
Every being has a role in Nature. And the role of the human is caretaker.
To care for our world we must build meaningful relationships that allow us to exchange ideas, goods, services, and energy for mutual benefit, just like nature does.
Nurturing each other is at the core of achieving a shift in our society, one that helps us express our support for each unique part of this world.
We are waking up to the task of a deeper way of living together, of embodying this thing we call symbiosis.
We are recognizing that nature is our mirror and teacher and in nature’s image we can create a more abundant world.

We are waking up to the task of a deeper way of living together, of embodying this thing we call symbiosis.
We are recognizing that nature is our mirror and teacher and in nature’s image we can create a more abundant world.
To get ourselves closer to nature’s model we can learn from the soil, its microbes and plants, and mycelia, the living platform that makes possible these virtuous circles of communications and exchange.
To get ourselves closer to nature’s model we can learn from the soil, its microbes and plants, and mycelia, the living platform that makes possible these virtuous circles of communications and exchange.
Mycelia.Earth is a partnership model that uses the patterns of nature to weave together a new web of internet life so that farmers, families and communities can rebuild the world according to each other’s needs without data-mining, without privacy compromises – a model that creates a user-focused, localized internet architecture that values real-time connectivity over user data to be scraped and sold.
Mycelia is a web of community designed to empower its members through a regenerative lens. By partnering with technologists and permaculture leaders, Mycelia is a flow for getting from inspiration to action, from ideas to movement.
The vision of mycelia is to cultivate a grassroots system that provides us all with the space to branch and fuse as appropriate.
For each individual and for all their communities, Mycelia offers paths to grow, to re-wild, regenerate, to realign with our local needs and our global desires for healthier, fuller lives.
The vision of mycelia is to cultivate a grassroots system that provides us all with the space to branch and fuse as appropriate.
For each individual and for all their communities, Mycelia offers paths to grow, to re-wild, regenerate, to realign with our local needs and our global desires for healthier, fuller lives.
Update: July 1, 2020 – The inspiration and guiding principles of mycelia along with a demo of the app are presented via video to a visionary squad of regenerative elders, activists, technologists, and thinkers.
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Tibet Sprague11:10Tibet here in Berkeley, CA
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Clare Politano12:13Hey Christian, thanks for joining us!
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Mariette Papic12:41yay Boulder!
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caroroszell13:14Caro here from Wendell Mass
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michael kilpatrick13:21hey Everyone!
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Christian Shearer – Regen Network13:50Record this?
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caroroszell14:08Looks like it’s recording
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Tibet Sprague14:11We are recording!
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Christian Shearer – Regen Network14:15perfect!
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Mark Wagnon17:46The hidden variables of the invisible structures
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)18:51Stewardship
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Mariette Papic19:39+ invisible structures
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective23:14+ eco corps!
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Mark Wagnon29:12Multi-dimensional Maps
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Kris Nichols30:59Sorry I have to leave but would like to continue to participate in the future and hope to view the recording.
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Mariette Papic31:21Thanks Kris!
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association31:46Thanks Kris reach out
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lisa.stokke@protonmail.com33:59Amazing!!!!
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Ferananda – Commons Engine34:35Beautiful design principles!!
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Mark Wagnon34:40Beauty, Truth, Love what a beautiful synergy based on the patterns of Nature
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective34:56Thanks Ferananda!
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Jill Clapperton35:04wonderful t
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Jill Clapperton35:16Wonderful!
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Mark Wagnon35:46Commons Engine, YAY!
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Ferananda – Commons Engine36:26Aw thank you Mark. (warm heart)
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective36:55https://www.terran.io/
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Mark Wagnon37:15I’ve got to step out for 30 minutes… I’m glad this is recorded!
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Mariette Papic37:32Bye Mark!
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Susan Clark38:18There is a start-up fed funded Americorps program at UC Berkeley focusing on regenerative agriculture.
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caroroszell44:14It is!
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Caro Roszell, NOFA/Mass50:40Knowing first hand how much work it is to create facebook events, instagram posts, and other outreach instances for NOFA/Mass, will there be an easy way to create something in one of the Big Evil Social Media Platforms and ‘push’ it to Mycelia in order to make things more efficient for our outreach staff?
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neha sharma51:09That’s an interesting idea that we’d love to discuss more with you, Caro.
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neha sharma52:02On one hand we are trying to stay away from the B.E.S.M.P. (Big Evil Social Media Platforms), and on the other hand we completely empathize with the efficiency you are desiring.
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)52:24Love that idea Caro, we want to integrate with as many platforms as possible, though that often depends on what those platforms allow us to do. Really we want to help move us all to an ecosystem of open source, value aligned platforms and tools
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Matthew Adams52:38Or could we build events etc in mycelia and push it out to facebook, Instagram, etc formats
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)52:54+1
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neha sharma53:03If we can find a way to make that happen without “giving” B.E.S.M.P.’s data we don’t want them to “have” — without compromising our Design Principles of data sovereignty & transparency.
