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MAX IMPACT EP. 356 Planning the Worldβs BIGGEST Regen Festival π³π
Recorded: Oct. 2, 2023 Duration: 1:19:59Space Recording
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I don't know if you know or not, Jimmy, but you've got dead air on this end.
Dead air, you say?
That's why I came in, too.
I asked to come up because I don't hear anything.
As a speaker, as a listener, I didn't hear anything, Jimmy.
Nothing.
Okay, it was supposed to be playing the Twitter music.
Can you hear me now, though?
Only as a speaker.
Yeah, we got you now, but that Twitter music's not always consistent.
I've learned that.
There you go.
There you go.
What the hell's going on?
What the hell's going on?
Yeah.
By the way, you know how I got this Rodecaster Pro to play high-quality music into spaces?
It was actually through FOMO Head.
He's the legend who sent it all the way from America to where I was when I was in Thailand.
And that's where the inception of this event happened when I actually went there.
I met the lovely people like Lumina and Vision that I see in the audience and Paul and those guys.
So he sent me that thing, but it requires an international adapter.
And my adapter thing is broken.
And so, yeah, I thought we could rely on Twitter music today, but it did not work out that way.
Lumina, I would love it, love it, love it if you could come up.
I don't know if Paul is near you, but you are a crucial part of the event that we are planning,
which we are going to make the world's biggest regen festival.
And it's going to push and propel the regen movement forward.
So I'm super pumped for that.
Let's do an intro song.
Hopefully, y'all can hear it at a reasonably decent volume.
These beings carefully guarded an aspect of consciousness called light.
At different times, these guardians of light met and worked together in the different realms of reality.
And they designed a time when their plan would go into effect.
These beings are you.
And that time is now.
And each of you knows, in the deepest portions of your being, that you have come here for a purpose.
You are beginning to feel what may be coming.
Changemakers to maximize your positive impact in the world by leveraging the latest and greatest technologies.
With me today is the broader community of regeneration.
Let's grow.
Let's grow as we plan what will become the biggest regen festival in history.
By the way, if I cut out, that is because people are trying to call me to deliver stuff.
Hopefully, that doesn't happen again.
But we are back.
And let's grow.
We are building in public.
Friends, if you can retweet the space, bottom right in the chat.
Let's pump the algo.
Let more people know what's growing down.
And let's make it happen.
I recently saw a tweet by Jerry talking about how referring to Thailand as the land of smiles.
And I couldn't agree more.
Everyone just seems to be happy there.
It's crazy.
And, you know, as an empath who feels people's emotions pretty strongly.
It definitely, I was in a pretty good state over there.
And I think it's going to be a beautiful spot for all of us to collide.
If people can make it out, amazing.
Otherwise, we'll have a virtual component.
But.
Call me.
Partnerships.
Okay.
Do not call.
Leave it at reception.
Okay, great.
Sorry about that.
So, partnerships, super crucial.
The obvious ones are ReFi Panyang and the Green Pill chapter of Panyang.
But I also want to explore other collabos, right?
I see we got the solo punk Dao legend himself coming through here.
That would be an amazing collaboration.
I had a great call with John of ReFi Dao earlier.
Ultimately, what we want to do is we want to unite the regen movement, right?
We want to bring everyone together under one umbrella.
And you just explore ideas and, you know, impact alpha and ultimately, you know, have a great time that will lead to a lot more positive impact down the line.
If we can share the best ideas.
So, I want to explore those.
So, like we can have different categories of partnerships, right?
One could be funding partnerships that can be both in kind from people might contribute physical items to sponsorship funding to help this happen.
That could be a grant as well.
Or there's like promotional partnerships, right?
To get the word out there and invite different communities to come through.
But then finally, we have like logistical partnerships.
And this is something that I think is really, really key.
Lumina, I don't know if you're able to maybe shine some light on some of the event organizers that you've met on the ground.
Of course, you are already event organized on the ground.
But if we can find like some Thai event organizers who are already putting together like big, where that be the full moon parties that happen or the conference style events that happen around the island, then I think that'd be a really good logistical partnership as well.
Just so that everything moves really smoothly on the ground.
But let's have a bit of a brainstorm sesh, and then let's get into the nitty gritty.
And I know several people have already come forward saying they'd like to take some roles and they want to partake.
I had a great call with none other than Pranav earlier today, and he definitely wants to support the event as well, which is awesome.
Pranav played a significant role in bringing some funds to the OG Green Pill Festival over in India.
Oh snap, Rod Mushtagi is coming through. Dude, this is my great friend from Canada.
I haven't spoken with him in a minute. My brother. Get up here, Rod. I just invited you up here.
So, okay, so Rod knows me from organizing Party Well events.
We're funding water projects back in Canada for seven years of my life.
He was actually the president of the student club for some time and helped me in a very significant way.
So he knows how passionate I am about events. But it has been four years where I have not thrown a single event
because I've been very much focused on the on-the-ground impact side.
Dude, this was not expected at all. I don't even know how he heard about this.
Rod, what's up, buddy?
Hi, can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you loud and clear. Dude, what? This is so mind-blowing to see you in here.
Yeah, this is really a coincidence. I just jumped onto Twitter X just to see a post and I saw you were live.
That's awesome that you're talking about an event you're doing, man. I'm curious to hear more about it.
Yeah, me and Gene, we did host a bunch of events together through Party Well.
But yeah, man.
Yes. So we do a bunch of events and then that grew into a music festival that we did for three days called Impact Festival.
And then COVID happened, so we couldn't do physical events anymore.
We did do a digital one that reached three and a half million people online, but then just focused on the impact.
But now, to catch you up to Speed Rod, I've been very much involved in the regen movement.
So this is a movement around regeneration, specifically applying Web3 technologies from crypto to NFTs to regenerate nature in a big way.
I have my own startup called Tregens, which was voted first place in Gitcoin Climate Solutions, GR17.
And now we're wanting to really grow the movement.
When I say, like, what is Tregens doing, we're growing a movement of regenerators around the world through the most rewarding and transparent tree planting.
But it's far beyond our solutions, right?
Everyone has different solutions.
You'll see Peaceful Progress in here.
He's from a project called Solarpunk DAO, and they have something called Earth Token, which is, you know, building their values into the money from all the good things like soil and air, etc.
So they have their token that's launching soon.
We see Lumina in here, so they're actually doing, like, on the ground regen events.
It's called Green Pill, and that's, like, a greater movement.
Once you take the green pill as opposed to the blue or red pill, you're going down this rabbit hole of how regenerative economics can regenerate the world.
Crypto economics, rather.
And Jerry is taking lots of photos from impactful work, turning it into a collage, turning that into an NFT, and then selling that to raise funds for regeneration.
But, yeah, so now we're looking to throw this festival in Panyang, which is a party island, but also is a very, you know, sustainable city, people who are, like, quite spiritual and, you know, kind of aware of the world's causes.
And it's also just, like, a beautiful place where everyone is very, you know, joyous.
And that's where we're looking to converge as a movement around six months from now, which is March of next year.
