[esocialaction] Re: update - NEST doesn't want portfolio proposals

[Paula Graham]

couldn't we draw them together coherently under the umbrella of
exploring the transmission (or not) of FLOSS methodologies/discourse to
diverse cultural contexts/productive modes in a sustainable way?

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Soenke Zehle [c] wrote:

> that's all the info I got from people who went to the info-meeting;
> which makes me think that NEST may not be it but rather one of the
> other proposals, which we should reconsider in this light, perhaps.
>
> My concern is that the workprojects as we have (however provisionally)
> sketched them are fairly far apart at the moment and I am not sure we
> can develop them as derivations/elaborations of a
> novel-yet-common-to-all-contributors theme/approach (which is what
> NEST seems to be about) in a convincing way, not in 2 weeks or so.
>
> I mention this b/c I think that we have to discuss this soon and maybe
> identify an alternative grant process (which might also give us more
> time) before we run with the portfolio approach; or does anyone see a
> way of redefining all of the proposed projects in terms of what Andy
> has called workpackages of a shared approach/agenda?
>
> Soenke
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