[1st-mile-nm] Oh, sad New Mexico, we love, we love you so | Chris Cervini

[Gillian Densmore]

@Carl

People don't come and stay and develop because you have nifty culture.
They come and stay and develop because you make nifty culture.  Getting out
may be the way we learn enough about ourselves as a state to survive

Anecdotally definatlly. as a bit of a a countery bumpkin technomancer
looking back several years. Who'da thunk that Steve, Densmore the Elder,
you, and a few others chewing the fat at Downtown sub, would turn into a
mail list with people across the globe?
I'm seeing the Game culture here showing some similar potential. There's
folks that come into town only to play poker, chess, backgaman, etc.  And
there unifying into one meet up group (slowly). They come from as
relatively far out as Los Alimos at that.


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>wrote:

> (If the nfernal gmail interface is working properly this should be doing
> the right kind of respond)
>
> @Mr.Tom Jonson. The Force is working in ways to set out a game plan. I say
> that as a recent graphics design project I just completed is aimed at civic
> pride. I was asigned roswell. Someone else got Santa Fe.  Roswell has some
> truly fascinating history.
> What would it look like to have a set of Kickstarters? I could see 'Living
> city' 'Hello Brisbane' kind of things being a start. I say that because if
> moral with in the City is junk, I have a hard time seeing a sane investor
> gambling millions for growth. Anecdotally my LivingCityApp (called Ingress)
> has only gotten traction because Niantic is doing an amazing job of
> sponsoring meet up groups. The other cach is it only works on smart
> phones.   Next part of the Kickstarter: University. a online might work.
> That'd be contigent on it developing a solid rep. Yes there's Santa Fe
> Comunity College and that's a good start. But to the best I know of there's
> no follow up school. Schools (sometimes) attract industry. If it's a
> brick'n mortor school it'll have a much better chance to succed with bullet
> train between Abq and santa fe. I
>
> My pragmatic question: If i'm taking on some part of "Living Cities NM",
> where all do I find best-practices for iOS UX design, and one for Android
> design. And there's also making a massive Data base of cool stuffs in Santa
> Fe. Starting there as it's where I live. I'd apreciate w/e help people can
> provide, as I'm up to my hips in homework as is.
>
>
>
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> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
>
>> Just curious: do any of us know if the city council took any steps
>> outlined in the Angelou Plan?  They payed quite a bit to have the study
>> done, so I imagine there was at least some pressure to follow through.
>>
>>    -- Owen
>>
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