So that's what we're doing.
Welcome up to the stage, Lumina.
How you doing?
How you doing?
Hello, everybody.
Yeah, I wanted to share some insights on what happened on our last party here.
Ah, yes.
Yeah, I think we didn't do the marketing part enough.
We were kind of relaxed in that sense.
Plus, what is still popular here is to spread flyers.
And we, as a sustainable project, didn't want to do that.
So we just spread the info across Telegram channels and Facebook and Twitter and whatever we could.
But we're going to think about those things on the next event, for sure.
We will create something sustainable and that will reach a lot of people.
But you were talking about organizer that you can find on the spot.
Yes, there are many.
And actually, today we got one in our team.
She loves to do organizing events.
And I hope we can collaborate good in the next month preparing for Full Moon.
And maybe she can help us with the Green Pill Festival.
Who knows?
She knows all the sports.
She knows DJs.
She knows people.
So let's see how this works.
Amazing.
Yeah, these are exactly the kind of partnerships I wanted to explore in this space.
Super cool that your Green Pill chapter is doing monthly events.
And hey, your first event is never, you know, especially of this, you know, you're doing a monthly thing.
You just kick that off.
It's never going to be as big as you want it to be.
If you consistently show up every month, those events you're going to find are going to get bigger and bigger as the word gets out and people spread through word of mouth.
So as long as you're giving people a good time, you're adding values, I'm sure you are, they're going to continuously grow over time.
And yeah, marketing, I don't think that's going to be as much of a problem, particularly if you form these marketing and promotional partnerships, etc.
People seem really, really excited about this.
We can definitely get the word out.
As Rod knows, logistics sometimes is not always my strong suit.
So finding those kind of partnerships on ground, maybe they have logistical suppliers for things you might need from stages to, I don't know, microphones and all the rest of it.
That would be a really, really great logistical partnership.
So it's cool that you have already someone in mind for that.
It's like midnight in Thailand right now. Is that a bit too late for you to invite maybe some of those other people on a space?
We could try like doing an earlier time as well, just to kind of accommodate and get some of those Thai folks more participating in these group calls.
Well, yeah, now it's after midnight. So it would be nice if it's at least 6pm Thailand time.
I don't know what is the time in your place in that period.
The American folks will be asleep, but that's fine. I think we could do like multiple, right?
Even we'll do like an earlier one for folks in that time zone.
And there's a lot of people who really want to join Max Impact who have not been able to because of the simple time thing.
So let's put, yeah, let's keep that in mind.
And if we can confirm that those folks can attend earlier, then yeah, let's do it earlier as well.
Cool. So in terms of partnerships, so there's GreenPill, there's ReFiDAO, also like Regen Network.
If you guys don't know, the term refi, which stands for regenerative finance, was originally coined by Gregory Londua, who started Regen Network.
And they're doing some really cool things around biodiversity, credit methodologies, and they, yeah, we're pioneering tokenized carbon in early days as well.
And so getting them involved, I think would be really cool too.
And yeah, so let's keep this per category.
So in terms of logistical partners on ground, obviously we'd love to collaborate with yourself, Lumina from GreenPill and also ReFiPanyang.
But yeah, you were saying as well, you know, other organizers.
Was that lady also on your team or yeah, which on ground logistical organizers you think we should try to get involved in the event?
Well, there are many. We found one Russian girl. She's quite popular DJ here.
And recently she started to make parties and events.
We are going to work with her mostly because she's also interested in crypto and Web3.
So she's kind of happy to be in the team.
But yeah, there are many organizers that can do a lot for money, but unfortunately we don't have this budget yet.
So we are working with people who are happy to work for regenerative rewards, let's say.
Right. So on that note, yeah, we will be needing to bring in some serious grant funding or sponsorship funding in order to pay the peeps, but then also growing a strong volunteer team whereby we can do things like retroactive rewards.
Like I know, for example, Solarpunk DAO is going to be allocating tree gens to give out their Earth tokens.
We're going to be giving out TGN tokens.
You know, we're also going to be applying for optimism, retroactive public goods funding and stuff like that.
And, you know, these different streams from Gitcoin, for example, we can like retroactively reward those people.
Another thing we wanted to talk about is like this is an idea that was floated before is like what if we were to have like a pool of funds and do quadratic funding QF in order to like distribute that amongst the team.
So, for example, Rod, you're probably new to this.
So let me explain what quadratic funding is super quick.
It's basically allocating a funding pool.
Let's say if you had like 20K, then that's allocated according to how people vote.
And you vote for individuals or for companies by donating at least a dollar.
And it's this equation if you go to wtfisqf.com is heavily weighted towards the number of people that contribute as opposed to the amounts that they contribute.
So the more people that donate a dollar to support someone or a company, the more that the matching will kick in for that donation kind of thing.
So we were even exploring like what if we, this is really an experiment, but if we were to do QF for like literally the team, would people donate to like fund like a staff team member, you know, like the guy who, I don't know, waits the door, does coach or any of these activities.
But that really is a bit of an experiment.
Maybe we could try it.
But I'd be curious to know what you guys think about that.
Is that a worthwhile experiment to try?
Or do you think that maybe we would have a tough time getting that influx of donations to do quadratic funding in this case?
Yo, what's happening, guys?
So I think, what's up, bro?
So first, for the quadratic funding, we need a matching pool, which is very critical.
And second, I think if you want to experiment with something like this, it could make sense to do it for the folks that we want to reward retroactively, like maybe the festival finishes and then we can nominate like a bunch of people who we think have done exceptionally well or others can nominate people.
And, and by the end of the festival, like whatever we have surplus left or whatever we've been able to collect, we put it into that pool.
And then people from the festival can just vote how they feel like.
And yeah, I think they would make sense retroactively.
But again, having that pool, matching fund pool that can get distributed is going to be key.
Also, I was listening to yes, Lumina talk before and do we have like a very rough sense?
I mean, I guess it's pretty baseless to say because we don't know what exactly we are doing with the festival.
But let's say like, I mean, maybe ballparking it a couple of days of music and a couple of days of workshops.
So like a four or five day event, like, what are the estimates in terms of how much do we need to raise?
And like, what's the basics looking like so that, you know, we can also work it backwards?
Right. Yeah, Lumina, please feel free to chime in.
And again, we are co-creating this together, right?
This is not a fully fledged out.
We're just inviting you to, to get the job done.
It's like, no, we're co-creating this together.
And I'd love to hear your perspectives on this.
I can share my view.
And that's that a great region event is kind of heavily focused on the workshops and keynote speeches and networking.
And then it culminates in an epic party celebration type of thing.
So, for example, when I was at ETH Safari.
That was exactly how it was.
So it started out as, you know, a lot of great events, just like a normal Web3 conference.
But then it ended in this amazing celebration and a really cool venue.
And and that was that was really inspiring.
And it made me want to do it in that format.
So I'm thinking like, yeah, two, three days of the type of conference type of typical Web3 events.
And then one final or maybe two days conference, one final celebration.
