that meet all criteria:
(1) Design a lunar governance system
(2) Come up with a wellness index for people (a better HDI)
(3) Influence new supreme court justice to replace Stephens
(4) Get a Tobin Tax proposal and identified gov targets
(5) Come up with a strategy for how Open Gov initiatives fit into positive global development (meta strategy)
(6) Design a education prog that teaches creativity instead of specific content
(7) Fiscal reporting system for Gov – income/outflows of gov
(8) Exciting people abut role of space in their positive future
(9) Stop illegal Israeli settlements in Jeruselum
Sunday 11th April 2010 – Collaboration Day
Brunch
Session V: 4D Tools
1. Project analysis tool
· Jessy: have ability to change factors
· Jerry: have recursion
· Malte: How does this fit in with 4D? Need to add in feedback from others?
· John: Assess your priorities using another tool. Assess your values using other tools (e.g. strengthfinders) [Try ‘getting things done’]. Put up uservoice on LHS for suggestions
· Jessy: Add Timeliness factor. Add Happiness factor. Work flow more of a decision tree – once entred a project, either ‘submit it’ or ‘add more detail’ ‘do it’. Add subgroups of projects
· Shawna: Should I continue the project?
· Andre: these numbers seem very arbitrary! How is one meant to judge this.
OUTPUT: Personal Priorities
2. Notesharing
Session VI: Side Projects
OUTPUT: Familiarity with each others side projects
Yuki:
Main project: understanding the big bang
Desired next project: building spacecraft
Side projects:
1. Innovations to society – working with colleagues in Nigeria to sell solar powered LED
2. School children: environmentally conscious leaders
Claudia:
Main project: synergy project
Side projects:
- How do we design the design process for collaboration
Chris:
Main project: give computing resources to employees at NASA
Side projects:
- LCROSS site for imagery
- Put mars data on web using WWT
How can 4D people help you?
- Don’t go buy a server, use nebula
- Let people know the vision that computer storge and computing can be almost free – sharing makes it cheaper
Robert:
Main project:
Side projects:
- Change the way people travel – electric vehicles is one path. How can we leverage a hydrogen economy. For this we need hydrogen driven planes.
- Automating day trading to pay for it
How can 4D people help you?
1. Providing input into getting company off the ground
Kathleen:
Main project:
Side projects:
- General health of humanity (e.g. malaria) etc but what about our individual health
- Writing a book called ‘Take back your back’
- Website on how to do your crazy trip?
How can 4D people help you?
- Connections to publishers
Jack:
Main project:
Side projects:
- Create a learning environment
How can 4D people help you?
Nhu Ann:
Main project:
Side projects:
- Girls for change
How can 4D people help you?
Vince:
Main project:
Side projects:
- Finish 4D site feedback loop
How can 4D people help you?
Shawna:
Main project: mobile phone apps for emergency response
Side projects:
- Workshops on motivational speaking
- Space without borders – leveraging space technologies to help development – e.g.. increasing access to geospatial data
How can 4D people help you?
- Help finding an office
Chris:
Main project: space exploration
Side projects:
- 4D
- Mission forge
How can people help?
- Help me to write tools that people would want to use
Malte:
Main project: Linked In
Side projects:
- Trying to make sure project tools are useful for people
How can people help?
- Just provide input
Andre:
Main project: Analyse the state of the world
Main project: Draw up a normative principled vision of how
Main project: Develop a strategy (probably institutional form to implement this)
Side projects:
How can people help?
- Challenging each other
Will:
Main project: LCROSS – lunar water
Side projects:
- NASA
- STM
- Lunar settlement
- Lunar governance
- NEOsat
4D
How can people help?
- Push lunar settlement as the goal
- Do notesharing
- Awareness about the debris problem
Jim:
Main project: Analyse the state of the world
Side projects:
- ISU graduate education – to achieve a cadre of spacers
- Planetary society education programmes (down to primary school)
- Humanities are more important than STEM
How can people help?
- Go do ISU!
- Volunteer to help teachers and children in schools
Apply additional criteria
- Pick projects that have momentum/funding etc
- Pick projects that have the potential for
- Pick projects that don’t require a change in people’s fundamental thinking
Lin:
Main project: Analyse the state of the world
Side projects:
- Music can help with the brain
How can people help?
Creon:
Main project:
Side projects:
- Applying breakthrough science to space technology
- Scientific visualisation
How can people help?
- Send any fringe science that is game changing even if low probability, send to me
Robbie:
Main project: Open Government (like corporate social responsibility for government)
Main project: Help NASA successfully make its vision of the new budget
Side projects:
- Local 4D embassy
- Web app
How can people help?
Jessy:
Main project: Open Government, on tool building
Upcoming main project: CS PhD
Side projects:
- DC embassy
How can people help?
- Go use our place in Costa Rica
- DC embassy: financial or business planning advice
Break
Session VII: Next Steps
1. Goal Governance
2. Nodes
3. Recruitment
4. Fundraising
5. Partnerships
OUTPUT: Some practicle ideas for going forward
Member attributes
1. Driven to actually improve the world
2. Globally focused
3. Come as individuals
4. Cooperative vs. individualistic (see SunLight’s ‘no jerks’)
5. Action oriented
6. Papers: people should be thorough but also not only academic
7. Learning community/people should have a commitment being in a sense and respond mode (can adapt to new data)
Mechanisms
1. Invitation
a. Word of mouth
b. As a side effect of stay at hostel
c. By organizational affiliation
2. Advertising X
3. Viral
4. 4D events Co-located (but not competing with) other events (e.g. YN)
5. Regional meet ups
6. Through publically released tools
7. Through groups on other social networks
Selection
1. None
2. Referral (+ review)
3. Questionnaire/application
4. Rules which if broken one can be removed
5. Open but some closed groups?
Incentives to join
1. You will achieve more with the network than without
2. Testimonial section
3. Access to individuals
Incentives to contribute
Session VIII: Creon Tools
Presentation available from creon.levit@nasa.gov