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5 Posts that you may enjoy from Ty's 2014 writings

Trusted Sharing was very honored to sponsor a series of events that happened in Asheville in October around Dynamic Facilitation and Wisdom Councils. We had many great people including the founders of these modalities, several authors and some renowned filmmakers. Here are 2 articles that I organized and edited that you can read.


Asheville Wisdom Councils Declare our Social Contract is Broken (on System of Abundance Blog) Wisdom Council Intends to Bring Participation to Asheville’s Government ( on Asheville Grit blog)

In March we partnered with the fine folks at Peppermint, an open source operating system built using the Ubuntu (Linux) codebase. In the process of writing the story we reached out to Peppermint's partner in Africa, Marc Stephan Nkouly, and heard some wild stories. The article was picked up by OpenSource.com, they are an online publication focused on how open source is applied to different areas including business, education, government, health, law and other disciplines of life. Read the article here: Peppermint introduces cloud-based open source desktop to Africa (on OpenSource.com)

One of the realizations I had after our podcast, Spark Tech Talk, interviewed Steve Wozniak, was that connecting with your heroes in meaningful ways was possible. Most folks who have "made it" and are thought leaders want to give back and help spread there ideas even further. So one day I reached out to Harrison Owen, a personal hero of mine and the founder of Open Space (tech folks may know unconferences or barcamps) and asked him if we could do an interview. To make it a truly collaborative experience I partnered with my friends over at Mycelium project, Matt and Ashley, and they ran with the interview. Here is the article: Harrison Owen Interview: Inviting Flow and Self Organization

An on-going theme for me and my life is to work in the social enterprise space. Someone I've worked with and connected with over the last couple of years is Paul Polack. An amazing mind, a leading social entrepreneur and to say just an author would be an understatement. He is like Bill Clinton in my book. One thing that stood out to me was Paul Polack's amazing energy. At 80 years old his mind is more active than most 30 years olds I know. Read the article from January here:  Paul Polak interview about his new book The Business Solution to Poverty

Startup Product Asheville - May 21st (this Wednesday) 5pm to 8pm

I am organizing this event on Wednesday.  I hope to see and engage with you further at this event.  If you are reading this and do end up coming, please stop by and say hi and say that you read the blog.  I would love to see how many people engage through this channel with me.  :)

Here is the RSVP Link: http://www.trustedsharing.com/startupproduct

Special thanks to +Cindy Solomon +Glenn Geffcken who have helped make this a reality (and who I know are on Google +).

Also special invite to +Zacchaeus Nifong, +Ed Brenegar, +Robin Cape, +kevin jones, +Hunter Goosmann, +Sean Lally, +Matt Raker, +Sam Harrelson, +Sam Wyman, +Jennifer Saylor, +jennifer sema bruno, +Allen Gray, +Martin Carstens, +Mark File, +Wade Aaron Inganamort, +Adam J. Cohen, +Gary Charles, +Gary James, +Evans Prater, +Tyler McCall, +Shane Remington, +J Smilanic, +Jim Barton, +Maureen Scullin, +David Bourne, +Matt Raker, +Katie Kasben, +Katie Hicks, +Autumn Woodward, +Tom Heck

Here is the RSVP Link: http://www.trustedsharing.com/startupproduct

Agile Manifesto

The Agile Manifesto reads, in its entirety, as follows:

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it
and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools
Working software over Comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
Responding to change over Following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the 
items on the left more. 

Picture found (like most of the pictures I use) from using http://search.creativecommons.org/

The Open Source Way

The open source way is...

Open exchange

We can learn more from each other when information is open. A free exchange of ideas is critical to creating an environment where people are allowed to learn and use existing information toward creating new ideas.

Participation

When we are free to collaborate, we create. We can solve problems that no one person may be able to solve on their own.

Rapid prototyping

Rapid prototypes can lead to rapid failures, but that leads to better solutions found faster. When you're free to experiment, you can look at problems in new ways and look for answers in new places. You can learn by doing.

Meritocracy

In a meritocracy, the best ideas win. In a meritocracy, everyone has access to the same information. Successful work determines which projects rise and gather effort from the community.

Community

Communities are formed around a common purpose. They bring together diverse ideas and share work. Together, a global community can create beyond the capabilities of any one individual. It multiplies effort and shares the work. Together, we can do more.

