RxC March Community Call Recording & Notes
Fanny Lakoubay
March 4, 2021
Subject: March Community Call
Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Time: 12pm EST
Participants: 32 people
Location: Zoom meeting (recording available here)
Rewatch the Community Call
If you’d rather read the minutes, please scroll down.
This month we were lucky to have a lot of new faces on the call along with many chapter members.
Action Items
Let’s start first with the future before talking about the past
- Communicate more details on RadicalxChange Voice app for beta testing (Alex Randaccio)
- Invite chapter members to Discord (Angela Corpus)
- Set up an working group on AI ethics and governance (Fanny Lakoubay)
- Cross communicate between RadicalxChange and Pol.is community (Patcon)
RxC Community Updates
- David Krueger’s announcement:
- “I’ll be starting tenure-track faculty position in Machine Learning at Cambridge in the CBL group. My research focuses on Deep Learning and AI Alignment. I’d like to increase cross-pollination between RadicalXChange and the AI Alignment community. The AI Alignment community itself is sort of split into 2 camps: “near-term” and “long-term”. Despite a number of differences, both real and apparent, between RXC and AI alignment, and between the two camps, I believe all 3 communities are natural allies. Although I don’t have any specific research ideas related to RXC right now, I would be very interested in supporting research that connects RXC-adjacent ideas (and not just mechanism design!) within my research group. I am looking for students and expect to continue growing my group over the coming years.”
- Gitcoin is looking for an awesome React developer for https://fundoss.org/, a pilot matching campaign based on a democratic funding model (retweet Kevin’s tweet or reach out to him).
- Taylor Kendal is working on decentralized education solutions
- Pol.is
- Lucas Chu
- Check out the world’s first hack+policython (hackpolicy.co/), exponential tech conference, and/or the Canadian Undergrad Tech Conference organized by Lucas Chu (opportunity to speak, mentor or judge).
- Reach out to Lucas Chu for an invitation to do a quick fireside with the Harvard Economics Review, Political Review, or GenZMafia startup server
- Austin Serio is working on ShockTalk, a culturally tailored telemental healthcare for Indigenous peoples, by Indigenous peoples, and the Urban Indigenous Collective
RxC Foundation Updates
- New community project page coming up
- Submit your project needs, hire requests, etc on this form here
- Join or create a chapter
- See the current chapters here
- Contact Angela at chapters@radicalxchange.org for more information
- All chapter leads and active members invited to connect on a private Discord server
- Preview of RxC Voice using Pol.is and Quadratic Voting (contact Alex Randaccio if you are interested to be part of the beta testers, want to contribute with code or ideas). Here is an overview of the project and the Github repo
- Rewatch the panel of last week about Data Coalition Development with concrete action at the individual and community levels
- Read Matt Prewitt’s newest essay “A View Of The Future Of Our Data” on Noema
Upcoming Events
- Wednesday, March 3, 5-6pm, SHACK15 CONVERSATIONS: DATA RIGHTS, POLICY AND PRIVACY with Matt Prewitt, Loully Saney, Gil Ruiz, Erik Rind
- Friday, March 5: ONE DAY - The Conference 2021 - The road to systems change: RSVP (50% discount code for the RxC community: RADICALXCHANGE) - RxC organized panel: From grassroots to government: How we make policy change (in Taiwan)
- Next Week: Release of RadicalxChange(s) podcast with Tom Atlee - follow
- Mark your calendar for RxC Fellowship Program Demo day on April 1, 2021
Chat Transcript
00:15:42 Kevin Owocki: twitter.com/owocki
00:15:46 Kevin Owocki: kevin@gitcoin.co
00:16:17 Fanny Lakoubay: Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dc9PqcSc_o7XBzuAImUadK0FzeDSfp2lBntP4IuwUOE/edit#
00:18:17 Alex Randaccio: great to meet you Patrick!
