User:Dante
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dante - at - ecobytes.net
gmail / Jabber: dante.monson - at - gmail.com
Skype: dante-gabryell
Msn: dantemonson - at - hotmail.com
July 2007 Detmold Collective:
http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Detmold_Collective
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volunteering interests and skills:
actually , full time dedication in fields that match my current works ( for example , couchsurfing university , etc)
- Be on the field *
- Time *
- Passion *
- a vision for alternative society paradigms to which couchsurfing connects
to - or can open up *
- nomadic activism *
- net-grassroots consultancy *
- lobbying *
- cooperation with NGO s , Busineses , etc *
Languages : english , dutch , french
Grants: Have experience with grants , project development with NGO s in europe and japan , etc - but filling up grants is boring
...and i think i can use my time better in other ways , such as developing ideas that make it possible to develop potential in grassroots and low budget ways )
Skills being acquired... : I am only starting to learn programming and design , ( although have a general good understanding of tech thingies and how we can use it to open up opportunities and new ideas )
Archives - Public Letters :
From Dante Monson (Brussels, Brussels (Bruxelles), Belgium) Sent 8/2/06 11:03 am Replied 8/4/06 10:12pm
Dante Calling the CS Collective ! - after Eisenstadt, ... This is Dante Calling the CS Collective(s) !!
I have surfed parrallel processes to the Collectives in the last years , and after participating at the CS Collective in Eisenstadt , I write this letter as to further share and build on mutual initiatives and inspirations.
I want to continue meeting and spending more time with one or more of the core - full time volunteers - and nomads by soul - , and if we fall in love with each other, I would like to live , travel and work together
join the existing collective , participate in developping new solutions , tools , and mouvements,,
and initiate new spaces , including temporary spaces at existing camps/events and through Camps/Gatherings Hopping.
Dante's Motivations
I m surfing , surfing on processes , and as the processes evolve , co-incidences of people and situations met on the road multiply , to a point where it is no more co-incidence.
Anyway, who am I , and what do I want?
I'm living some kind of post-nomadic lifestyle , constantly moving from reality to reality , connecting realities , building new realities , parallel realities , alternative realities , interconnected realities , shifting paradigms ( ? ) ,
freeing myself progressively to float with greater ease on accelerating paces of transformation ,
ever looking towards opening and creating new opportunities ,
in turn , accelerating even further the access and pace of development of parallel inspiring and empowering paradigms.
And I know I am not alone!
We are connecting with each other.
From camp to camp , from place to place , and in between places , I meet
Creative thinkers , sensitive people , nomads , "surfers" of all dimensions , connecting and building new utopias - utopias of today!
I live , experimenting dreams ,
I am writing this message to the collective(s) , because I know it is part of it :
strenghtening and connecting communities , further developping tools , including these tools that connect and are built upon the community the CS tool brings to life !
I want to continue meeting and spending more time with
one or more of the core - full time volunteers - and
nomads by soul - , and if we fall in love with each
other, I would like to live , travel and work together
on issues such as :
I ) Strategies for opening up new spaces , gathering and managing non-financial ressources :
a) - Finding and managing offers for Spaces that can be developped into collective Spaces and Hubs - see my brainstorming on the subject here:
http://secure.hospitalityclub.org/hc/forum.php?action=showpost&IP=87398
b) - Finding and Managing Free Transportation offer support ( ... from public transportation to ... intercontinental transportation )
II ) Develop Strategies for Cooperation with other friendly platforms and organizations : - for example , http://www.takingitglobal.org ( based in Toronto ) , ...
III ) Connecting with Academics , and Opening up calls for participation within universities for working tool development needs and research that relate to CS projects : - for example , hold meetings to discuss CS in Universities such as "KnowledgeLabs's" ( http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page ) , open up opportunities for research projects , develop cooperation for open courses for the CouchSurfing University/Traveller University.
IV) Promote and work on the development of some of the following tools:
a) - Informal Micro-Sponsorship Tool : http://coforum.oikoumene.net/MagicHat that can be added to (activist?) sub-groups of CouchSurfing
b) - Network Visualization Tools - Cooperation with http://jheer.org/vizster/ ? and other tools and projects I referenced on
http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/referencemaps
and extend it further as to Visual Relations Mapping
http://coforum.oikoumene.net/ReferenceMaps
c) - Work and research for optimization of Sub-Groups on CouchSurfing , and contributing to the development and management of Specific Subgroups - such as HitchHikers.CouchSurfing.Com , Learning.CouchSurfing.Com , Activism.CouchSurfing.Com , Volunteers.CouchSurfing.Com , ... ...
SubGroups
1) In relation to Learning.CouchSurfing.Com , work with ( and find?) programmers to develop tools that can be adapted to various aspects of Learning with other CouchSurfers , and adapted tools , including Sharing of Materials , cooperation with other platforms such as BookCrossing.Com , or LibraryThing.Com ( for wich specific API could be developped? ) , ...
and also the connection between
Learning.CouchSurfing.Com , and the organization of
Spaces that can be used as temporary or permanent CS
Social Centres
this relates to point 1 A :
http://secure.hospitalityclub.org/hc/forum.php?action=showpost&IP=87398
2) In Relation to HitchHikers.CouchSurfing.Com , work (
and cooperate with programmers interested in
developping ) online tools facilitating the search of
other HitchHikers that go in their direction , and
with wich they could hitch hike ( this also connects
with RideSharing.CouchSurfing.Com , and with the
CouchSurfing TravelPlanner ! )
3) In Relation to Activism.CouchSurfing.Com , develop specific tools that can facilitate cooperation and initiative within a mouvement of nomadic activist ambassadors , who open up spaces for reflection by, for example , facilitating : http://coforum.oikoumene.net/PublicOpenSpaceTechnology --> this also relates to http://coforum.oikoumene.net/OpenWorld and previous points
--> this also relates to the development of a mouvement of nomadic ambassadors that practice " Camps/Gatherings Hopping " ( I admit I do ;-) )
and even more issues I am interested in working on ,
using my hitch hiking skills and low budget travelling
lifestyle.
some of such ideas also expressed on
http://www.couchsurfing-phoenix.com/wiki/index.php/User:Dante
I AM CONSIDERING JOINING YOU AT THE CS MONTREAL IF I
FIND THE FUNDS TO FLY OVER --> Sponsor ( I travel and
survive with a Budget of 200 euros a month - as
explained at the end of this page
http://www.couchsurfing-phoenix.com/wiki/index.php/User:Dante
)
ANY SUGGESTIONS WELCOMED !!!
also see more projects , ideas, presentation of myself and perspectives on the following links
http://coforum.oikoumene.net/DanteGabryell
http://coforum.oikoumene.net/DanteProfiles
http://coforum.oikoumene.net/MotivationLetter
http://coforum.oikoumene.net/OpenWorld
http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante
See you somewhere soon! :-)
Dante ( my next plans : Camp in Slovakia - http://ecotopia2006.org )
