[ELECTRON] Farmhouse - Preparing The Path - Event 7th Feb

[Bob Hamilton]

Common Good Awareness Project

Will be having a few meetups at the Electron around this project. Will
eventually be running workshops on off-grid living, solar power,
engineering, green building, gardening, as well as a pile of on line
activity. Part of the project is about avoiding reinventing the wheel,
and repeat work, but using work folk have already done or are in the
process of developing. We have joined with partners doing film making,
radio, bikes, craft work, research, building networks. There is scope
for an endless list of activities.  If the interest is there, be good
see a collaboration group within the Electron Club. See website for
project details and you are welcome at the next meetup on the 7th. Lets
make technology work for us. Ch Bob

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After a well attended “Farmhouse Town Hall” meeting the general feeling
was to start looking at doing some concrete activities. So here is

Preparing The Path Event
, Community Garden visit 11:00  Plantation
lunch and discussion 1:00

Preparing the path, meet-up will consist of a  garden visit to look at
building, a local walk and talk. Then. Next step conversations at
Plantation Productions meeting space.

So we will take a look at the physical space of the site, make some
notes then think about a strategy for proceeding and formulate some
ideas to get going.

For instance

We need a team in to clear space to set up a container workshop; to be
kitted out as a learning pod, in which an organised program of
activities could be put together.

So we need to put a shipping container in garden to function as a work
space, meeting space and fit it with tools and equipment to suit a
variety of activities. A place where groups and individuals could, meet,
do workshops, and learn about a whole bunch of things.

Set up cargo bike, from (Free Wheel North) as traveling information
centre, we can take to schools, events, groups, etc.

Set up Local building group – to connect with other projects. Organise
workshops in basic building skills

Start off our Participatory Action Research project and media group.
Make programs and updates for Sunny Govan Radio.

Look at the “Well Said” project at plantation who will be filming
Farmhouse activities and training people up in media skills.

Putting together presentations to further education departments for
student field work to support different aspects of the project.

A schools Common Good Fund information pack to engage children in
understanding what the commons is.

These are a few of the ideas we could talk about but it is important
that folk feel that they can contribute their own ideas. What will be
important is, how we will proceed to do things in the right order and
how we go about building capacity for the tasks at hand.

We look forward to seeing you. Bob. Project Development Team

Website:
commgood.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/preparing-the-path-event-7th-feb