Friam Digest, Vol 60, Issue 17
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Thanks, Marcus,
As a relative newcomer to Santa Fe, what amazes me is how ==>natural<== this whole enterprise is. People just keep emerging (you'll pardon the expression) out of the woodwork to do things at the Complex. "If you rent it, they will come!" seems to be the lesson. The only problem is to find some way to pay the rent. I hope others will come soon to see what is happening. It really is quite extraordinary. I think it has something to do with your observation a few days ago that Santa Fe is surrounded by attractive institutions with necessarily high fences. So the Town desperately needs a place with lower fences where the people who have been attracted here by thet scientific, cultural, and intellectual surroundings can get together and talk about what interests them. The Opening pulled in some 300 people. The "Blender" ... I would call it a colloquium, but let that go ... on Wednesday, organized by Steve Smith, was absolutely fantastic . Revived my faith in the life of the mind! I hope others will come quickly to see the building and what is going on, there. As one person said to me, "We cannot let this fail!" Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthompson at clarku.edu) > [Original Message] > From: <friam-request at redfish.com> > To: <friam at redfish.com> > Date: 6/20/2008 10:00:25 AM > Subject: Friam Digest, Vol 60, Issue 17 > > Send Friam mailing list submissions to > friam at redfish.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > friam-request at redfish.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > friam-owner at redfish.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Friam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: Earth energies: Messages from the earth (PPARYSKI at aol.com) > 2. Fw: Re: reflexivity (rolandthompson at mindspring.com) > 3. Re: reflexivity (Marcus G. Daniels) > 4. The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. (Nicholas Thompson) > 5. Re: The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. (Marcus G. Daniels) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:27:35 EDT > From: PPARYSKI at aol.com > Subject: [FRIAM] Fwd: Earth energies: Messages from the earth > To: friam at redfish.com > Message-ID: <d34.2c2578a6.358c1b37 at aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Interesting, although crop circles may be made by FRIAMers in England. > > > > ************** > Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient > used cars. > (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: /attachment-0001.html > -------------- next part -------------- > An embedded message was scrubbed... > From: "Earl James" <earldjames at gmail.com> > Subject: Earth energies: Messages from the earth > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:55:07 -0600 > Size: 17300 > Url: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080619/ff4e1464 /attachment-0001.mht > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:40:56 -0400 (EDT) > From: rolandthompson at mindspring.com > Subject: [FRIAM] Fw: Re: reflexivity > To: friam <friam at redfish.com> > Message-ID: > <1196159.1213922456565.JavaMail.root at elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: /attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:20:40 -0600 > From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <marcus at snoutfarm.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] reflexivity > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <friam at redfish.com> > Message-ID: <485B2208.4090604 at snoutfarm.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > > http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:27:02 -0600 > From: "Nicholas Thompson" <nickthompson at earthlink.net> > Subject: [FRIAM] The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. > To: friam at redfish.com > Message-ID: <380-2200865205272477 at earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear Friam Colleagues, > > I am writing to ask you to support the Santa Fe Complex. The Complex is complexity sciences. For Friam members within commuting distance to Santa Fe, it can be a workplace where you come to share your skills and knowledge with your colleagues and with the community. While you are getting your work done at the Complex, you can also attend workshops and presentations from members of New Mexico?s complexity community and beyond. For those of you outside of New Mexico, it can be your home a way from home during a visit to the Santa Fe. Make the sfComplex your base of operations during a visit to the Santa Fe Institute or to one of the nearby national laboratories. Or you might make it your office during a work vacation, or a place to hide out from the kids during a family vacation. For those of you who live too distant to visit, www.sfcomplex.org can be a virtual meeting place, where you can join projects, discussions, and workshops and download presentations and performances over the internet as they occur. > > Friam members in Santa Fe have been contemplating such an initiative for nearly decade. The complexity workers of Santa Fe, and the many social, natural, and physical scientists who have retired here, live amongst three world-class centers of scientific an science and computational expertise. Yet, until now, we have had no place to collaborate, to share our insights with the general public and to welcome our colleagues from around the world. . > > All that is changing. Last year, a unique building became available in downtown Santa Fe. Formerly a workshop for refurbishing rail cars, the main hall of this building has a vaulted ceiling with clerestories that allow light to spill