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Mariette Papic53:07+1 to that level of interoperability
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Caro Roszell, NOFA/Mass53:13Seems like it would be an important bridge stage to help get buy in and participation in the early stage.
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Caro Roszell, NOFA/Mass53:22*bridge step
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Milton Dixon53:39Well, I’d like to play.
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Elizabeth Joseph53:53Agree with Caro on that point/idea
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David Rose54:04JustOne Organics is ALL IN
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neha sharma54:09everyone is invited 🙂
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Gabe Youtsey54:46What kids of integrations to you envision between Mycelia and OpenTEAM, FarmOS in the early days?
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Mariette Papic55:14Yay JustOne Organics!!
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David Rose55:23🙂
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Milton Dixon55:43I have to leave in 2 minutes.
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neha sharma55:51https://jamboard.google.com/d/19zT3e44OsRnvbdnR6TACL0wp2xHgzq6CekkzTadCPhM/edit?usp=sharing
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)55:56@gabe, we haven’t started those conversations in depth yet but we are excited to! We definitely want to import all kinds of existing map layers/data
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Gabe Youtsey56:24Looks like the jam board is view only
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Milton Dixon56:33How do I give it a try?
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Mariette Papic56:38Yes Gabe, this is the time for laying out that strategy of integrations!
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krismccue56:57FB has groups and pages – Hylo has “community” – is that interactive where community members can post as opposed to the FB page format?
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective57:10Gabe great question, we are looking forward to being in conversation with OpenTeam & FarmOS to weave in those data sources into community maps in Hylo
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Christian Shearer – Regen Network57:59Jam board is view only.
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neha sharma58:08Try refreshing the link
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Christian Shearer – Regen Network58:27that worked!
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neha sharma58:49Here is the link again: https://jamboard.google.com/d/19zT3e44OsRnvbdnR6TACL0wp2xHgzq6CekkzTadCPhM/edit?usp=sharing
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Carol Curtis59:15Perhaps Soil 4 Climate would be interested in collaborating?? Hoping…
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Ferananda – Commons Engine59:42I need to live for a previous engagement. It has been so great to see the Mycelia project come to life!
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:00:04Thanks for all your support Ferananda!
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association01:00:07others want to post here?
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neha sharma01:00:31@Carol, we’d love to.
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Sallie Calhoun01:00:34What about connecting with a network of other farmers, rather than the public?
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neha sharma01:01:05@Sallie, yes, that’s possible. You can decide whether or not a Community and Post is “Public”
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Zach Elfers01:01:06Will there be any interfacing with potential public lands foraging or other gleaning opportunities? I’m imagining something like iNaturalist but for fruit and nut trees…
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:01:13great points Greg, thank you!
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Mariette Papic01:01:22We are very interested at BFA in engaging as many farm groups as possible. Similar to the way we are partnering with others for Real Food Campaign.
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Dorn Cox01:01:29Dorn from OpenTEAM here. I have to jump off shortly, but I am excited to see intersections emerge across our many shared communities of practice and technical ecosystems, but also hubs and associated networks that bridge diverse scales, production systems and local cultures. Looking forward to exploring the many points of intersection as we move forward. I see this converstion being a key piece of the puzzle for our digital coffee shop that could link to shared registries. P2P connection being organized by the commnities that are self organized.
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Karl, Soil4Climate01:01:32Hi Carol and all, We’d be happy to share this concept with Soil4Climate FB group members, to help grow interest in this concept.
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neha sharma01:01:58Yes, @Zach, we are actually working with the Planetary Health Alliance out of Harvard and they have some previous iNaturalist folks on their team 🙂
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Mariette Papic01:02:00+1 to the Digital Coffee shop intersection
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Zach Elfers01:02:29+1 to the Planetary Health Alliance collab, would love to chat about this more privately
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krismccue01:03:09Will there be a video/live video aspect to it like FB Live?
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lisa.stokke@protonmail.com01:03:11Next 7 is excited about a potential mapping feature for our members to engage more fully with data gather and citizen science with the lab.
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:03:37@krismccue that is definitely on our roadmap, its pretty easy to integrate with Jitsi for video chat
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Sam Grant01:04:10This is AMAZING! I look forward to engaging with this for community science organizing for local climate solutions in Minnesota and West Africa
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Susan Clark01:04:51A start-up network of regenerative agriculture researchers and pioneering practitioners is in formation – RAN – Regenerative Agriculture Network. Would they be a candidate for using Mycelia?
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Dorn Cox01:05:01+1 for Matrix and/or Jitsi chat
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Caro Roszell, NOFA/Mass01:05:04That’s a really smart idea
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:05:15@susan yes definitely!