Source >> http://opensource.com/open-source-way

Startup Product Asheville - Wednesday, Feb 26th 5p at Asheville Music Hall

What is Startup Product Asheville?  Startup Product Talks Asheville welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence.

Register here

Register here

Harrison Owen Interview: Inviting Flow and Self Organization

To some, Open Space Technology is a method for organizing meetings or facilitating groups. However, to the vast community of Open Space practitioners, Open Space is a way of life. It’s a philosophical perspective about how the world works, how humans organize, and a method for making visible some of the invisible laws of life and nature. We interviewed Harrison Owen, the founder of Open Space to learn his views on self-organization, structure, invitation and even grief.

 Harrison never expected to find himself in this place of organizational development. He started as an Anglican priest and thought he was going to live his life as an Old Testament scholar. Then the Civil Rights movement came along and he found himself on the streets organizing. His life shifted. His degree no longer felt desirable. He found himself spending time in Africa, working with the NIH, and in various other positions. The constant throughout this life journey, however, has been an ongoing passion for the human process or phenomena of transformation. Seventy-eight years into this life journey, Harrison says, “Open Space - that’s a funny interlude that turned out to be quite significant.”

 “My hope would be to somehow make human life more human.” 

 ~Harrison Owen

Paul Polak interview about his new book The Business Solution to Poverty

Earlier this week I had the honor to collaborate with Paul Polak, author of The Business Solution to Poverty on this interview. Paul has been the social entrepreneur who has inspired me the most and at 80 years old he is both full of wisdom, and has an un-bounding energy. Paul has been in the business of creating markets for the poor for over 30 years. He has authored two books and created several successful companies and organizations. "Polak is best known for his work with Colorado-based International Development Enterprises (IDE), a non-profit he founded in 1981 which is dedicated to developing practical solutions that harness the power of markets and attack poverty at its roots. IDE has ended poverty for 19 million of the world’s poorest people by making radically affordable irrigation technology available to farmers." ~Wikipedia

Find out more about the new book, The Business Solution to Poverty, on Paul's website: http://www.paulpolak.com/

Announcing 4 Speakers for Startup Product Asheville Feb 26th + Help us collaborate please

February 26th 5 to 7pm, what are you doing? In honor of collaboration we've started a new event, Startup Product Asheville. This hopes to bring together different organizations and networks in the name of building out our support for entrepreneurs, cultural creatives, geeks and the creative class in general. Thank you to Asheville Music Hall for hosting us!

We have 4 wonderful speakers lined up and I'm happy to share them here as many of them have just been confirming today. We will have 1 hour of networking and 1 hour or a little more of program.

Robin Cape - will present the Collider, a collaborative space that will change the entrepreneurial landscape (like an RTP in the making move)

Bradley Waldrop - will talk about what an Lean Startup Circle is about

Craig McAnsh - signed on today and hopefully will in part give an update about Mojo, 3d printing and whats next for Asheville 

David Miller - will give us an update on the Story Worlding revolution and hopefully we will have some immersive technology at the event.

Read more about our partnership with Cindy Solomon on the West Coast here: http://tyhallock.blogspot.com/2014/01/startup-product-talks-asheville.html
and more about the spirit of collaboration that we are hoping to strike here: http://tyhallock.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-challenge-you-to-do-organizational.html

I am currently trying to partner with groups that would sponsor and help collaborate, invite your membership and generally help out. Asheville Makers and Lean Startups are the first organizations to come on board, but with your help and with my drive to make it happen we will have a truly collaborative shindig.

Also forgot to mention that Ken Hurley and Nicholas Rake will be making the music for the night.

RSVP for the event here:  http://www.meetup.com/StartupProductAsheville/

Special thanks to KP of Asheville Music Hall for sponsoring this event.  Hopefully Mojo Kitchen will be serving some food upstairs for those who would like to eat.

The open source way is...

System of Abundance tries to live the Open Source Way in our work-life and in our life-life.  I try to read it every month at least.  You can see where I pulled it and read a lot of other content about applying open source in life (less geeky, more real-life) here http://opensource.com/open-source-way

~Ty Hallock

Open exchange

We can learn more from each other when information is open. A free exchange of ideas is critical to creating an environment where people are allowed to learn and use existing information toward creating new ideas.