down on its adobe walls. In the few weeks that it has been in use, the facility has already proved itself an elegant open-plan workspace that can be adapted quickly for lectures, performances, workshops, and exhibits. (See the descriptions of events and picture gallery at www.sfcomplex.org/. Along with shade trees, plantings, ample parking and a smaller office building, this hall forms a pleasant campus just at the edge of the Rail Yard Park, soon to be Santa Fe?s new center for arts and culture. From the Complex, one can walk anywhere in the Rail Yard, to Santa Fe?s historic plaza, or to the terminus of The RailRunner, the new Commuter Rail line that will carry passengers to Albuquerque, only an hour or so to the South. > > We need your help getting this project started. You can make tax deductible donations at http://www.sfcomplex.org/zen-cart/. There are many ways to contribute. If you live nearby, we hope you will become an Affiliate of the sfComplex. Much of the costs of maintaining this facility will be contributed by Affiliates, people who work here, regular visitors who will donate a thousand dollars a year, share in the collaborative work environment of the complex, and participate in its educational activities. We have other forms of affiliation, some less expensive, for people who live out of the area and come here rarely, and others more expensive, for people who will be working here more intensively. (Please see our schedule soon at www.sfcomplex.org/donations.) A small amount of conventional office space will also available. One way or another, we hope that many of you will bring your work to the sfComplex > > Sponsors are also urgently needed. We are working on foundation support, but until our recruitment of affiliates and educational programs are fully established, donations from individuals like you will be absolutely necessary to get the sfComplex up and running. Sponsors can be confident that they will be supporting an organization that will benefit education, art, public policy, and science by focusing the enormous human resources available for complexity thinking in Santa Fe. > . > Whichever means you choose, please give us your support now. The City has offered us 29,000 dollars to help get our operations started, but we must match that with $20,000 in donations by July 1. Your sponsorship or affiliation could decide whether a center for complexity research, education, and practice will thrive here in the City of Santa Fe. > > All the best in your work, > > Nick Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology > Clark University > > For the Santa Fe Complex > > P.S. This fundraising effort is just getting under way, and I am no have questions, comments and suggestions, write me, nthompson at clarku.edu, or the Complex?s Executive Director, Don Begley (don at sfcomplex.org), or Steve Guerin, who is the Chairman of our Board (steve at redfish.com) . Thanks. n > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080619/7e140c7e /attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:39:20 -0600 > From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <marcus at snoutfarm.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <friam at redfish.com> > Message-ID: <485B5EA8.9020008 at snoutfarm.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hey Nick, > > An outsider's first take.. I left work early today and headed down Agua > Fria for a look see. I must say it is impressive what you all have done > with that area and that building. The facility was buzzing at 7pm and > people of all ages were around. A cool and different sort of feel.. > Could definitely see having workshops or meetings there. > > Nice work! > > Marcus > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Friam mailing list > Friam at redfish.com > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 60, Issue 17 > ************************************* |
neccessarily high fences, and an appeal for support.
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Nick -
Great phrase that - "Neccesarily high fences"! It is of special meaning to me as a recent escapee of same. I still go back inside for some "cleanup work" but always carry my small bolt-cutters in case I need to cut my way through said fences. Some personal body armor wouldn't be a bad idea either! Thanks for the credit for organizing "Metaphor, Morpohology and Category" this past Wednesday.... Thank YOU for your own great contribution! The great panel lineup was only exceeded by the great audience participation! As a member of the board and an active participant of the milieu that is the emerging sfComplex, I challenge the rest of this list to pitch in, at least in the short term. Laptop memberships ($100/ month) from a significant fraction of this list would pull us out of the current potential disaster. *now* is a good time to pitch in! Now like before July rent, before the city matching grant period is over! Now like NOW! We may have a sustainable model that will kick in over the next 3-12 months, but for the next 0-6 months an excess of patrons and laptop members could make the difference. I plan to maintain a dual personal laptop and a corporate membership to help tide the Complex through... For the socialists, communists, liberals on the list, this is a call for "from according to ability"... if you can cough $100 (or even $20) per month to see us through to the next phase... bring it on! For the Libertarians... lighten up... and come down and see what is happening and apply some enlightened self-interest...you might find yourself pledging a one-time or multi-month contribution to make sure the Complex makes it over the hump... makes sure it is still there when you want it. my $.02 worth. Contribute early, contribute often! - Steve |