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:05:53Hylo does currently have Direct Messaging/chat functionality too
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:06:01With individuals and groups
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Susan Clark01:06:07SoilCentric is a public facing site on regenerative agriculture
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Paula Westmoreland01:06:19the platform is also a tool for mutual aid and activist organizing
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:06:47+1 Paula, we are very excited for the ways this can be used for mutual aid, sharing requests and offers and finding each other locally
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krismccue01:07:02Will Mycelia have a search engine feature to replace Google?
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Viktor Zaunders01:07:18would love to see connections with the Regenerative Communities Network from Capital Institute. Lots of value overlap
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neha sharma01:07:31There is already a search function, and we hope to be the Google of Regenerative Projects, if you will 🙂
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John Kempf01:07:34is it possible to have focused discussion forums within communities?
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Judith D. Schwartz01:07:41Regarding the search engine, how about integrating with Ecosia?
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:07:46Terran is already a partner with RCN and holding the Bay Area bioregion 🙂
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Viktor Zaunders01:08:05nice @Tibet 🙂
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Ellen Best01:08:07Is there admin oversight for off topic info?
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:08:07We do have the ability to search across all the content in Hylo already, but I dont think we will be replacing Google anytime soon 🙂
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Nate Kleinman – Experimental Farm Network01:08:21I’m excited about exploring moving Experimental Farm Network onto this platform. We’re not satisfied with our existing website and this has a lot of functionality we could use to help facilitate collaboration on plant breeding and agroecology research. Thanks for the invite.
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christina bowen01:08:37What is the difference or touchpoints between Hylo/ Mycelia?
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:08:37@Ellen admins can delete posts and block users yes. And they have some control over what topics are used, but not total control
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Greg Austic01:08:38FACEBOOKS (blamo)
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neha sharma01:09:10@Nate, so happy to hear. We’d love to support you in this
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Sam Grant01:10:38+++++++++++!!!!!! yes!
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Christian Shearer – Regen Network01:10:44Thanks Terran/Hylo team. This is a really helpful. I think there are many ways that this would be useful to the communities we engage with at Regen Network, including OpenTEAM and 1000 Landscapes.
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:10:58@Christina Mycelia is a network and vision for the future that is using Hylo as the tech platform and partnering with us to build out the mapping features and more. We are still figuring out how to tell the story well.
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neha sharma01:12:01“We need to have away to clearly share information without getting too chaotic.” – John K
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christina bowen01:12:17Thanks tibet! That’s helpful
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Christian Shearer – Regen Network01:12:56A layer that I would love for our team to be a part of contributing in the long run is the production of low-cost, highly accessible verification methodologies for farming practices and outcomes, so that a map member may check their property against that methodology and then choose to show the outcome of that verification process.
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Sam Grant01:13:04I look forward to more – gotta go – I will follow up with specific idea here in MN
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claudia meglin01:13:05How can we make other forms of wealth visible that are exciting within a network?
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:13:06@christian yess!
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Brett KenCairn01:13:51I’m struck by John K’s comment. I think just as part of this platform’s innovation is the adding of a mapping function for human activity, we need a mapping function for human knowledge
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AJR01:13:51Thanks so much for the response, that was very helpful and sounds great, I have to go but I am eager to hear the remainder of the conversation. I would love to be able to see the recording of this meeting after the fact if that is possible. Best of luck on the endeavor, and I look forward to your seeing your growth.
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:14:08Thanks AJR!
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Mariette Papic01:14:52Yes Brett, we have been talking about that question of knowledge repositories and looking at knowledge as a type of resource Damn meant for everyone
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Franklin Egan (Pasa Sustainable Ag)01:15:15Tibet mentioned grants….in the mid to long term, how does this work get sustained?
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:15:17yes @claudia, we want to map all kinds of resources, incorporating a multi-capital perspective
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Gabe Youtsey01:16:03What do you all need to help grow and build on the good work you are doing?
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David Rose01:16:05How do we access the team with ideas, questions, needs, requests and support??? after this call? THANKS SO MUCH THIS IS WATERSHED GOOD STUFF
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claudia meglin01:16:40Is there a Hylo group to capture all our thoughts, ideas and feedbacks?
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neha sharma01:16:41thank you @Greg that was so generous
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Mariette Papic01:16:42David we will invite you all to the Hylo community for Mycelia.Earth
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Mariette Papic01:16:46:))
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:16:52@Franklin I can speak to that more but the plan is for Hylo to stay free to use. The business plan we will implement is to take a cut of financial transactions that happen on Hylo which will include event tickets, crowdfunding donations, community membership subscription fees, marketplace purchases… anytime money flows across the platform we will take a small cut
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David Rose01:16:58We need supply chain software to allow farmers to collaborate in Illinois and other parts of the country soon : )))))))
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Mariette Papic01:17:45Noted 🙂
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kisstheground01:17:46Are you looking to have paid memberships for org or individuals? Or is the model free to join?