00:29:36 David Krueger: My announcement on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidSKrueger/status/1365027759492317184
00:32:05 Kevin Owocki: I have an update + quick ask for ppl at some pt
00:32:21 patcon (he/him): Open invite — a few of us contributors to Polis project (including Divya) have been holding space for weekly open calls. W’re pretty adamantly focussed on not being tech-specific, and newcomers very welcome (though our format might break soon :) )
00:32:22 patcon (he/him): https://bit.ly/polis-calls2
00:32:34 Kevin Owocki: https://fundoss.org/
00:32:42 patcon (he/him): https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md#telephone_receiver-open-calls
00:33:11 Fanny Lakoubay: Share your needs / projects here for us to help connect you with people from the community: https://forms.gle/JqcpcAnyVsKF61LM7
00:33:27 patcon (he/him): YES OPEN COLLECTIVE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
00:33:43 patcon (he/him): Oh jeez. I thought you were gonna say they “hired a whole team” or something. Worrrrrst
00:34:53 leonerichsen: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82122165848?pwd=RmIvSzJGenZGWmtDSEdwVlNNTU5QQT09
00:35:35 leonerichsen: 8pm Berlin time
00:37:05 Fanny Lakoubay: pol.is
00:37:45 G. Angela Corpus (she/her): Two things:
(1) Discord server is forthcoming, so please stay tuned.
(2) Message us at chapters@radicalxchange.org - For your community chapter questions.
00:38:04 Kevin Owocki: Tweeted the fundoss project => https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1367163992372781057
00:38:06 Lucas Chu: Would love to have any of you speak, mentor, or judge at the world’s first hack+policython (hackpolicy.co/), exponential tech conference, and/or the Canadian Undergrad Tech Conference (http://cutc.ca)
00:38:09 Kevin Owocki: If anyone knows a great dev
00:38:37 Alex Randaccio: one of many great write ups about pol.is in practice https://blog.pol.is/uber-responds-to-vtaiwans-coherent-blended-volition-3e9b75102b9b
00:39:48 Taylor Kendal: Should get our (Colorado) governor involved in pol.is as well as maybe https://opolis.co :)
00:43:48 Fanny Lakoubay: Audrey Tang is the digital minister of Taiwan (not sure everybody knows her)
00:44:03 patcon (he/him): This is one of my fave: https://pol.is/4yy3sh84js
00:44:21 patcon (he/him): In that it’s “closed” and shareable, but still has 4 groups
00:44:38 Tom Lyons: Have to jump now I am afraid and feed the kids. @Fanny/Angela, see you in Discord. One thought on the AI topic to leave you with: is it going to take over the world, or just make us all quietly redundant? Cheers all.
00:44:44 patcon (he/him): I’ve founds conversations with up to 5 groups (though sometimes that’s an artifact to have so many)
00:44:54 Fanny Lakoubay: By Tom!
00:44:56 Fanny Lakoubay: bye
00:45:00 patcon (he/him): Later Tom!
00:45:08 G. Angela Corpus (she/her): Thanks, Tom! Will have a think on that.
00:45:39 Kevin Owocki: Gotta hop yall. ttyl
00:45:52 David Krueger: It might make sense to show some of the things that didn’t end up making it on to the ballot as well?
00:45:54 patcon (he/him): 👋🏻 Kevin
00:47:36 Lucas Chu: How does voting against and proposing solutions work again here?
00:48:02 Taylor Kendal: Slice the cat…skin the bread. It’s all good!
00:48:33 G. Angela Corpus (she/her): Lucas, go ahead and ask!
00:48:38 patcon (he/him): Haha I got a kick out of that. Collecting mangled aphorisms is kinda a hobby of mine
00:52:23 Alex Randaccio: you can find a very brief overview of RxC Voice here: https://www.radicalxchange.org/kiosk/blog/introducing-rxc-voice/
00:52:35 Jeff Doctor: NiT woot woot
00:52:52 Alex Randaccio: find the RxC Voice repo here: https://github.com/alexrandaccio/QVtool
00:54:13 Alex Randaccio: please reach out to me if you would like to contribute either with code or ideas! alex@radicalxchange.org
00:54:39 patcon (he/him): For the facilitation design angle on this polis (expansion) + curation (compression), a concept from facilitation circles is “double diamond”: https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*tqqRCM5Ba9nH55wL.png
00:55:01 patcon (he/him): So it’s phases of these sorts of periodic expansion and collapse of possibility space :)
00:55:45 Fanny Lakoubay: Recording of the livestream on data coalitions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkjow220WvM
00:55:49 patcon (he/him): To attribute fully: I heard about the above concepts first through ETBlue (involved in vTaiwan) and Audrey Tang. And really grateful to learn about prior theory :)
00:56:06 Fanny Lakoubay: Crystal Good, Enoch Liang, and Tracey Bowen
00:56:20 Alex Randaccio: this is great thanks patrick
00:56:54 patcon (he/him): Np!