And then we all kind of like regroup and have some like final workshops on the final day as well.
So we're kind of like sandwiching the party towards the end.
What are your thoughts on that?
Well, I think I like more the last option when we start with workshops and presentations and all this part.
And then we have the celebration and then we still come back and finish what we didn't finish.
Yeah, I think that makes sense more.
Yes, I think it's like two days of like workshops with a bunch of on conferences and stuff like that, like baked in and then maybe like like two days.
And then the second day and we have like a music scene and then another day of music scene and then the last day, the fifth day can just be like hanging.
And like, I think because by then everybody would know everybody to a certain degree and we could just have like a free flow of jam sessions and people can decide to do what they want to and they can decide to stay for longer also if they want to.
But yeah, I think it's it's it's it would be nice if because if we are able to manage to get people from all walks of life and from all continents at Fanyan, like it would be nice to at least have like four or five days with everyone.
Otherwise, it's going to feel less.
I mean, things are just going to start warming up and then people will bounce and like, yeah, so it's it's it should be good to at least do like minimum five days, according to me, if people are going to come from all over and then two days of workshops.
Yeah, we can have a little bit of fun also, two days, two nights of music, I guess, and not overdo it so that we are not haggard the next day and still in a state to do stuff.
But yeah, this is what I'm ballparking at right now.
And let's not forget also about workshops for us, I mean, some yoga, some meditation, I don't know, maybe jujitsu, we have everything we can bring anybody, let's just make a list of activities that people will be interested in participate.
I think we can organize pretty much everything.
Love that. Absolutely. And I know Sangoboam is pretty keen to contribute some, some of her yoga related activities, and maybe those especially would be, you know, embraced on the final day, maybe even every day they have some of that, right, but definitely on the final day to kind of like ground people back down.
So it would be great. Welcome you up to stage, Syntrophic Regen. What's up, buddy? Welcome, welcome.
Right now we're kind of discussing the general formats, and we're doing a bit of a brainstorm around partnerships as well.
That's great. Hello, everybody. Very nice to be here. I'm listening to very good ideas. I'm very, like, I agree with everything you guys are saying.
I strongly, since Lumina said it, I still can't put my mind out of that. It's marketing. Marketing was the main problem or something that didn't go so well in the party you organized, as far as I understand.
So it can happen exactly here. So the idea of collectiveness has to be present in the festival somehow.
So it's like using digital, like creating a digital event as well at the same time, you know, like posting regularly about the event or even actually running just a campaign of what's happening from an account of the festival.
So, you know, like having presence digitally has to be happening as well in order to include also the digital community that won't be able to assist to the festival.
So that's where we really create power, because there's a lot of people backing this movement up from the digital community and also the ones that are lucky to travel there and have this physical community that can also, that's very important.
But we also have to mind the digital community. What are your thoughts on that?
Marco, I hope you're not vouching so strong for the digital presence of all of this, because maybe you're already thinking that you might not be coming. I hope it's not coming from that.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Of course, it's not about that. I mean, all the people that are listening to this, let's say, let's be like, maybe, I don't know, 70% won't be able to get there.
But for any reason, whatever, whatever. So it will be fair to just have a channel to follow up on what's happening with the festival, what ideas are being talked about, you know, like, be there as well. That's where the movement gets strength, in my opinion.
Yep, I think it's definitely possible to do a hybrid event. Maybe we would live stream. Actually, what I think, you know, as we were on the topic of partnerships, partnerships with other, like Ethereum event organizers, for example, like these eat Safari people.
Like one thing, so I'm building like a mega database of sponsors. So I went to every single sponsor booth at ECC in Paris, and I'm putting together a database there and like, exchanging those contacts with other folks who have their own contacts would allow us to just build this mega database.
But when you're talking about live streaming, for example, and having this like hybrid event, also eat Safari did that quite well. And they were using a specific tool to stream every single stage.
So they did that super well. And we should definitely stand on the shoulders of giants, people have tried things didn't work, tried new things, had success, definitely trying to live stream. But I think going further than a live stream to like having some form of interaction would be really cool. So having maybe like a side booth, where it's like the online community can go and just like have an actual conversation with someone who's at the event, you know what I mean?
Like having those kind of like having those kind of stations set up would definitely allow for that as well. And yeah, no, definitely we can reach a lot more people if we do the live streaming really well. And that would tie into more sponsorship opportunities potentially. So we should definitely encourage and try to encourage the broader community. And ultimately, they might be more inspired to come through next year. So definitely we should do that. Welcoming Adam up to the stage. What's going on, Adam?
Hi, Jimmy. Hi, everyone. I have a bit of experience in this kind of festival planning. So I was really interested. And I can definitely give you some tips. Because it's an absolute nightmare. Like trying to run a festival. It's highly stressful. It's highly expensive. And bringing everything all together all in one day, you'll find yourself here, you start talking about things like how much KVA can I get into this tent?
Like, you know, like, you know, and there's mud everywhere. You can't find a delivery driver. And you need comms and there's no signal. And like, it's a logistical nightmare. But you know, you can do it. I'm sure you can do it. But I would highly recommend doing what you just suggested there augmenting into someone who's already doing something else, right? So a bigger festival or a bigger outfit or a related outfit, and you can just be the kind of regen zone or whatever, you know, within it.
Because then you can just not worry about all of those things, security, access, water supply, like all the basics for festival organizing is quite expensive.
Yeah, I know, firsthand how stressful it could be. I've had many stressful experiences in my life. But throwing that three day impact festival was definitely the most. We also only had two months to do that. So definitely not doing that again. We're leaving at least six months to this, maybe even more. And maybe that's actually a topic of discussion as well. Like, should we give it more than six months, we could push it out nine months, you know, just to make sure that we do everything really, really well.
Not rushing is definitely advisable. I know everyone's super excited for this. But what do you guys think? Do you think six? Because really, it's like six to 12 is like the general guide. If you're gonna do a multi multi day festival, six to 12 months is recommended.
I think what song of home has said last time really stuck with me like it takes nine months to like put out a baby. I don't think we should try and have a premature baby in this case. And we're doing it all together.
Doing it like across continents. And yeah, man, I think it's also the way I see it, it kind of sets the stage for what's to come. Like I do see this happening annually, going forward. And it would be nice if we could I mean, it's not there's no such thing as a perfect festival, we're always going to learn a lot from this.
But at least to make sure that we take care of the basics. And don't fuck up royally and some key parts.
Yes, definitely. I like that now. He takes nine months to birth the baby. We're making a baby, ladies and gentlemen.
That's what I said last week.
Yeah, we're quoting you. We're quoting you.
It is a song of home quote.
Yeah, I was gonna get up there and say, hey, yeah, we should give it nine months. And then I came in and Adam was talking about like, being a part of something bigger. Around the nine month mark is the rainbow gathering. And I have a client calling again.
And so I might get rugged. But the rainbow gathering is a free conscious peace regenerative thing that's happening globally. It's been happening since after the Vietnam War, Vietnam vets set up and they have little camps and you could totally have a tree gen region camp there.