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David Rose01:17:46How do we begin to collaborate??? From Claudia’s question: one way is to find specific tasks to focus on within this collective and get those done… build out and up and down and sideways from there
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Daymaker01:17:53What is the proposed phase 1, phase 2, phase 3 rollout which is already laid out in a foundational wireframe? What options are inclusive thus far? Similar to mass scale protocol research there are platforms that allow you to track and trace all of the variabilities. Would love to see the foundational platform which exist at this point. In addition when people speak of regenerative farming and sequestering carbon, are they including the off site farm inputs and all the carbon created to bring those off farm inputs to the farm? Plus the carbon foot print of the raw materials of manufacturing those off farm inputs? Just curious…
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Franklin Egan (Pasa Sustainable Ag)01:18:08Thanks, that makes sense.
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:18:13There is a Hylo group called Building Hylo to continue these conversations! You can join here: https://www.hylo.com/c/building-hylo/join/RcDe6vcG7u
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Milton Dixon01:18:57Sorry, I missed a bit. How do I jam on the board? I’m view only.
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neha sharma01:19:06@Milton try refreshing the link
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Milton Dixon01:19:17Sweeet
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Kelly Erhart – Terran Collective01:20:11@kisstheground Hylo is, and will always, remain free for all to use! We’re exploring the idea of “premium” features in the future for those who’d like paid membership. Hylo.com
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:20:34Our public (short term) roadmap here: https://airtable.com/shraN09ZmVm5jMSOB/tbltCokhsFk9Z8GJs/viwukIIUHKrv6KKQO
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:20:48You can submit requests here: https://airtable.com/shrAWV0UkgDoM55TW
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Carol Curtis01:20:54Thanks Dan and everyone!! The vision is strong!!!
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Greg Austic01:21:56@daymaker @davidrose If you’re looking for similar concepts and opportunities in the larger supply chain, management, verification concepts of ag, connect with OpenTEAM – either dorn or through the forum.goatech.org
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Daymaker01:22:14Instead of ads, just offer a resource directory which can be sponsored. Nothing devaluing in that.
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David Rose01:22:35biz model suggestion: BUILD APPS FOR COMPANIES AND BIOLOGICAL NON PROFITS DOING LOTS OF WORK WITH THEM AND RECEIVE ROYALTIES FOR ENABLING APP DEV WORK DONE
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christina bowen01:22:42https://backyourstack.com/
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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin01:22:43What happens if a big company or investors want to buy this system once we have all populated it? Like it has happened to so many good ideas. Keep in mind that “we” built the value of google, facebook, etc., yet which one of you gets a check every month from their profits? What happens when this “product” becomes one of the largest repository of regenerative practices and worth $billions? What are the structural safeguards? Who is the board? Who is/are the “owner-s”. Money always corrupts, and this is bound to accumulate traditional market value. There is also the issue of appropriation of indigenous wisdom, knowledge, practices, expropriation of them, say we bring all of this into this platform, then corporate structures take these systems and deploy them under their colonizing, extractive structures? What are the safeguards to keep someone from using this as a commercial platform instead of as the concept of the mycelia concept? I am talking about structurally resisting our colonizing urges.
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christina bowen01:23:13Have you looked at Open Collective’s work on https://backyourstack.com/ ? This might be a route to more stable funding.
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neha sharma01:23:29Yes, thank you, we are a yes to a lot of these conversations. To share where we’re at with this: March: Terran Collective began stewardship of Hylo April : Terran & BFA began partnership agreement with specific scope June: complete Phase 1 of development July: share with a larger circle, invite them to co-create with us (with ideas, use cases, deeper dialogue, monetary resources) — ALL types of co-creation welcome August: share development more widely
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Susan Clark01:23:36Bernie ran a presidential campaign on small donations – its was a first and very powerful demonstration of how powerful a grassroots movement can be
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:23:40@reginaldo at this moment we ar asking you to trust us. But we are working to develop a model/org structure that will ensure this never happens. We want to turn this into a coop with a council of elders governing it 🙂
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Milton Dixon01:23:49If this platform does the work the money and attention will follow.
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Daymaker01:23:59@reginaldo Haslett this should be set up under a trust with clear governance so that can never happen. Similar to land conservancy’s etc
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Milton Dixon01:24:14I’ll pay if it makes the connections I need.
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Greg Austic01:24:57@reginaldo — there are also licensing structures in place – copy left, to ensure that written code can’t be reused without continuing to be public and open. We use them in our development as do many others. Its a part of the answer to your quesiton (Tibets previous post is another).
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Mark Wagnon01:25:03Invisible Economy, like at Burning Man, only for the ‘Default Mode Network’…
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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin01:25:19I am ready to make a contribution. Willingness to share is central, protection of what is shared and structures to keep the gifts on giving is central to sustaining trust and giving the actual revolutionary power that it is designed to achieve.
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:25:56All the code is already open source too!
