India’s largest skateboarding park isn’t in a big city, it’s in a small village in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
A sport which has long been identified with urban neighbourhoods across the world, is being used in a village in central India as a trigger for social change. Ulrike Reinhard – a German national – established a skate park in Janwar in February 2015, with the help of a few Indian and international skateboarding organisations.
The region to which the village belongs is notorious for being one of the most socially and economically backward areas of the country. Untouchability, gender inequality, illiteracy, and alcoholism are rampant here. Through the voices of Ulrike and the children of the village, the film documents how the skate park is gradually changing the social fabric of the village and addressing some of its most deep rooted issues.
Going to a WordCamp is always a great experience, because it’s easy to meet new and interesting people from the WordPress community. Like e.g. the friendly owner of Tangara Communications from Hannover who’s founded his WordPress and 3D agency 3 years ago leaving his former career as a consultant in the music industry behind.
Then you stumble upon an attendee’s beautiful sketchnotes the creator of which happens to give a beginners course for sketchnotes in Frankfurt next Saturday. In case you fall in love with sketchnotes and have more confidence in your drawing abilities than I have. But the 2nd sketchnote claims it can be learned by anyone.
Sketchnotes about WordCamp Frankfurt
Sketchnote about Sketchnotes
That happened before the 1st day’s keynote started in which Caspar Hübinger spoke about German psycho-linguistical realities and a string-intelligent (English adjective of the German word creation String-Intelligenz) version of the German WordPress translation, which is supposed to be included in the German version of WordPress 4.7. He thereby inofficially granted all German-speaking translators permission to use common sense to make translations not only gender-neutral, but also more human-friendly.
Translating freely is not an easy thing to do, but it definitely should be applied by a free and open source software like WordPress to eventually maybe even influence the German language itself. Maybe one day we will no longer blog, but wordpress about stuff. Just like we google for information and no longer search for it?
In the afternoon I went to Petya’s entertaining explanation of the remote agency toolbox she uses as an employee of Human Made and world traveler. You can feel that she likes to share stories about work and personal experiences, which is the basis for any good presentation. In the end of her presentation she spoke about mastering online communication.
In written communication among people from different cultures and backgrounds she recommends to remember the following rules:
always assume no harm is meant
it’s not personal
don’t take yourself too seriously
don’t be an asshole (kindness is a universal language)
Now it’s time to head over to the community party and meet 2 of my Twitter contacts in person for the first time and probably a couple of other new and old folks. Follow me on Twitter if you like to learn more about WordPress and the WordPress community.
Am letzten digitalen Donnerstag habe ich mich zum ersten mal darin versucht, mein bisher noch rudimentäres Wissen zum Thema Blockchain zu vermitteln. Hier die minimalistischen Slides dazu.
Seither lese ich mich noch weiter in das Thema rein, bei William Mougayar (The Business Blockchain, erschienen im Juni 2016), sowie Don und Alex Tapscott (Blockchain Revolution, erschienen im Mai 2016).
Alex Tapscott hat zudem einen äusserst kompetenten und gut verständlichen Google Talk mit dem gleichen Titel gegeben.
Sein Vater Don ist Co-Author des genannten Buches und hat am TEDSummit im Juni einen ebenso kompetenten und gut verständlichen TED Talk gegeben.
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Letzte Woche habe ich im Impact Hub mein erstes Blockchainers Meetup besucht, an dem es um Etherium und Ethereum Classic ging, eine Blockchain Applikations-Plattform.
Am Mittwoch ist Arthur Breitman von Tezos in Zug und spricht über sein Projekt. Obwohl das Blockchain Protokoll technologisch auch sehr faszinierend ist, sind vor allem die Anwendungen spannend, die in den nächsten Jahren in diesem komplett neuen Ökosystem entstehen werden.
Die Blockchain Technologie hat das Potential die komplette Verwaltung von Vermögenswerten jeglicher Art komplett neu und von Grund auf wahrhaft demokratisch und dezentralisiert zu gestalten, egal ob es sich um Grundbucheinträge, Musikalben oder digitale Währungen handelt, um nur drei von vielen weiteren Bereichen zu nennen.