Yeah, I've been to a few of them. The only issue might be that there's no money to be exchanged or internet at those events. So like, it'd be quite a different experience.
Yeah, we've had several suggestions like this, like, why not just do a satellite event, right? Like, that would definitely be a million times easier. Like, for example, ETH Denver, like everyone in Web3 converges in Denver, or not everyone, obviously, but like, all the heavy hitters, and it's the biggest in the world, like doing a satellite event, there would be very easy. But it would also be less rewarding in some cases, right? It wouldn't be like an annual event that could be very easy.
It could grow and grow and grow and spark the movement. When I say the world's biggest regen festival, I don't know if it's going to be year one. But I'm envisioning 10s of 1000s of people, right? Like having a massive headlining act that really draws in a big crowd. Plus, you have this foundation of the regen community that's coming there. And we can green pill all these other people. And, you know, onboard them into into Web3, right? You can't do that with a satellite event, right? And we might not be there for year one, very possible we won't be there year one.
But it has that potential to grow and grow and grow into that, right? I think Solar Roof had the hand first, and then we'll get back to it, Karsh.
Hi, Jimmy. Yeah. Right. I think that the year out is probably about right. But I also think that having a, you know, you've made a big decision on going with a location.
What I think might help is in like birthing something also that is new, right? Because there are all kinds of festivals all the time. They all have their own character.
You know, it's something I think that you're looking for something with a, with a really special character.
And what I would be excited about is something that's transformative for the people who come.
And it's something that would, would initiate, as we say, an annual, but not an annual, because, you know, it's like, it's a party, it's a habit, it's a good thing to go and have fun with people, you know,
but rather because it's important, because we're in a world in crisis, you know, and, and we just don't want to go and party, actually, all the time, you know, it's like, come together to make a difference, really.
And I think that goes with max impact, right? So I think that's a theme, I think it's a unique theme.
And I'm, I'm wondering if it would be good, though, to have a sort of planning or trial session about six months out, and have a core team at the location, you know, looking at the unique opportunities, situations at this site,
and just kind of leaning into the process, in order that, you know, then going onward from there, the next six months out, you know, you really got something coming together with, with a team.
So that's, that's what I was thinking.
A little trial event.
Well, the Green Pill Panyang is already doing monthly events, right?
So maybe, like, six months from now, we could do, like, a bigger, bigger one, right?
Like, I would love to support, I mean, I'll be in Thailand, probably, like, start of next year, maybe sooner.
Like, I'm, I'm seriously thinking about moving there, it's likely going to happen, if we can set up our mangrove tree planting.
And so, yeah, hopefully we can support those events on the ground and help them become bigger and bigger.
And that'll also be, like, a trial for us.
But, yeah, as we were saying before, like, the safest way would be to partner with someone who's already done a big, big festival.
You're saying, like, okay, yeah, having to pay a logistical person could be a lot.
But also, maybe this could be a partnership, right?
Maybe they, you know, if, if and when it turns a profit in the future, they could, you know, get, they could get equity in that, but then also build it with us, right?
Like, partnership on the ground for someone who's already thrown a big scale festival, I think, could maybe, because ultimately, we're not doing this for money.
We're doing this to grow the movement.
And whether it makes a profit or not, that's really the metric that we're looking at is, like, can we...
Can I raise my hand?
Sorry, I can't click it.
Oh, are you, are you unable to raise your hand?
Yeah, I think peaceful...
Yeah, I'm unable to raise my hand.
Unless you're in a hurry?
Go ahead.
No, no, go ahead.
I just want to say...
Okay, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I'm imagining your hand is raised.
Okay, I'll shut up now.
Go to Utkarsh, and then we'll get straight to you.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I think just the previous point about it being a satellite event, I feel like it could make sense for other instances, but not in this case.
Like, it's high time that we also establish a mark for the ecosystem and not be seen as an ancillary.
And most of those ETH heavy events, I've got, like, Web3 natives who we definitely need, but at the same time, we kind of underestimate the whole region-ness and the whole climate angle of the space.
And I think we need to create something specific and individual for the different kinds of ecosystems that are coming together to make this regeneration movement happen.
So, definitely all in for, like, creating a standalone event this time.
And in terms of, like, yeah, it would make a lot of sense to be able to get experienced partners.
And maybe the profit-seeking is not the primary motive.
That can happen, definitely, and we should not discount it.
But just the fact that there is some long-term vision alignment.
I feel like as far as whoever we decide to, like, have partner with, which are not from the space, but they still have long-term alignment with the kind of vision that we are bringing forward, I think then we can work out the intricacies of how we partner with them.
I think that can be figured if the first is in place.
And, yeah, I would still want to circle back on the point that, like, it would be nice, even if it's a very, like, very ambiguous one, but to have a rough estimate of what we are looking at.
Because that will really help, like, put things in place.
Maybe too premature to talk about it right now.
But if we can get at it at some point, like, it will really help everyone also be able to align and channel their energies and networks into seeing how this can be made possible.
Because if we want to really execute on the vision, we really want, we have a lot of ideas in this space and we want to be able to execute upon as much as we can.
And it is going to need some resources.
So, I think that trade-off between, like, how much of the vision can we actually implement and what resources are we able to manifest, that dance, I think, probably needs to start happening soon.
Yeah, finding the right partner that is also aligned in terms of what we're trying to do as well, right?
Not giving off, like, the wrong kind of vibe.
Maybe it's, like, a large-scale sustainability festival.
I don't know if you guys know Non-Fungible Future.
She's really into the vegan stuff, but she's actually thrown a relatively big-scale sustainable festival in Thailand as well.
So, maybe that would be an interesting partnership to explore.
Okay.
I remember the Centropic Regen is vicariously raising his hand through what he said earlier.
So, let's get to Centropic, then Luminar, then back to Adam.
Go ahead, buddy.
Yeah, thank you, Jimmy.
Two things.
First thing is that, in order to know the estimates of, like, how much of investment we will require for a party of these characteristics,
first, we need to determine the characteristics of the, like, we need to know what kind of event it's going to be.
At least how much time.
You were saying maybe five days event.
I also heard that there's, like, a factor of a transformative experience has to happen in the event in order to truly be powerful.
That requires more than a day or maybe a very powerful day, you know.
For practical reasons, maybe we should aim at this or one or whatever.
It depends on, like, where people are going to be staying in case of that it's happening.
If it's going to be camping, you know, then that will require another land to use.
So if it's a day event, a one-day event, I don't know, people are traveling just to go there, maybe a three-day event will be more fair.
So then with those characteristics, then we can just set at least where is the land, you know, or the characteristics of the land that we need.
Then afterwards, we will have to design, like, the storytelling of the whole event, like, what is going to be happening in, like, in time frames or phases.
And then from there, we can just start gathering more information and also aiming for, like, converging our vision into a single, like, bullet point that we have to acquire or at least consider to start building.
And the other thing that I wanted to say, actually, was at the beginning, is that how about every time we have this goal, at the end of the goal, we have to have at least something that is for sure, you know?