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Mariette Papic01:26:44+1 Willingness to share is central
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christina bowen01:26:50Where will the recording link will be posted?
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Daymaker01:27:08love to chime in
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association01:27:09mycelia.earth
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Mariette Papic01:27:11On Mycelia.Earth and we will send it to everyone who attended in a followup email
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christina bowen01:27:15thx
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Mariette Papic01:27:21Thank you for being here Christina!
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association01:27:28Daymaker next
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association01:27:44who else wants to talk
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christina bowen01:27:49@mariette <3
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Mariette Papic01:27:51I am still dedicated to looping this community to the Social Roots project/search engine
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:28:01@Christina we definitely plan to use open collective. You can also already donate to Hylo here: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/Nzc4ODU=
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christina bowen01:28:02+1000 to Reginaldo
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:28:17Yes Mariette, I think Tibet knows Social Roots founders?
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Mariette Papic01:28:26Yes!
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christina bowen01:28:28I am on the sr team
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Zach Elfers01:28:29thank you Reginaldo. In that vein, what kind of EULA will be involved here? In the spirit of cooperative economies, if hylo starts to generate $, can those funds we distributed equitably among the cloud who make this platform what it is?
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Mark Wagnon01:28:34Let connect with Zach Bush about working together…
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Ian Graham, ON 6a01:28:51yes insurgency yes building the sequel to the now OVER present civilization. get ready for being the target of vested interests, as Jackson asked: who is threatened.
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Mariette Papic01:28:52+1 Mark let’s be microbial
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:28:59@Zach. Yes yes and yes that is the plan. Working on the language and structure for that
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Kelly Erhart – Terran Collective01:29:04Yes yes yes!
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neha sharma01:29:07yesss!
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Greg Austic01:29:07+1000 to legal tools are garbage without personal change
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Susan Clark01:29:48Sustainable Economies Law Center in Oakland should set up legal structure to protect the insurgent, public nature of Mycelia – legal protection from the worst instincts of the takeover gurus
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association01:29:50amanda next
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:30:08Love SELC and we definitely need to talk to them
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:30:09yes Susan that’s a great idea, we are fans of SELC
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:31:31That’s exactly what we want, for Hylo to serve as a public utility and trust that cannot be hijacked by market forces
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Mariette Papic01:32:08What a generous share Daymaker!
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Ian Graham, ON 6a01:32:15most likely we’re headed for deep deep depression and bankrupt governments, money of little value. build mycelia for this world
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Viktor Zaunders01:32:26after a move to Holochain, it is much much harder to co-opt anything. full distribution makes the network resilient to being tugged back into degeneration
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:32:44@Viktor +1
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christina bowen01:32:52HI Amanda!
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:33:07<3 Amanda <3
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christina bowen01:33:12“Eco anxiety valium” 😛
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neha sharma01:33:12Thank you Amanda <3
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Zach Elfers01:33:25This is very exciting, great work everyone! Thank you!
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neha sharma01:34:02and the “business plan” is shared transparently with every single user
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Mariette Papic01:34:02Yes Ian. The old currency structures are well within collapse, so let’s use it now 🙂
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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin01:34:15There is nothing wrong with accumulating and exchanging value. Just don’t let it fall into the government-controlled money printing scheme.
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Amanda JOY Ravenhill01:35:05regenerosity.world
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christina bowen01:35:39^^^ <3
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Gabe Youtsey01:36:00Please share the recording. I want to share…
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David Rose01:36:01a comment in general about the abundance of funding options outside of ads and data / contact selling out – helpful? : )))
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Paula Westmoreland01:36:07Part of what’s special about Hylo is its ability to hopefully empower people; creating new pathways to build real community
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association01:36:22David do you want to speak?
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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin01:36:46Key principle/Criteria: Validate, elevate, promote, recognize indigenous knowledge where all regenerative practices come from. Screening for this is central in the regenerative revolution.
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association01:36:51Gabe the recording will be on mycelia.earth and we will send out to all attendees as well.
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David Rose01:37:10yes please
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Gabe Youtsey01:37:33Remember many people who work at the big, evil social media platforms are leaving and want to engage with initiatives and platforms like this.
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BFA Bionutrient Food Association01:38:06yes gabe
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:39:07The regenerative future is not for sale 🙂
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Kelly Erhart – Terran Collective01:39:16+100 clare
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Greg Austic01:39:29Terran team – great job identifying + prioritizing the technical elements that, while only represented shortly on the call, are actually really key at building the kind of momentum we’re seeing on this call. Technical progress is an important pre-requisite to social progress – great job keeping both in mind!
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Clare Politano – Terran Collective01:40:15That’s wonderful advice, thank you David
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claudia meglin01:40:19Thank you, David
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John Kempf01:41:05perfect David!!
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Kelly Erhart – Terran Collective01:41:20Such great perspective, thank you david!
