TogetherTec: Saturday Roundtable

The role or job title/position of somebody helping with personal scheduling and administrative tasks is called “virtual assistant” and is often outsourced to freelancers or offers from lower-income countries like the Philippines as they are on a decent level of English (also, Tim Ferriss’ concepts around the “4-Hour Workweek” come to mind).

Jubilee Briscoe is preparing a course event series supposed to discover wants/needs between the participants, to then later potentially onboard them to a community, those who are interested. The purpose is to get people from GameA to GameB and also promote the movement.

One new project will be to build a generic system for rating attributes of generic entities, which could also power surveying and matching. Many people are interested in rating systems – would make sense to create a list of these individuals to then ask them if they would contribute money to pay the developers who are around working on similar tools already, to have them make a general solution for this problem. If no funding can be found, it’ll still be built, but much, much slower. A crowdfunding campaign might be another option to source money from the interested people in GameB with pretty low risk because the generic rating system is a tangible project/endeavor. Nick Redmark is consistently volunteering his micro-solution-building on some weekends, but other than this activity, the rating system would be a larger project with some developers full-time dedicated to it. Anyhow, the number of themes and projects currently is just exploding.

Jubilee wants to learn video editing, but it’s less about using a software tool, and instead more about finding relevant portions in the pile of video recordings.

TogetherTec: Saturday Roundtable

How to measure the satisfaction and omni-win success of a GameB project? Update on the generic rating system and database model approach to support such.

Solution Raising concept of 10.000 people each donating 10$ inspired by Barbara Sher’s TED talk and now using an outreach strategy similar to multi-level marketing is designed to have people post their wants/needs, so others can more easily help realizing these. Could be a tool, site, app, or a low-tech practice or methodology.

Discussion about profit/salary/accumulation cap and potential issues with universal basic income.