And then we can start building upon that, you know, like, to keep, like, to keep growing.
I know, Brent, I think I said something that is.
Sorry?
I don't know what it is for you.
I'm asking you to repeat.
You said at the end of the call, we have to write something that is?
That is, like, that is for sure, that we have an agreement of something in order to keep building every goal and actually, like, doing it, no?
So, I know brainstorms are important.
It's important to flow ideas.
But if a baby takes nine months, then we have to start today, you know?
So, maybe arriving to agreements faster as a community and then continue, continue, continue.
That's my opinion.
Sorry for taking that.
No, I definitely appreciate your opinion.
I love that you were thinking about the story.
And also, yeah, let's have action plans, right?
Like, between this week and next week, we can each make, like, a commitment of something that we want to do, right?
Like, maybe we're looking for local partnerships.
Maybe we're looking for sponsors.
Maybe we're looking for land.
Maybe we're trying to lock in some of these key essential details.
Absolutely.
I think that would be a great once around if we could all just say.
And even if, you know, if you're not going to be super involved in the event, you could just say, hey, between now and then, I will retweet or I will, I don't know, tell one person about it.
Like, whatever it may be.
You know what I mean?
But ideally, you're making a substantial contribution because this is a community event.
It's not Tregen's running it.
It's not just the Green Pill chapter running it.
It's really, like, all of us coming together.
Like, this is the regen event.
And that's what we want it to be, is the pillar regen event that will just be there each year for us all to come together in the quadratic lands or, you know, all these different areas and stuff.
Okay, anyway, I'm going to stop talking.
Over to Lumina.
Go ahead.
Yeah, before we go any further, I think I want to change the location.
Because, look, first I started to think about, okay, how many people are there?
And then the camping, camping in Thailand.
This is almost impossible mission because of the heat and humidity.
So, it made me thinking, how about Saudi Arabia?
Because Saudi Arabia is very happy to see tourists nowadays.
They give visas very easy.
I know also a lot of organizers.
And Saudi Arabia is just thriving for events.
They're happy to see anything.
There are a lot of crypto, big crypto community over there.
I don't know about regions, but I also met somebody on the space here talking about regenerative ways.
And, I don't know, just, I think our small island can't handle this all and can't accommodate all these people.
And it's really hard to reach there, especially from the States.
I think Saudi is just, like, easy to reach and nice location.
Well, interesting for you to say that.
And, definitely still open to exploring what is the best location, going back to the drawing board there.
If it's the camping thing that, say, I don't think camping would really be feasible for anyone that's traveling in a plane, right?
Like, if you're doing a domestic event, maybe you get in a car trip, you can bring your camping gear and all the rest of it.
But, that's not really super possible if you're traveling internationally anyway.
So, it would probably have to be, like, a hotel kind of situation.
We'd have to find a comms for people.
And, Saudi Arabia is also super hot.
Maybe not every time of year.
But, actually, I'm connected with the Minister of Tourism over in Saudi Arabia because VCC and that's the one there.
So, I know they are super embracing events and would definitely support it.
Saudi is just paradise in the winter.
The weather is perfect.
And, I don't know.
I mean, in Thailand, it's also possible, but probably somewhere on the mainland, not on the island.
Even if we want to accommodate all these people in the hotels, it's always full.
How we can find the rooms for everybody?
This is a bit of a mission.
Right.
Maybe it would have to be, like, off-season, right?
Because during full moon, it gets really packed.
Everyone goes there.
Where, like, tens of thousands of people come there for full moon.
But, if it's, like, off-season, we'd probably get cheaper materials and stuff, too, right?
I don't know.
Food for thought.
Okay.
I think it was Adam.
Or was it with Coach next?
I don't know.
Go ahead, whoever it was.
Yeah, it was Adam.
Adam, go ahead.
Oh, it was Adam.
Okay, go ahead.
Yeah.
Location there.
I don't know where you're deciding to go.
But, I mean, here's my thoughts, right?
I'm just going to be selfish.
All I know is that UK has, like, some pretty good already existing festivals that are heavily, you know, committed and passionately committed to sustainability and environmental causes and have been for decades.
And it might be those types of festivals that would be good to kind of align with for a partnership and maybe stay away from the crypto stuff because it's a little bit too financial.
So, examples of that would be the big one, right, Glastonbury.
But, like, I was just then thinking, what about COP26?
I know it's not going to be announced yet, but you could do something in the same area as COP26, wherever it's going to be, you know, because, obviously, you're then persuading people of importance in that area that care about these things.
And, you know, what type of customer are you trying to attract?
That's, you know, just my thinking around that.
Interesting.
Yeah, so, we're up to COP28 now, and it's over in Dubai, end of November, start of December.
No, no, no, that was this year.
I mean, not next year.
Oh, next year, yeah.
29, I don't know where that's going to be.
I think Utkash had his hand up before, and then we'll get back to Lumina.
Yeah, just on the location bit, I do think Kofanyan is, I guess, I mean, like, we were discussing last time also that it would be, like,
we need to time it better if we are doing it over there.
We don't want to be there when, like, the whole world is also getting there.
And, like you said, that it's mainly during the full moon season, full moon times of the month, which happens to be every month.
So, it's something that needs to be timed.
And, like, just, again, putting a ballpark out there, like, best case scenario, like, for something like this, from within the movement.
Like, how many people would we anticipate?
How many at least do we want over here?
Like, at least, let's say if we're not counting the people who end up coming because it's a festival and just people from the regenerative finance space,
I am not able to anticipate a number bigger than maybe 300, 400, or am I just off the mark here?
So, you're probably about right.
In year one, like, it's never going to be massive in the first year, you know, unless some crazy miracle happens
or we get some huge act by some crazy fluke, right?
Most likely, it'll be really tight-knit.
I'm throwing these big numbers out there just because I have a lot of ambition,
and I think that that's the potential long-term as we build up.
Can I raise my hand?
Sorry.
You can raise your hand, but Lumina had the hand up first, so you're riding cue after Lumina.
Go ahead, Lumina.
No, no, go ahead.
I really, like, somebody answered my question, and I forgot what happened.
Okay.
All right.
Go ahead, Marco.
Centropic?
Sorry.
One second.
Sorry.
Okay.
A little bit caught up.
All right.
So, Oxygen and Will T are up here as well.
I haven't heard from either of you.
We'd love to hear your viewpoints.
Go ahead, Oxygen.
Awesome.
Actually, I wanted a quick question.
I just jumped in.
I'm sorry I lay here.
I don't always have the ability to jump in these.
Like, I work in the field a lot, and, like, I just don't always have reception either.
Like, I work in, like, really tough areas.
But my question here was, like, do we have, like, somewhere centralized that I could, like,
that I can keep track with you guys if I miss, not just, like, reviewing, like, the recordings.
But I've noticed that sometimes in these sessions when I do come in that some of the stuff is repeated.
And it is kind of repetitive.
But I just want to know, like, where could I go to get a full scope on what we've recovered, you know, what we've got in the mark, like, what's happening here.
