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I propose two initial hacker villages: one in North India, one in South India. Land is expensive, infrastructure and construction (the hard part) is cheap. #3 Japan? Canada comes later (cheap land,

Leaning on the term "hacker" requires stretching the definition a lot. There are a lot of circular dependencies here, not least of which is figuring out what exactly this mailing list is for. I think

I keep imagining a spectrum on which a new village might fall prey to outmoded ideologies. I actually think the landscape is more complex than a simple one-dimensional spectrum, with many dimensions

Arun dropped me a message yesterday mentioning that he has some thoughts but wasn't sure he wanted to post them to the list. His hesitation is that "whoever does the work will end up deciding how it

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 02:47, Steven Deobald <steven@...> wrote: [snip] > And if we build within a village, we can help each other out. :) All this sounds fair. I'll try to jump in on some of

Given that the terminology graduated to household usage surrounding the release of Windows 95 and the years of PnP failings that followed, it's understandable that the idea of plug-and-play, where the

I was chatting with Ragul about different locations for setting up shop today (mostly around land prices) and stumbled upon this while looking into the climates of different

I'm replying to the thread to give Cherry an SMTP hook (he says the groups.io web forum is broken... boo-urns). Cherry, I bet a lot of people would? be interested to hear what you have to say, if

Obviously any sensible village, town, or city will have a full-blown public library. But I'm curious what you folks would put in a curated library specifically targeting the development and

If I may add another book to this list Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies - Geoffrey West The books delves into the logarithmic scaling laws that govern

This came up today as I was thinking about something else I'll send to the list shortly: "In Praise of Idleness" - Bertrand Russell I actually don't particularly recommend the title essay. It's

I am currently trapped in a hotel in Himachal Pradesh. At present, we are on the upward slope of the First Wave of the CoVID-19 pandemic. This will be a phase of my life I look back on in a very

It's a part of everyday life in a city like Bangalore, Dust. But what's funny about getting so accustomed to living with a thin (sometimes thick) layer of black soot all over everything is that I

It wasn't actually spending time in Himachal Pradesh in the early spring that got me thinking about this, but that's probably pushed me to keep it in mind on a regular basis, since "summer" hasn't

I tweeted a thing recently about "hey, maybe owning a house is a really good idea... especially in times like these": https://twitter.com/deobald/status/1256257608614244352 SVS (for those who know

I was quite serious in the last thread when I said that fibre internet would be advantageous in a location choice. Igatpuri (the location of the U Ba Khin Vipassana Village) does have fibre internet,

Hi, Just read your email on Home Base. You kind of captured all my thoughts in the email. I am sure this is not a coincidence. I have been homeless for 9 years. And I had a small recording studio

This idea is stolen from _Age of Empires_, an old PC strategy game. At least, the name is stolen from there. In _Age of Empires_, players would build up their societies and at some point attempt to

Last email today. :) I'm curious what other folks think about important shared buildings in an early village. I've attached a draft layout that I've sketched. As it's evolved, buildings and spaces

I think there's something to be said for stuff that doesn't require a soldering gun to assemble. While I was reading through "Hackers" [1] it dawned on me that I'd never actually seen a photo of the