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Steve Smith wrote:
> Great phrase that - "Neccesarily high fences"! It is of special meaning > to me as a recent escapee of same. I still go back inside for some > "cleanup work" but always carry my small bolt-cutters in case I need to > cut my way through said fences. > > [..] > > As a member of the board and an active participant of the milieu that is > the emerging sfComplex, I challenge the rest of this list to pitch in, > at least in the short term. Laptop memberships ($100/ month) from a > significant fraction of this list would pull us out of the current > potential disaster. *now* is a good time to pitch in! Now like before > July rent, before the city matching grant period is over! Now like NOW! > patronage at the sfComplex? Many folks on this list are not Santa Fe residents or are otherwise preoccupied, and so would not personally benefit from laptop memberships.. Perhaps gifts in the near term could be matched with some sort of future consideration (say future visits)? Marcus |
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Steve Smith wrote:
> Laptop memberships ($100/ month) from a > significant fraction of this list would pull us out of the current > potential disaster. *now* is a good time to pitch in! Ah ha! Another option is this: http://www.sfcomplex.org/zen-cart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3 http://www.sfcomplex.org/wiki/SFX_projects |
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In reply to this post by Steve Smith
First, let me thank Nick for sending a funding appeal on behalf of
Santa Fe Complex. Neither he nor I intend to use this list for future appeals but please allow us this one. After years of discussion, we've launched this nonprofit venture to implement Stephen Guerin's vision for a center for applied complexity. We have a committed corp of volunteers who have contributed literally thousands of hours to open the complex and organize its initial events. We have a board with representatives from the scientific and arts communities who believe in our mission and will work to make it succeed. And, we have a community that has responded enthusiastically to our opening on June 14. (For info on the board, etc. go to our wiki. For info on the events, try our blog. And, to see snapshots from recent events, try this.) Like any start-up (or child, for that matter), we're confident we will be able to run but we need help taking our first steps. The City of Santa Fe started that process with the $29,000 grant Nick mentioned. We believe several foundations will come to our support as we work through their grant cycles. We are already seeing our participants ranks growing, especially with inquiries following the grand opening. We're asking you to join this effort. Nick discussed the possibilities of affiliation with the complex. If you prefer, you can make a contribution without becoming an affiliate. As Marcus pointed out, the page for a donation is here. Due to my lack of sophistication with the e-commerce page we're using, the page is set up to all $50 & $1000 donations. If you want to give $5000, say, buy 5 of the $1000 donations. (I'll buy you a cup of coffee or an IPA, depending on your preference. <g>) Any donation, however, is appreciated. If the site doesn't work, please call or email me. If you would like more information, please call or email me. If you want an IPA, . . . Thanks. --- Don Begley Managing Director Santa Fe Complex 624 Agua Fria Santa Fe, NM 87501 www.santafecomplex.org 505-216-7562 505.670.9432 (cell) On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:04 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > Nick - > > Great phrase that - "Neccesarily high fences"! It is of special > meaning > to me as a recent escapee of same. I still go back inside for some > "cleanup work" but always carry my small bolt-cutters in case I need > to > cut my way through said fences. Some personal body armor wouldn't > be a > bad idea either! > > Thanks for the credit for organizing "Metaphor, Morpohology and > Category" this past Wednesday.... Thank YOU for your own great > contribution! The great panel lineup was only exceeded by the great > audience participation! > > As a member of the board and an active participant of the milieu > that is > the emerging sfComplex, I challenge the rest of this list to pitch in, > at least in the short term. Laptop memberships ($100/ month) from a > significant fraction of this list would pull us out of the current > potential disaster. *now* is a good time to pitch in! Now like > before > July rent, before the city matching grant period is over! Now like > NOW! > > We may have a sustainable model that will kick in over the next 3-12 > months, but for the next 0-6 months an excess of patrons and laptop > members could make the difference. > > I plan to maintain a dual personal laptop and a corporate membership > to > help tide the Complex through... > > For the socialists, communists, liberals on the list, this is a call > for > "from according to ability"... if you can cough $100 (or even $20) per > month to see us through to the next phase... bring it on! > > For the Libertarians... lighten up... and come down and see what is > happening and apply some enlightened self-interest...you might find > yourself pledging a one-time or multi-month contribution to make sure > the Complex makes it over the hump... makes sure it is still there > when > you want it. > > my $.02 worth. Contribute early, contribute often! > > - Steve > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080623/efb449f5/attachment.html |
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