Is there something, like, that we can kind of coordinate on a full scale like that?
Yeah, so people were asking, like, is there a big write-up or, like, website about this event?
Like, we were literally just this β I just decided fully that this was going to happen at some point, like, exactly seven days ago.
So it is still very much in its early infant phase, you know, early stages.
But definitely a detailed project plan should be written up and eventually a website as well.
But, like I said, like, we're co-creating this together right now.
So, you know, we're literally at the drawing board and we're co-creating and building in public.
So we're exploring all the best things.
And, yeah, but that said, I do believe some notes were taken from the last meeting.
So we can put those together as well for you.
Go ahead, Adam.
So, yeah, just from a festival organizer's point of view, because, like I said, I've done this before in music festivals and NFT festivals, one of the things you could pitch, or if you are doing partnerships, or even if you're doing your own, you're going to have to actually buy services, including waste management, security, tents, all that kind of stuff.
So try and find there being an alignment with the policies that you will need to adopt for energy, waste, security, fire, ecological policies, and try and align them with what you're doing anyway and invite, you know, people to deal with that, right?
So that's a win-win.
So, say, a local energy company or a local waste management company, you just say, right, we're doing a festival, we're going to make it ecological, and you don't need to employ your ecological kind of really expensive consultant.
We've got our own, you know, that kind of thing.
But, you know, just thinking ahead on those really boring stuff, I think it would save you a lot of money and help, you know, people get engaged with it as well, because that kind of stuff is really expensive.
And you can do it cheaper if you do it, you know, in a regen way.
Yes, see, that's another reason to not rush into an event too soon, right, is with more time, you can find these kind of partnerships for in-kind and, yeah.
Yeah, your hand was raised virtually, yeah, or you're back now?
Yes, yeah, I'm back.
Sorry about that.
Thinking about what you're saying is super true, we can just go all in for a massive event if we are not even close to know what are its implications, we need the partners, we need the place, we need to fix many things.
How about doing a little bit of room out and try to feel a roadmap on how we want to plan the whole event, you know?
I would suggest that it would be good to separate, like, to do the event in three times, you know?
Like, the first time is, like, the test event, and we just invite, like, a normal amount of people, we do the music, we do the art installation, we do whatever we decide to do.
And then we also have a day, like, in the upcoming nine months, or I don't know when, to scale up the event a little bit more.
So then the people that went to the first event knew a little bit of how it's going to be, like, in the next event, that we have more experience in doing a replay event, and then we do another event.
And then the last one is, like, the massive event, like, separating the process into three events, I don't know, mapped yearly, I don't know, but that would be also helpful.
So we can aim to really, like, key points now instead of thinking in something super big that we're not aware of how big is it going to be, or, you know, that's my opinion.
Right. Right. Rod might remember this. When we did Carnaval, which was always sold out every year, we did it three years in a row, it was, like, 500, 600 people in that, and we partnered with the Brazilian Club, and it was always a great time.
Right before that, there was that Indian, Holi, there was a Holi massive, like, festival on my university campus grounds, and so we'd always partner with them, and we had a booth at Holi.
So we would be promoting our event at their event, and that actually was a really interesting and good strategy. It was a win-win for everyone.
And that made me think, like, okay, this whole concept of satellite events, right, like, doing satellite events at all the big Web3 conferences and, like, setting those up, as you're saying, like, these smaller-scale events not only gives us that experience, but also allows us to promote the bigger one at each of those events, right?
So you'd be able to pull those people together, give them an interesting experience as a satellite event to a big Web3 conference, but then promote this mega event that's going to be, like, nine months to a year from now or something like that, you know?
We could totally do smaller-scale events in the meantime and build up the big one as well.
So, yeah, absolutely.
Oxygen?
Yeah, so I'm really digging that idea, like, so what I'm seeing is, like, we set up, okay, what I feel like is, like, super needed right now is coordination between a couple different groups.
Like, we touch so many different groups that are, like, supportive of this, right?
Not just Tregens and Regens, but Dgens and, like, all the other NFT groups right now.
Like, everybody's, like, we could kind of, like you guys were talking about, prep ourselves for the big event.
And what I see is, like, coordinate the little, the smaller groups, right, focusing on theirs, but all are part of the Tregian Festival, right, or the festival we're putting on here.
Now, because, like, I don't know if you guys saw that post that was posted.
I think Jimmy shared it where the Tregian, you know, like, is the last stage of growth in humankind.
Like, I totally love that, right?
So, kind of like that where we all focus on, like, that end goal of that final growth, but we all have our individual satellites, but we're all promoting that final event.
And then when it all comes together, everybody comes together and then makes it massive and pulls all of those groups together into the one event, says, yo, I didn't even know I was a Tregian, you know what I'm saying?
But I'm here, and this is a Tregian event, but I came with my hippos, you know what I'm saying?
Like, how did that even happen?
You know, but everybody's, everybody's by, everybody's on a good time.
I'm like, you know, so then it becomes this event that could be much larger, even from the start, and then it ties in, kind of like the MySeal network, right?
Like, it's, we got all these little satellites popping up, like the little shrimp calves, but it's, you know, underneath it's a network that's already connected, you know,
and it's just going to bring into that, that, that, that main event.
So I need to, I need to work on that modeling a bit, but, you know, that's kind of what I'm seeing.
Love that.
Can I raise my hand?
Sorry.
Yep.
Yeah, yeah, yep.
Okay, so you're in the queue after, after with Karsh.
I just pinned something from Maybe Human.
Maybe Human's a great supporter of these spaces and the broader community.
So, yeah, working with GreenPill chapters and refi DAO nodes to do satellite events at all the big crypto Web3 events around the world,
and then somehow promoting this big conference, big event through those would allow us to scale really well.
So, like, having a really close partnership with all the GreenPill and refi nodes would definitely help us make that,
because we can't throw events everywhere, right, but they literally are in all the, all these locations.
So, yeah, partnerships, partnerships.
That is the theme of today's call.
So making sure that some of these likely existing partnerships are deep and really fruitful ones for everyone involved is the way to go.
Okay, so Peaceful's next, then Subtropic, then Wealthy.
Okay, go ahead.
Yeah, so I was just probably going to say something to that extent that, like, satellite events are already being thrown right now by refi nodes and GreenPill chapters,
and it's giving us a lot of good understanding of what's happening on the ground.
And I feel like maybe we don't overshoot with this.
And just the fact that we do this just to get this community together should be enough for the first one.
Like, let's not, let's not try and probably do it for us and for the others and stuff like that probably could get a bit much,
because the fact that we're able to get GreenPill chapters and refi nodes and all the various refi projects coming in one place in itself is the first time that that would happen.
And that would be a pretty big feat because four or five days of everyone being together, like, I would be super, super pumped about what can happen after that.
Like, there is no limits to what can happen after that.
And that in itself would be a pretty, pretty big win for the whole space.
If we are able to get all these digital friends into one location for five, six days, and we're just, like, bouncing things off one another and, like, having a good time overall.
So, in terms of the scope, maybe, like, you know, like we were saying, like, 300 people.