00:58:48 patcon (he/him): (No worries if not needed :) )
00:59:07 patcon (he/him): (oops. Intended DM there)
00:59:20 G. Angela Corpus (she/her): Here’s something one of our panelists shared (Enoch Liang of The Data Dividend Project: https://hbr.org/2018/09/a-blueprint-for-a-better-digital-society
01:00:13 Austin Serio: here are the links for ShockTalk!
01:00:40 Austin Serio: https://urbanindigenouscollective.org/project-overview and ShockTalk.II
01:00:50 Austin Serio: *shocktalk.io sorry autocorrect!
01:01:00 patcon (he/him): 🙌🏻
01:01:05 patcon (he/him): https://www.shocktalk.io/ so clickable
01:01:19 G. Angela Corpus (she/her): Looks very cool, Austin. Thanks!
01:04:35 G. Angela Corpus (she/her): If everyone wants to connect with us on Twitter, please do and give @RadxChange a follow.
01:05:37 David Krueger: Is there existing connection between RXC and CES? https://electionscience.org/
01:06:09 Fanny Lakoubay: Wednesday, March 3, 5-6pm, SHACK15 CONVERSATIONS: DATA RIGHTS, POLICY AND PRIVACY with Matt Prewitt, Loully Saney, Gil Ruiz, Erik Rind: https://www.shack15.com/events/shack15-conversations-data-rights-part-two
01:06:18 G. Angela Corpus (she/her): Matt’s piece in Noema — an optimistic vision for the future of information and power: https://www.noemamag.com/a-view-of-the-future-of-our-data/
01:06:30 patcon (he/him): There was a mention of discord. Is that open to folks here? (Missed if there was a link)
01:07:00 Fanny Lakoubay: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-day-the-conference-2021-the-road-to-systems-change-tickets-135266954101?discount=RADICALXCHANGE
01:07:15 Fanny Lakoubay: March 5: ONE DAY - The Conference 2021 - The road to systems change: RSVP (50% discount code for the RxC community: RADICALXCHANGE) - RxC organized panel: From grassroots to government: How we make policy change (in Taiwan)
01:07:54 patcon (he/him): https://twitter.com/shuyanglin
01:08:51 G. Angela Corpus (she/her): Slowly rolling out the Discord - stay tuned for the links, but if you’re not currently with a chapter, please send me an email here: angela@radxchange.org and I’ll make sure you’ll get an invite.
01:09:05 Fanny Lakoubay: Next Week: Release of RadicalxChange(s) podcast with Tom Atlee https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radicalxchange-s/id1547525454?mc_cid=05f7d9476e&mc_eid=[UNIQID]
01:10:28 patcon (he/him): Thanks Angela :)
01:11:11 David Krueger: Thanks everyone! I hope to make it to more of these :) Don’t hesitate to reach out!
01:11:19 Lucas Chu: Want to extend an invitation to have any of you on for a quick fireside with the Harvard Economics Review, Political Review, or GenZMafia startup server (I’ll send a note from lucaschu@college.harvard.edu)
01:11:28 gretchenm.krueger: Thanks so much - I’m so glad this community is here and glad to be part of this call : )
01:12:01 Taylor Kendal: Thank you all… inspiring work as always!
01:12:08 nicholasvincent: Bye all!
Next Call
- The next community call will be Wednesday, April 7, 2021.
- Submit a topic you’d like to talk about with the Typeform form