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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin01:41:47Selling is one way, being taken over is another way. We have examples of internal takeovers that without selling transform the organizations. Royalties is another way to extract permanently while not directly engaged in producing something. Not disagreeing, just pointing out that colonization of the mind is a dangerous thing because it allows us to justify a lot of things, including extracting royalties from knowledge and practices that took thousands of years for Native folks to develop.
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christina bowen01:42:16^
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:42:25Absolutely, thank you @reginaldo
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Mariette Papic01:42:33I’ve saved this chat because it is so rich
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Tibet Sprague (Terran Collective)01:42:49decolonize technology!
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lisa.stokke@protonmail.com01:42:54Beautiful – thank you all!!!
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Franklin Egan (Pasa Sustainable Ag)01:43:01Thanks everyone! Super interesting and I’d like to stay engaged.
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Karl, Soil4Climate01:43:05thanks!
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Sarah Barsalou – Regeneration Canada01:43:10Thank you!
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Manta @ Damanhur01:44:00Thank you!
Update: July 15, 2020 – Continuing the conversation about the vision and direction of Mycelia.
- Mariette PapicHi Keala!
- neha sharma1.) process of how we step into collaboration with each other and the planet 2.) how we coordinate our networks & communities 3.) how could a technology platform support & enable the above?
- Keala Youngsomeone may need to claim the host
- Richard JefferiesHow can this new platform most efficiently replace Facebook in regen people’s lives?
- Richard JefferiesMe
- Richard Jefferies:Richard Jefferies Regnerative Farmer Maryland
- Richard Jefferies:I watched the replay of the last session
- neha sharma:Awesome, thanks for watching and thanks for joining today!
- neha sharma:Neha Sharma, Terran Collective and New Energy Nexus
- Tay Lotte:Tay Lotte, At The Epicenter, Boulder, CO
- Paula WestmorelandPaula Westmoreland, Minneapolis, Ecological Design and Permaculture Institute North America
- dankittredgeDan Kittredge Bioutrient Food Association Barre Ma
- Mark WagnonMark Wagnon, Ann Arbor, MI mark.wagnon@gmail.com +1 231-412-7711 Telegram: @Axiom0
- Mariette PapicThe hashtag across groups
- Mark WagnonDistributed Networks can go deeper with ‘semantic’ relationships that enhance the potential for ‘synergy’.
- Mariette Papic*communities
- Richard JefferiesWill there be a “consumer” entry point as well as “production” entry point? People looking for regen food.
- AJRAmy Roe, SEO Consultant, North Carolina
- Steph GriffinStephanie Griffin, Bay Area, CA – GuideWorks (Consulting – current: UC) and CannTango (Hemp Products)
- Chad MonfredaChad Monfreda, Ann Arbor, MI
- Aaron MartzAaron MartzFarmer/DesignerJackson, MI
- dankittredgeRichard yes public map and search and sort functions for topics and specifics like regen food
- Matthew AdamsMatthew Adams, Gloucestershire, England. Co-Founder of Growing Real Food For Nutrition. Hi
- neha sharmaThe “consumer” and “producer” entry point is an interesting one. Something slightly related and top of mind is how we think about: - the relationship between organizations and organizations - the relationship between organizations and individuals
- Mariette PapicThis is all geo-located/focused too, right?
- Ellen BestWe have a very effective google group and this seems like an expansion of that – is there a way to hone into one spot in the map and have all the mycelia of our chapter be accessed? like a bulletin board of all our events, initiatives?
- dankittredgeExactly Ellen Everyone can zoom into their own geolocated region and see all of the things that are happening in the area
- Ellen BestSo sort of like a website and facebook combined?
- Matthew Adamswill maps work for any country or is it just America?
- Ellen BestWhat’s a community moderator?
- dankittredgeintended to be global
- dankittredgeHave not built that bit yet
- Aaron MartzI know there was a discussion in the last meeting about economics, I’d like to dive deeper into that. Ideas such as time bank, local currency, fundraising, community investing, etc
- Richard JefferiesWouldn’t the most effective way to build user base be a marketplace function? Put buyers together with sellers – particularly with nutrient dense food grown using specified practices.
- dankittredgeThese are the types of posts that we are hoping to populate the platform with Richard. That will help get engagement for sure.
- Chad Monfreda@neha I’ve been thinking about organizations too and how they relate to individuals and community. It highlights the community not as an entity but a bounded commons space that creates the shared value of communication and action
- Mark WagnonCan smart relationships be suggested based on an ‘automated tagging’ system based on ‘values’…?
- Mariette PapicPaula put buying clubs into our original use case examples
- neha sharma@Mark yes, that’s a desire – can touch on that in a moment
- Richard JefferiesAggregating like-minded regen people creates a great opportunity to build political will – to change policy at local, state a federal levels.