300 people in Kofangan is probably not a big deal because that island is used to having, like, tens of thousands of people come there for, like, the full moon parties and stuff.
And 300 people could be manageable within, like, two to three resorts that are, like, closely knit.
And that would have enough space.
300 people would also let us, like, have a few good music acts during which we could open it for, like, other people to come and join and vibe with us.
Because I don't know how much the normies would want to do workshops and, like, have networking sessions with three, five people because they don't have that much context yet.
But they would be down for all the stalls that we put up and the experience centers and the sculptures and then the stages and stuff like that.
So, just trying to balance it out and in terms of scope, like, if we're able to clear it, that maybe for this time, we really meet, we set the vibe and we set the tone and the stage for what we can do maybe a little bigger the next time.
That's it for me.
Absolutely.
Syntropic, vicariously had his hand up.
Yes.
About, well, many things, Dan.
About small events, what Oxygen was saying, I think it would be a good idea.
I just put it on the table.
How about making it, of course, super small scale, but nodal.
So, we fraction the event into many pieces in nodes in the world.
So, then the people in a region, like, they get together and host the replay event in this area of the world.
And people of this region get together and host.
So, we do, like, a multi-event, maybe the same day happening all around the world in a very small scale, you know.
And then that can give super, like, a lot of awareness as well, like, tangible awareness because it's going to be parties, let's say, all around the world happening the same day because of the refi test.
And then that will create a lot of more interest in what's going to happen next, I think, than focusing in a central event.
And then after hosting these nodal events in all the world, people can really get the idea of, wow, there's going to be a massive one event this time of the year, no?
Like, that will be an idea.
And then Utkesh was saying something interesting about, yeah, the interest of outsiders of the movement, what's it going to be like?
So, it's going to be really important to include in this event, like, in the small scale event or nodal events, an onboarding area or an onboarding chapter of the event in order to also use this event to actually onboard people to the Web3 stage and the refi stage as well.
That's so fun.
Love it.
Okay.
Oxygen, go ahead, and then we will do final points on the partnership notion we put out there for this space, and we'll, I think, move into the action phase as well.
Go ahead, buddy.
All right.
Awesome.
So, like, we keep touching on, like, the fact that we have the regen community and refi community, and refi community is still focused on the fi more than the re, so, I mean, which is fine.
I'm not negating, I'm just trying to merge it better, so, like, regen community, like, regenerative farms, regenerative agriculture, like, conservationists, like, I'm, you mentioned, you know, if the locals have the capacity to house people, hotels, residencies, stuff like that.
But the regions, you know, that I know around the world are more or less loving to nomadic lifestyles and are more comfortable in nature, with nature.
You know, a five-day camping trip would be more suitable than a five-day luxury yacht, you know what I mean?
But on the other side of that, the finance coming in, that's also a lifestyle that needs to be addressed and, you know, like, catered to.
So, each, we got to look at, you know, all of the communities that we're touching, and that's why I was saying we should try to focus on how to bring all of them together and offering each one very unique and very specific grabs, right, for them.
But then how do we, how do we actually have those, like, intermingle with each other?
Kind of, what I'm saying is, like, you know, those drawings of, like, the, you know, you got the Saturn planet and then the moon and Earth, and they're spinning around.
You see all the lines connecting, and they keep spinning and keep spinning, and all of a sudden you see this flower design come out of the motion of it all.
Like, that's kind of what I'm saying, is, like, each one of those little loops is a different group of people.
And if we just try to come full circle with it, if we can, we can say what is the ultimate goal is to make these connections between all these groups and solidify it to where we're all supporting each other in this understanding of, you know, regens, refi, tregens, degens.
Like, all of these groups have, have their niche.
And as long as I think if we build to actually cater to all of them, you know, right now we're super focused on regent and tregen.
But I think if we just open it up a little bit and bring it all into center on each one's group and then see how we can connect them, step back out of all of them, see where they all combine, and then go back into another focus on how can we, like, how can we support that central aspect a little bit better to connect everybody stronger.
Does that make sense?
Kind of.
Yeah.
Lost me a little bit there.
But I get the gist of it of what you're trying to communicate around unifying people and involving the different communities.
So, yeah.
Thank you for sharing your two cents.
I think we definitely have some things to think about.
I think having some more one-on-one calls with the folks on the ground in Pangan will help us kind of solidify if we're 100% doing it there.
But I do think it has a lot, a lot of potential, you know, in terms of the vibe and a lot of people would love to go there and make this happen.
But, yeah, we should trust the local community there to see how we should best go about it and if it definitely is the best place to be.
So, those are some things.
One, okay, so between, okay, let's move to the action phase, right?
Things that we might want to work on between now and next week.
Something you might feel called to work on.
So, for me, for example, I'm compiling the list of all the sponsors that I met at ETH CC and then forming sponsorship partnerships, basically, where I'm able to, like, share that database with people.
They share me their database, their sponsor, contacts, and then happy days, we can grow this mega database, which will propel all of our events forward.
So, that's one of the things that I'm going to be doing between now and next week, as well as, obviously, yeah, also speaking with, as I said, folks on the ground to iron out some of those nitty-gritty details.
So, yeah, go ahead, Utkash.
Yeah, I was saying maybe, like, I think we've had the last session and this, and I would be down to, like, starting to create a list of all that we would want to do.
So, like, the kinds of workshops, maybe, like, and, like, just try and collate all the ideas that have been spoken about.
I think last call, there were a flurry of ideas.
So, maybe take, I think, I did hear you ask Carol to take notes.
So, if she's taken notes, I can take that and at least start compiling, like, a one-pager of all the things that we would ideally want and then, like, take it back from there in terms of what we can actually do.
Love that.
Yes, Carol did actually take notes.
I see her in the audience today as well, and I'm just taking notes again.
Another great thing that we can do is, like, download the audio from the space and then run that.
Oh, we got the thumbs up.
Amazing.
You the best, Carol.
You the freaking best.
So great for me working with amazing people.
So, that's one thing.
Also, we can download the audio and run it through Fireflies, and it'll, like, analyze and summarize as well.
So, that might additionally help if we miss something.
But, Carol's notes have been phenomenal.
So, yeah, I'll share that with you, and then, great, we can break that down of what are we trying to accomplish, work back from there, from what's feasible.
Cool.
Richard, do you feel called to do anything between now and next week?
Can be big or small.
SeΓ±or Solar Roof, we can loop-de-doop back.
Okay, maybe away from keyboard.
Syntropic Tregen.
Syntropic Regen.
I know you've already got some things that you're working on in terms of branding.
But, anything β yeah, I know β by the way, the idea of doing an awards ceremony was also Syntropic Regen's idea.
So, I think that's going to be a really cool part of this event as well, I think.
So, anything we can iron that out.
But let me throw the ball in your court.
Do you feel called to do anything between now and next week?
Yes.
Actually, well, yeah, there's this document we've been doing for a while now, Jimmy.
I had a call with Oxygen as well, and sharing him the document.
