[nodel-discuss] meeting comments 6th July

[julie freeman]

Hi Saul,

Sorry for the delayed reaction but I went away straight after sending  
that last email.

On 7 Jul 2009, at 14:37, Saul Albert wrote:
> Cool - I think I can volunteer some time and effort into skinning it,
> which I have some experience of, if someone else will design it.
That's great I think Lisa was willing to give help and advice on this  
too.

>
>> It would also be good if the launch coincided with a call to action,
>> to get involved, place a vote, register your interest or something a
>> bit motivating (sorry if this is what you were saying). i.e.
>
> +1
>
>> 	"Bored of the economy? Us too. Let's take the lead with OurCash
>> Node.London's currency. The 2010 Season of Media Arts in London is
>> saying f*ck you to the Bank of England. Sign up here."
>
> I investigated the suitability of OpenCoin for this - and it doesn't
> make sense. Launching an event currency only really works for an  
> event,
> not as a pump-primer for a longer-term investment.
>
> I think the gimmick value may be limited, but effective enough, and  
> will
> mostly depend on how many shops/galleries/drug dealers we can convince
> to accept 'nodes' for the season. Someone also needs to be the bank.
OK so we can wait and assess whether to do it for the season based on  
general feedback perhaps.
>
>> In fact I think there will be two launches - the populating launch
>> getting people involved and then the publicity launch getting people
>> to attend.
>
> Sounds like a call for nodes and a call for peeps. David already wrote
> the call for nodes, which I think is pretty much ready to go out:
> http://wiki.nodel.org/index.php/NODE.London_2010_call_for_nodes
It looks good, will it go out once the site is ready to populate or  
before?

>
>> Designers wise - I've seen a few sites done by these people http://
>> www.jaggeree.com/ they seem super new ( I don't know them ), but it
>> could be an option. They did http://www.rebootbritain.com/ and
>> another, better, young people's conference one but I lost the URL.
>
> They did a great job on rebootbritain - maybe they'd be up for doing
> some usability design/html/css... shall I ask them?
Maybe - I'm not sure who is coordinating this.

Julie