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Lucy Mendel has committed the landmark 1,000th change to Buy It Like You Mean It’s repository of open source technology! Click the sound file to hear her speech on the subject (gotcha, Lucy.) (more…)
A bilumi workshop is when a bunch of folks get together in the same room and add their opinions and research to the knowledge of our whole community. The workshop goal is decided by the host. (more…)
Mollie, Catie, Stefan, and I have all collaborated to create these options based on the winning logo from our previous poll.
Click on the image to enlarge it… then vote for your favorite by clicking: (more…)
Click the monkey to help us choose between innovative ways to help bilumi become financially self sustainable. We are beginning a process of business planning and your input will help direct that process.
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Click on the ravens to see Aaron Donovan’s full sized image of us passing out pamphlets. Or click on the Bicycle Band to see more Somerville Arts Fest photos.
Cool, I was worried that no one would send pictures. Thanks, Aaron!
Lucy and I after the July Somerville Arts festival. In case you were wondering what we looked like after a hot afternoon of handing out fliers and dancing behind a 5 person bicycle (while wearing black feathers and sandwich board signs.)
I presented an overview of the technology to Ignite Boston 3. The best part was engaging with the crowd. People laughed at the Willy Wonka example, cheered when I said we were an an open source non-profit, and congratulated me afterwards on a great presentation.
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Eating fancy chocolate in workshop settings is becoming commonplace for me.
I’m chatting with Sherri and Lindsey as they plow through the reviews in our database, rating as they go. Not a bad way to spend my time. Actually, organizing volunteer effort can be just about the best thing ever. People are so open and happy when they finally make time to volunteer. It’s a really nice side of humanity and I’m reminded what a privilege it is to work on this project full time.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 3, 7PM
WHERE: Taza Chocolate, 561 Windsor Street, Room B-206, Somerville, MA. Free parking in lot across street.
LAUNCH: That’s right! Our technology is rolling, our user interface is manageable, our outreach is reaching, and we’re ready to celebrate! We’re asking you to use our website to review and rate the chocolate industry: so it only seems fitting to throw a party in a chocolate facility!
Our ravens were invited to hob nob with top academics at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School’s 10th conference.
I also attended the lectures (in civilian clothes), learned a lot, and made a bunch of good connections. Mark Tovey’s lecture about using accumulated data structures for world wide problem solving was particularly useful. Check out his book.
The Cambridge Science Festival invited us to host a “Sustainable Chocolate Research Workshop” last night. We used the opportunity to introduce our research guide and the new face of our website to the peeps that came to see us. Our raven friends set a fun mood while our awesome volunteers gave out samples of locally produced chocolate products and showed people how to use our site.
Our newly feathered raven puppets took the subway to a sustainability expo this weekend. The event focused on companies who are responding to consumer demand for sustainability.
This is what the MIT Entrepreneurs club looks like from the perspective of a guest presenter.
This weekend we attended the Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom’s annual conference. We met some wonderful educators and passed out free copies of our new lesson plans. We are currently working to expand those lesson plans so that they cover the unique needs of a number of different curricular needs.
Thursday, January 24th marks a new turning point for ThoughtAndMemory.org. Today the MIT Students for Global Sustainability club helped us present our system for collaborative research on socially responsible products to the MIT community. We sampled progressive chocolates, introduced ourselves, and got to work.
We recently attended the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum’s 1st Annual Entrepreneurship Fair. We met a lot of great people! We’re actively recruiting open source developers to add to our dev team as well as other volunteers to host research events at schools, markets, libraries, and activist living rooms all over!
That’s right! We rocked Union Square right along side lots of other cool food related projects at Somerville’s Project YUM festival on Saturday. Several people came up to speak with us who had already gotten excited about our project from reading our write up in the Somerville Arts Newsletter!
Shaunalynn Duffy (our Outreach Coordinator), on the right, participated in MIT’s first annual 60 second Elevator Pitch Contest last night.
Little Bear, center, congratulated Shaunalynn with a lick on the palm. Go team!