Especially, like, rough ideas based on what could a Regen festival look like.
There's an award show also included.
Like, yeah, it's a little bit β like, it's the same plan, but it's more global-oriented.
Like what I was saying before, these notes that host local parties, and then it becomes a more and more β a bigger and bigger and then a massive festival, like a transition of those things.
So, this document, I don't know, maybe the person β I will enrich it a little bit more with all the ideas I got from this call.
And then the person who's compiling everything, I can send that document and then for that person to just put it in one very nice one-pager or something like that.
Because, yeah, right now I'm a little out of a computer this week, so I will just put the key points and include that document.
And maybe we can just talk on that maybe the next call because there's β yeah, there's many cool stuff about the ReFi Award I wanted to start to base with.
But, yeah, maybe it depends on the vibe and also, like, this movement β like, this story, this party has grown with all the community points of view.
And so, yeah, that's going to be just one more point of view.
Love it.
Yeah, looking forward to that unraveling.
It's going to be a really cool part of the event.
And, yeah, so I'm going to do one final poll on the name, okay?
There were some names that were not included, like Regency Nikes.
I thought that was, like, a thing that's, you know, closed source, super open source, and that wanted to be included in the name.
Okay, so I also β okay, so we got the blessing from Irtut, finally, for the Green Pill Festival name.
And also, I think it's a really great network.
Awalky was here in the first β that we did and said he would fully support, however he can help.
So I kind of recommend people to vote for Green Pill Festival.
That's personally what I'd go for.
But ultimately, we're going to leave it up to the community.
So in the Tree Gems Telegram, which you can find a link in my bio under location, join that if you're not in there.
We'll do a final poll, and we'll go with the poll for the name of the event.
And then once we have that, we can work on branding and stuff as well down the line.
Guru, what's going on, buddy?
Hey, guys.
Just been listening to all of you, like all great ideas thrown around.
Probably just to wind it up, I think one of the things that we have to do is obviously collate data about what's been discussed so far
and then figure out what are the constraints, like if we're doing it in the location or not.
And then probably we can then prioritize on what we can do for the festival.
Another thing I was thinking of, probably maybe not for this week, but something to keep in mind maybe for next week is I think we should start forming kind of working groups
who are like in charge of different parts of this festival.
So some of the things I can think of is logistics, partnerships, workshops, music, design of the space, like promoting the event.
So, yeah, there are all these things.
And then I feel like there should be one person in charge of each working group.
And then people can join in and coordinate within themselves to figure out how much work needs to be done and so on.
So, yeah, I just wanted to add that.
Love that idea.
Pods.
Yeah, absolutely.
I know you contributed in a very, very significant way to the workshops or basically responsible for that for the festival over in India.
So, yeah, however you feel like you might want to contribute would be amazing.
And I like this idea of pods and forming these teams so that we can all contribute in teams.
That's a great idea.
So, Oxygen, do you feel called to do anything between now and next week for this?
Just now.
I was asking myself this whole time and nothing comes to mind until just now about the coordination and the teams.
I really like that idea.
Like, in my mind, I already think you guys have, like, this core management team.
You guys got this thing running.
You guys got all this organization going.
You got, like, this process that you already got laid in place, like, that you're following.
And this is just, like, one step along that sheet of paper that says this is the next step, this is the next step, this is the next step.
But I don't think that's the full case.
Like you mentioned, seven days ago was, like, the kickoff.
Well, I feel compelled to help get this organized and solidified so that it's not just a one and done.
And I think we should coordinate in some sort of project management, team management software.
That way we all can coordinate and then build this up from now until forever.
If you plan on having this become a large event in the future and then a consistent event so that we can continue this movement,
then I'm totally willing to put in my resources to get us a team and project management software as long as I can get somebody to help work with it.
Because I'm not the strongest in project management.
I mean, I understand that I can kind of help guide it.
But I need somebody to, like, really kind of jump in with that software.
So I'm willing to get us going and put some of those tools in place as long as I can get some of the administrative assistants backing me to get that other stuff actually input into the system.
Okay.
Love that you're talking about project management.
That's going to be super crucial.
I'll chat with Carol.
She's the superstar spinning many plates right now.
But maybe that could help with administrative.
But, yeah, love that.
Trello's a nice one.
Asana, also decent.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
You use Zira and Atlassian.
It's a really β that's pretty good.
I have some, though, that we pay for.
So it's got more robust stuff that we can actually use.
But, like I said, I just need to get people on it.
There you go.
Yeah, adoption of new tools is always the biggest challenge, right?
They might have a slightly cooler feature.
But is it easy for people to start using?
That's the number one thing, I think, to look at as well so that people actually use it.
Adam, do you feel called to do anything between now and next week?
Yeah, sure.
I could help with what my experience is from organizing festivals and maybe just give you some numbers.
Like, you know, how many punters are we talking about here?
Like, what's the cost?
Because I can tell you what I've done in building a festival from zero to 25,000 punters.
And I've done, like, satellite fringe events in cities as well to, like, compare it to what it might cost elsewhere, like cost per punter for things like tents and that.
But obviously, that's UK experience.
But I'd be very happy to share that with you if it's helpful because I think getting the numbers is going to be quite critical for you to then sell it to partners.
You know, they're going to be mainly interested in how many eyeballs are going to see my adverts if you're going to be doing adverts and sponsorships.
Right, yes.
Okay, that's hugely important.
Thank you so much.
Like, wow, that's an amazing experience that you have.
And, yeah, being able to get a bit of a grasp of numbers to put a rough budget in place, obviously that would have to be catered to the, you know, the tie cost structures.
But to have that rough budget in place to then work back from there and all the different partners we're looking for, hugely, hugely impactful.
So thank you so much for coming through, Adam.
Thank you for being a part of our community.
So great.
I think we know what we're going to do between now and next week.
Let's kind of put these things together.
Let's get that task management software going, Oxygen.
Let's get some rough budgets together.
I'll coordinate with the folks on ground in Thailand, and we'll try to cater it from there.
Let's form these pods, Guru, and, yeah, peaceful.
Let's map out the whole thing, of course, of what we want to have going.
Maybe I'll send you the notes from Carol, and we'll get that bowl rolling.
Thank you for coming through, everyone.
We're doing this every Monday from now on until this event happens.
If it's going to be in a year, nine months, six months, whatever it is, probably more like nine after we concluded, at least nine months.
Okay, so now we know.
It's not March.
It's not March.
I'm going to give this baby time to cook.
All right.
So, yeah, keep coming through every Monday, same time, same place.
And actually, I say same time, same place.
Tomorrow, our Twitter space is actually an hour later because it's with Ethic Hub, and they really were not able to do max impact time.
So, if you don't want to miss out on future spaces, like I said, you know, Thai people is also tough to make this time.
Best to ring the bell on my profile, not for every tweet, but for, like, there's this category where it's not every tweet, but just, like, the important ones.
Put that, and then you'll be notified when we go live next.
All right?
Much love, everybody.
Until next time, keep doing what you love, keep spreading love, and make an impact.
Peace!
