| Franchise for Humanity Protocols (4/8) Protecting Trade Secrets in Public venues –you can talk ABOUT a secret without disclosing the secret. If it is a secret, don’t say it in a public form. Implemented: We take public notes that can be edited, and address technical accuracy, as well as policy and ethics. Latest set of raw notes from April 22 meeting is at : http://meetingwords.com/VX423pe1C1 Contact:Kimberly2Kimberly@wiefling.com kimberlyking2@gmail.com |
| OMEGA (4/22) Startup Framework for Omega Branding project For the Collaborate.org, Jonathanwill add information about the about potential OMEGA sites in many countries. Garry Guan and Jim Caldwelloffering possibility in China. Proposal will be discussed 5/1. Develop student base for Omega, plus existing environmental movement advocates F4H members: Stan Gould, Rob Stephenson, Jim Caldwell, Michael Norwood Contact: Jonathan Trentj onathan.d.trent@nasa.gov |
| Fonts for African languages & UNICODE (4/22) Fonts for Africa Garry Guan is forming a corporation: “Fonts for All” Rosetta project at Long Now Foundation captured fonts and dictionaries of over 200 uncommon languages with low numbers of living speakers. Fed funds. Output public. Check out Unicode Website: www.unicode.org There is a section called "Where is my Character" which helps locate a given character using standard lists and a Last Resort Section: Unicode Character Blocks by Last Resort Glyph Last Resort Font The Last Resort font is a collection of glyphs to represent types of Unicode characters. These glyphs are designed to allow users to recognize that an encoded value is one of the following: o a specific type of Unicode character o in the Private Use Area (no private agreement exists) o unassigned (reserved for future assignment) o one of the illegal character codes. All files for the most up-to-date version of the Unicode Character Database can be found at:http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/. Contact: Garry Guan for Fonts, Jim Caldwell for Unicode |
| Film Festival for Youth(4/8) Members: Amy Ng, Linda Staheli. Met week 1 April in DC: Marjéwas in Washington, had a meeting on youth film festival idea, 12 people gathered in my home: Lots of energy and discussion about something to unveil on MLK 's birthday: The idea is to give young people hope, and to build on MLK's dream. Short films, competition of short clips, pilot in DC. Meeting with folks in DC on infographics and marketing. See where it goes. Contact:Linda Staheli lstaheli@gmail.com and Marje marje@sustainatlanta.org |
| Public Universities and Social entrepreneurs (4/8) Call April 1 after F4H call, on Social Entrepreneurship and Public Universities Seminal paper being written by Brian and Kennan. Kimberly K has multiple (projects) on Universities and Social Entrepreneurship. One is in Sweden; pilot ends in October. Regional development model to address youth unemployment and engagement. WISE. Social entrepreneurship is more than job creation - it's community development as well. Denise spoke about Brian's book Fiat Lux and opportunity to promote. Shared ideas and brain-stormed ~ projects on Public Service Contracts and article on this. Kennan will be talking with Grandpa Fred from Loyola Marymount (has been working in social entrepreneurship for decades). Contact:Brian Donohue briandonohuelaw@gmail.com |
| China & Student Exchanges (4/8) - Denise working on Education & China exchanges in Los Angeles: Counsel on contracts -Jim Caldwell: Worked on this for 14 years. San Jose State has Engineering students team under the “Communiversity Model” - Terry Christensen Jim would like to get together with Denise to discuss.In 1990, set up an institute for children's art of the environment, intention was to raise their and parent's awareness - melded into a children's mural project that is conducted yearly. Linda Staheli hasa friend Shao-Lin. well connected in China & US: Energy, Sun-wind systems. Kennan Salineropromises to introduce Ms. Song. Michael Norwood offers help. Contact: Denise O’Brien Denise.NSD@gmail.com |
| CleanTechIce911.org (4/8) Kimberly Wiefling is business advisor to Ice911.org, founded by Dr. Leslie Field. Denise met Leslie, a professor at Stanford - restoring Arctic Ice cap and have a project going on. See details at debategraph.org/Ice911 Contact:Kimberly Wiefling kimberly@wiefling.com+1 650 867 0847 |
| Science Tech and Innovation Collaboratory in DC (4/8) Working on paper for Woodrow Wilson Center on developing Global Collaboratory approach. Researching with Tom Kalil, now at the White House, he started 'Big Ideas' at Berkeley which seed funds students at UC Berkeley to address big global challenges. Members: Kennan SalineroContact:Linda Staheli lstaheli@gmail.com |
