For a long time now I have been the only person facilitating, moderating and administrating the HTC. The experiment of being âleaderlessâ did not work out, and hence I have adopted once again the role of your Community Lead.
As part of the repositioning effort weâll be the formation of new teams, and I am specifically looking for volunteers who have the desire to be active together with me. It may be that the current teams will continue to exist, in which case in due time I will create a poll asking who wants to stay in the team, and also allow new members to join the fun. People who no longer have time, interest, or do not respond will be removed from the members list.
Thanks for the announcement. Also, itâs really commendable that you have been taking the lead regarding everything about the community. I personally would love to continue contributing to the community. I was busy with my final year project of uni study, but I should have been able to dedicate more time for this. I will follow closely with whatâs going on and help whenever I can!
Count me in! My next few weeks are quite busy, but Iâm able to commit to this for the duration of 2021.
Also, @aschrijver I think weâre long overdue to have a Zoom or something. To the extent that I can be helpful, Iâm happy to offer my brain (for strategy) or just my âmusclesâ (for administrative tasks, etc.) as needed to help grow - but more importantly deepen - this community.
My motivation is both altruistic (I genuinely believe in the mission and values of this community) and personal (I hope to expose more people to Readup, which has a similar mission and values)
Peace and love,
Bill
PS Have you read Reinventing Organizations by Frederick Laloux? I just revisited it after a few years and I think it would be right up your alley. âLeaderlessâ is hard (perhaps impossible) but it doesnât mean that you need to completely scratch your plans for an innovative, decentralized model here.
Some time ago I have decided that I am content with a different role for Humane Tech Community. After we started out with the same ambition as the CHT of âtriggering a cultural awakeningâ which came with a lot of âproblem-awarenessâ raising, the last reorganization was of HTC becoming mainly solution-oriented, and hence set out on a path of positivity and optimism from there. But with the analogy of âBuilding the Pyramids of Humane Technologyâ it was still having a grand (if not huge) vision.
Iâve posted a number of times of the âbarrier to actionâ that exist in many people and ways to overcome it, but as community lead I continue to fall into âthe trapâ that whenever I want to start some real activity, I also become the primary person responsible to keep the ball rolling, take the initiative, and invest most of the time in the new project. The Humanetech Translation Program is the latest example of that, where my enthusiasm for this - indeed wonderful - idea, makes me responsible for rallying all volunteers, being the motivator. If things go slow in pace, in this attention-scarce society, people move on again.
In 2021 I will spend time in thinking, together with the community, about a repositioning of HTC. Probably this is along more modest lines. The translation program might be central in this, and other than that I am considering HTC as more of a neat knowledge archive of solutions, where people âdumpâ interesting resources, maybe discuss them, other people (lurkers, maybe) find value in reading about this. And maybe in the future weâll âmineâ the archive and do âpyramid designâ - i.e. elaborating the field of humane technology - but not neccessarily do the pyramid building itself. Leave that to other, better positioned groups.
Iâve posted a number of times of the âbarrier to actionâ that exist in many people and ways to overcome it, but as community lead I continue to fall into âthe trapâ that whenever I want to start some real activity, I also become the primary person responsible to keep the ball rolling, take the initiative, and invest most of the time in the new project.
Zomg - I can so relate to that. This community is really special, even if it just remains as a bulletin board or something like that, rather than a space of âactive work.â I really enjoy the emails. And I regret when I get so busy that I donât check for more than a month.
We should hop on a zoom. Iâm faster on email bill@readup.com
I still have a time-consuming diploma course (Consciously Digital Coach) to accomplish. It ends mid April - so from then on you can count me in. I would be really happy to help in any ways needed
Right now I am feeling guilty of not spending time on 