- Aaron Martzthanks for the explanation Tibet. I’m not very excited about the idea of another social network just for events or marketplace… creating the tools that allow communities to really take control of their economics is powerful, especially for Regen ag, and local economics systems
- Tibet Sprague@Aaron +100
- Tibet SpragueThough I will say there is also value in getting off of Facebook and co-creating a platform that is still free, open source, not abusing our data and deeply values aligned
- Mariette PapicDefining “Resources” and values around them
- Chad MonfredaAnd stories are themselves maps. How then to enable stories to be told in map form?
- Mariette Papic^^ yes
- Paula WestmorelandThis is a really important conversation about agreements and reciprocity!!!
- Richard Jefferiesaudio problems
- Richard JefferiesYes I would join now.
- Richard JefferiesEvolve as marketplace and tool to build political will.
- Mark WagnonYes… I’m already using Hylo in other communities… I’ve been watching it, for 2 years as a platform for many groups… Especially the potential of doing other “Mycelium” functions like ‘economic’ transmutation as we evolve rapidly.
- Keala YoungI’m curious about the network of networks capacity for the regenerative movement of movements – how to have the networks and orgs visible to one another in Hylo for example – interoperability or bridging with other platforms, integrating regenerative value flows/currencies (SEEDS, existing and emergent local currencies)
- Tay LotteI am also curious about this ^ Keala
- neha sharma@David Daly – would love to hear more about your use cases in regions that may not be able to have enough bandwidth. One of our Design Principles is Inclusivity and we will need to solve this one way or another. I also face this in some of my other projects (outside of Terran), and we’ve had to be careful about which systems & tools we suggest and for what purposes. Essentially, this is a conversation that needs to be had.
- Aaron Martzcould be a way to grow the idea of certified naturally grown, organic cert, etc
- neha sharma@Kaela — yes, you can see these nested and clustered on the map in different ways, but there is still work to do to better understand how *exactly* folks would like this to be viewed
- Ellen BestIt seems so big and vast. Is there simple access for participants? what’s the access process for a simple conversation/question to our community. ie., click on map, then what?
- Keala Youngprotocols and standards that already exist can be integrated .. as far as licensing or approval perhaps integrating all of the existing information – even in a decentralized way there can be reputation and local knowledge – badges and tokens that convey those preferences can be part of tagging or filtering
- Matthew AdamsI was thinking quality would be controlled by nutrient density? Farms and growers can post values of Brix or Bionutreint meter (when developed)
- Mariette PapicAPIs could help with this too, for validation
- Mariette PapicOtherwise, an entity let’s say a farm belongs to communities that are trusted and so that verifies through that relationship/s
- Mariette Papic+1 to Matt
- Aaron Martzthe other axis to this nutrient question is local – building local food helps build the local economy, even if it is not adhering to principles that some of us hold
- Matthew AdamsIf consumer understands nutrition they will know that fresh and local is going to be best.
- Keala Youngdoing this kind of sense-making with existing and emergent metrics (doughnut economics, SDGs, MetaImpact) can be added to dashboard/profile function .. something we are working on 😉
- Mark WagnonOther partners of Holochain to consider relationship and networking with: https://commonsengine.org/ RedGrid: https://redgrid.io/
- neha sharma^@Keala yup. so many communities/orgs are asking us *how to sense-make* — let’s chat about this more, would love to hear more about what you’re working on
- neha sharma@Mark, we are a huge fan of Commons Engine
- Mariette PapicI really enjoy this community design approach and its growth here today
- Keala YoungYes @neha i’m in for that – @mark also fan of Commons Engine and holochain
- Mariette Papic@keala Hypergroove ?
- Tibet SpragueCommons engine connected us with BFA and we are due to have a conversation with them about their work on Just One organics too
- AJRI have a question about public info
- Ellen BestYes instructions list for joining!!
- neha sharmaWe have a “Getting Started with Hylo” Guide coming within the week!
- neha sharma@AJR – great, let’s dip into that next
- Mariette PapicCan we talk about using this for education?
- Mark WagnonProfile stuff leads to deeper relationships
- David DalyI’ve got to hop off, great talking about this everyone! Looking forward to hearing more
- Matthew Adamshere is a scenario – If I came onto Mycelia looking to source some local, nutrient dense food could I log the request, set a pin on my location and ask for offers within say, 25 mile radius or 50 mile radius? And if the request was met could I reach out to find someone who might be travelling my way, willing to deliver?
- Tibet Sprague^ yes that is exactly what we want to support. We are close to being able to enable that use case
- Matthew AdamsCool
- Mark WagnonVirtual Meeting space integration / facilitation
- Tibet Sprague@mark we plan to start with simple Jitsi integration for video chat
- neha sharma@AJR haven’t forgotten about you and the questions re Public
- Chad MonfredaI wonder if there is room for expanded roles/titles for community members beyond administrators, e.g. community rep, community welcome person, etc. Even if those roles didn’t have special functions on the platform, it could be an interesting to create identity and connection. On the other hand, that would make the community start to take the form of an organization…
- Tibet Sprague@chad +1 yeah we’ve been thinking about that too. Making visible each org/communities structure
- Mark WagnonWhat about intelligent agent profile building / and relationship suggestions…
- Chad Monfreda@tibet +1 It would also be powerful if people could assume different roles/identities in different communities.
