When I learn that the Open Lab of the University of Yale is organizing an event to fight climate change, I got super excited.
Such a famous University regrouping 12,000 brilliant students, gathering to elaborate innovative solutions, I was very enthusiastic.
Meeting a new online community means learning new tools. Projects are build with Comakery (http://www.comakery.com), a new kind of wiki, a new Discord with numerous channels to explore…
The Collabathon has been running its third session, so several team already worked on very technical solutions.
How do you measure CO2 emissions on the whole planet?
How do you standardize the effect of various actions?
The Collabathon is tackling some very technical and complex solutions.
Can we expect to be saved by the technology? I am doubting.
But I was not here to advance data recovery, I was here to promote The SEEDS community and the CLEAN PLANET eco-citizen reward program.
As I collected new contacts and learn about the different tools and prompts ( the local terminology for projects) the SEEDS community allocated a 400,000 budget to reward participating organizations.
I was very happy with this vote and I thought I will have many friends to distribute these 4,000 SEEDS reward per organization.
This is where the communication problem start.
When an unknown people pop up in a group, proposing to distribute rewards, a suspicious climate can set in.
It s not because you have been spending weeks to learn about SEEDS that you will be able to immediately transmit your enthusiasm for this fantastic new economic model.
Few people know the Telos blockchain and giving reward is at the opposite of the traditional Western culture where most people think you have to work hard to earn few cents.
So interesting discussions have been initiated with the organizers, first, then with open minded participants.
You cannot expect than someone organizing the Collabathon abruptly stop his activity to spend ten hours to learn about Seeds. People coming to find partners to develop their own specific project will not jump immediately into your proposal. Programmers may not be interested in our last financial innovation, especially when they work on the Ethereum blockchain or Hyper Ledger and you say that Telos DPOS blockchain is better, faster, more energy efficient and more scalable. A programmer who has spend 3 years working with one blockchain, who is slowly progressing on one project, is reluctant to learn another language right away.
I dreamed to incorporate 100 new organizations, 4 or5 may be closer to the reality.
I still have a lot of contact to follow up among the 40 people I met.
It is too early to made a definitive evaluation. The first time you are presenting an innovation, it is so new that most of the time, people do not answer, because they don’t have any anchor into their brain to connect this new thing that they cannot categorize. The second time they heard about SEEDS, they will probably ask few questions. It is only the third times that may be willing to join the community.
I will definitely participate to the next session of the Collabathon in six months. I still have 394,694 Seeds to distribute. SEEDS is the perfect tool to finance climate change. But no trustful relationship take time to build. Let’s continue to build our future.