| Gamification (4/8) Jai is working on a gamification component as a plug-in for F4H, with Kimberly Wiefling on this game system to incorporate principles. Would love to have a small group assess the content. Have a model to plug content into. What content and what level. X-Orb - can be downloaded on iPhone. Online system is atxthegame.com. Jim Caldwell’sstepson is doing a project with prisoners on a gamification program where they participate in global solutions. Robertais very interested in this prisoner project. Contact: Jai Hudes j@xthegame.com |
| Humanity.Collaborate.org (4/1) -OMEGA will be a pioneering F4H project on the site. Stan Gould and Robert Stephenson are working on an update of FAQs for next Tuesday 4/8/14. -Teaming Agreements is the second F4H project on the site. Kimberly Wiefling & Kimberly King. Seeking F4H Co-Creator Community’s comments. -Change of Name – to www.F4H.collaborate.org or www.FranchiseforHumanity.collaborate.org-existing name is being re-used for different purpose. Please provide input before change. Last chance for input April 14. Contact: Kennan Salinero Kennan@yamanascience.org |
| Debategraph.org/F4H (4/1) Kimberly Wiefling scheduled tutorial with David -10AM Pacific time Wednesday April 2nd. Tutorials w/David Price 3/5, 3/15, 3/22, 4/2.Let David know if you want a tutorial. Contact:David Price: david@debategraph.org |
| Global Health and Humanitarian Summit – Dr. Neil Shulman (4/1) Humanitarian, MD at Emory University, Dr. Shulmanwrote 'Doc Hollywood.' His idea is to have non-profits get together and spearheaded 3 Global Health and Humanitarian Summits (GHHS). Ann Bassarab had Emory students get together to write chapters about what the speakers talked about. Students first found out about speakers’ projects and successes, then interviewed them. This has huge potential because it brings together students and the nonprofits and doctors, a project that brings a lot of people together. Barbara Marx Hubbard spoke last year at the GHHS. Denise is producing the July 2014 event honoring Dr Shulman. Contact: Ann Bassaraband Denise O’Brien |
| Grants (4/1) Small Business Innovation Research Grants. Jack Park has won 3 of these. Issued in conjunction with different Fed Departments – generally: Phase 1 6 months, $50k+, basically for writing the proposal for Phase 2 Phase 2 1+ years, $500k Phase 3 – Build a market, make it a business $1M or so Some bias to open source, and open research, since funding by tax payers Contact:Jacqueline Chan jacqulinechan7@gmail.com |
| Global Service Jam (3/25) Worldwide movement: People come together for 48 hours to work on a common problem. June 4,5,6 is Global Gov Jam. Innovations for the public sector. Hosted anywhere by anybody. Download tools to host a jam. F4H Contact:Sandy Bates sbates@theinnovationpartners.com |
| California Health Corps (4/22) Monthly meeting 5/17/14 at Mei lin’s 2-5 pm. See www.Debategraph.org/CHC Members: Bill Daul, Kennan Salinero, Dan Desmond, Mei Lin Fung, Jacqueline Chan, Tammy Chan, Tim Berlyn, Cindy Mason Contact:Bill Daul, Co-founder of CHC, bdaul@nextnow.net |
| F4H Papers (4/15) Linda Staheli (Wilson Center 3/25) Sandy Bates (Edison Awards) Sandy Bates and Mei Lin Fung (Stanford Social Innovation Review) Contact: Sandy Bates sbates@theinnovationpartners.com |
| Network Capability Building (3/25) Video and publications powerful vehicles. Spoke with Neil Shulman about Global Health and Humanitarian Summit 2013 when in Atlanta. Contact:Kimberly King kimberlyking2@gmail.com |
| Dyslexia Focus (3/25) www.Debategraph.org/Dyslexia Members: David Price, Linda Staheli Contact: Linda Staheli lstaheli@gmail.com |
| Collaboration Tools (3/25) Learn about different tools.www.Nautilus.orgis a multi-year effort on global collaborations – a fabulous set of tools, mapping & resources pulled together by Peter Hayes. Linda spoke with Dan Desmond about Collaborate.org and will connect with Kevin Montgomery when he is in DC. Kimberly King met with multiple groups at the UN Conference on the Commission on Women about Collaborate.org – bringing in networks Kevin Montgomery & she are in, to leverage the tools to catalyze to shift to next level Contact:Linda Staheli lstaheli@gmail.com |
| Corporate Kid (3/18) Met with Bill Kent, CEO of TNT, because we believe media is a great way to get the message out to kids right now. You can look up Neil Shulman's book. -BackSack project - piloting 100 CEOs with 100 kids. Doing a reality show, a documentary, ultimately leading to a film. Curriculum can be created at Stanford by Tom Kosnick. -Charging CEOs $50,000. Will create a foundation to give shares to the kids. -At ASVEN Conference Marje was invited to Singapore to bring this concept. Contact:Marje’ Etheridge marje@sustainatlanta.org |
| Open Standards in health and health sciences (3/18) Set up Charles Goldfarb conversation with John Mattison (3/14) Members: Tim Berlyn, Kennan Salinero, Linda Staheli, Jim Caldwell (Unicode) Contact:Mei Lin Fung mlf@alum.mit.edu |
| Mental Health (and Youth) (3/4) Brie’s websitewww.lovetheskinyourein.net She has spoken to 50,000 young women and interested youth based conferenceespecially centering on mental health issues Contact:Brie@lovetheskinyourein.net |