- Keala Young@chad, that could be great functionality as an option as it would make room for more sociocratic circle engagement to happen by design; @tibet great to have that be visible by default or as an option
- neha sharma@marks, yes! appreciating your thoughts
- Keala Youngmaking initial welcoming pathways for onboarding new people, brief video demos/tours – love the ethical game design approach for those entries @mariette
- Mariette Papicinitial welcoming pathways Keala
- Tibet SpragueI haven’t had lunch yet so sorry im going to eat while we talk 🙂
- Aaron Martzspeaking about integrating organizations/institutions, what sort of tools/identity management is needed for those institutions to feel secure in bringing their identity onto the system?
- Aaron Martzwithout those organizations we lose out of growing to the next level with ideas such as Regen ag at the institutional level
- Adam ParsonsIt sounds to me like initially this needs exclusivity and not open accessibility to all, similar to the way facebook started by only letting in the .edu market. There’s a certain segment of the population that’s going to ‘get this’. (And definitely a portion that won’t) The exclusivity draws the selected audience in. (People in the know). So one would be to create that hunger and two would be to have that marketing campaign to show why this is different. It sounds like there’s two animals here. (Just one opinion)
- Tibet SpragueWould be cool to document who are all the players/orgs we want involved, and what would they want/need to jump in
- Adam ParsonsAlso to delineate who primed people would be to consume and populate this.
- Tibet SpragueThe exclusivity angle is interesting… something to think more about
- neha sharma@AdamParsons really interesting. While we want this to be open and accessible to all, we are certainly being intentional about who & how we invite into certain levels of dialogue. At what point does this make us vulnerable to “groupthink”? At what point does it ensure that our design principles & commitments are bing upheld?
- Mark WagnonYes. ‘Agent-centric’ instead of ‘Data-centric’!!!
- Aaron MartzI would be interested in something like what Ellen is talking about – there are many mushroom growing groups on Facebook for example with lots of good information, but it gets lost very easily
- Tibet Sprague@Aaron yeah come on in!
- Matthew AdamsI am planning to get some comparative trial sites up and running in the UK next year (funding dependant) to begin growing nutrient dense veg in the UK. I would like to use Mycelia to help link all the growers together. Happy to populate Mycelia and start a group to give it a go.
- Aaron Martzwhat faith is talking about makes me think of permissionless cryptocurrency, the two agents come together to exchange, and then leave when that exchange is over
- Tibet SpraguePlanting SEEDs 😉
- Mark WagnonThat was the intention of CEPTR, Meta-currency Project, Holochain, (and SEEDS) follow Nature’s Patterns…
- Mariette PapicI feel that Faith
- Keala Youngand HYPHA (would love to converse on this more 😉 http://www.differencebetween.net/science/nature/difference-between-mycelia-and-hyphae/#: ~:text=The%20two%20terms%20refer%20to,as%20strings%20and%20threadlike%20filaments.&text=On%20the%20other%20hand%2C%20mycelium,vegetative%20part%20of%20the%20fungus.
- Paula WestmorelandI’m interested in continuing to work on developing functionality, community agreements and messaging + pulling people/networks into the system and launching some projects
- Chad MonfredaYes @faith we’ve explored the idea of ephemeral communities in the past gathered around specific purposes. Cross-community projects and events could also provide that function.
- Aaron MartzI’m interested in economics projects, such as developing local investment groups and linking then with local Regen ag projects, sustainable low income housing projects, etc etc
- Keala Young@aaron, working on that through GRC (Global Regeneration CoLab) and Hypha/SEEDS currently – happy to weave on that from a pattern level
- Richard JefferiesGreat idea
- Tibet Sprague@Keala another mapping project we can do together 🙂
- Chad MonfredaCommunities could also be purely internal, e.g. devoted to on-board, support, engage other communities on Hylo/Mycelia
- neha sharma@Tibet I can stay on a bit if you need to drop
- Paula WestmorelandI need to leave too; thanks everyone
- Richard JefferiesAgree with AJR
- Tibet SpragueYes yes
- Chad Monfreda@AJR So how could a community be publicly visible but still keep its members, posts, etc. private?
- Ellen BestDo you want me to send you a description of our chapter/community to add to the map?
- Tay Lotte@Chad, each community could expose some information ie description, amount of members, location and then the inner workings of the group would be private until you join
- Carol CurtisIs there a time set to meet next week?? I have another group that of course meets Weds at 3 pm eastern…
- Keala Youngthanks all! i also have to jump 🙂
We’ll have exciting news to share later this month.