<div dir="ltr">"<span style="font-size:12.8px">You have to admit, Michael, that nearly every email you've sent </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">has been a slash and burn."<br></span><br>I'm destructive? What's more destructive: criticism of corruption, or corruption?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Regards,<br>Michael Turner<br>Executive Director<br>Project Persephone<br>K-1 bldg 3F<br>7-2-6 Nishishinjuku<br>Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023<br>Tel: +81 (3) 6890-1140<br>Fax: +81 (3) 6890-1158<br>Mobile: +81 (90) 5203-8682<br><a href="mailto:turner@projectpersephone.org" target="_blank">turner@projectpersephone.org</a><br><a href="http://www.projectpersephone.org/" target="_blank">http://www.projectpersephone.org/</a><br><br>"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:57 AM, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ainut@hiwaay.net" target="_blank">ainut@hiwaay.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
You have to admit, Michael, that nearly every email you've sent <br>
<br>
<div>On 05/18/2016 11:02 AM, cole santos
wrote:has been a slash and burn.<br>
<br>
David Merchant<br>
<br>
<br>
</div><div><div class="h5">
<blockquote type="cite">
<p dir="ltr">Lol you just don't get it troll<br>
</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 18, 2016 1:03 AM, "Michael Turner"
<<a href="mailto:michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">"<span style="font-size:12.8px">Mike no one
wanted to work with you because of emails like you just
sent."<br>
</span><br>
I thought there should be more openness and oversight, and
so nobody wanted to work with me? Interesting. I hadn't
realized that openness and oversight were such unpopular
things when spending taxpayers money. Unless, of course,
you're a taxpayer. Are you?<br>
<br>
"<span style="font-size:12.8px">Since I wrote the grant, and
got the Corp formed, and followed through until the
project start, I think it's ok moraly."<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
I always assumed an education in philosophy would acquaint
a person with the difference between morals and ethics.
You learn something every day, I guess.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
<br>
<br>
</span></div>
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<div>Regards,<br>
Michael Turner<br>
Executive Director<br>
Project Persephone<br>
K-1 bldg 3F<br>
7-2-6 Nishishinjuku<br>
Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023<br>
Tel: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%283%29%206890-1140" value="+81368901140" target="_blank">+81 (3) 6890-1140</a><br>
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<br>
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looking outward together in the same direction." --
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<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:48 AM,
cole santos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cksantos85@gmail.com" target="_blank">cksantos85@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Mike no one wanted to work with you because
of emails like you just sent. We are amateurs hacking
it. Ps haesh was my project and it was somewhat a
sweetheart deal. I had to choose between a project or
a job. Since I wrote the grant, and got the Corp
formed, and followed through until the project start,
I think it's ok moraly. The other projects were all
random submissions. The principal aka jerry got
overwhelmed and didn't even really want the job. I
kinda forced it on him as I had a full time job.
Reality is not nearly as sensational as u wish.</p>
<div>
<div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 16, 2016 9:07 PM,
"Michael Turner" <<a href="mailto:michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">
<div class="gmail_extra">First things first:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
I'm interested in setting up a framework in
which every iota of effort on funded
projects can be tracked, and every penny of
spending can be recorded. I'm interested in
this because I'll need donors at some point,
and donors typically require high
transparency -- and results. I'd like to
hear from makerspace leaders who've been
successful at setting up such frameworks.<br>
<br>
Now, about the "drama":<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17,
2016 at 2:51 AM, gmc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmc@hackerspaces.org" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:gmc@hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">gmc@hackerspaces.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>Yay, drama. It's what hackers are
best at! Bye bye mailing list.<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Clearly, some disillusionment and
malaise has set in.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Hackerspaces.org? No blog update
since just about two years ago.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Interesting critique there, though:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div> <a href="https://flux.hackerspaces.org/2014/01/19/diversity-and-the-hacker-scene/" target="_blank">https://flux.hackerspaces.org/2014/01/19/diversity-and-the-hacker-scene/</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Drama will never go away permanently.
Sometimes the only way to quell drama is
with rules.<br>
<br>
If you're going to have rules, you can
try counting on ideas like legitimizing
all decisions through the rule of
relying on consensus (it always breaks
down). Or on rules set by some
"benevolent oligarchy" (the "oligarchs"
often get tired of arbitration and
moderation, and go missing.) There are a
variety of other dodges of the basic
responsibility of collective governance,
which is tedious and stressful compared
to making things.<br>
<br>
In the case of SpaceGAMBIT, the dodge
took the form of locating all authority
over spending that $500,000 in a tiny
handful of people who operated in a
pretty opaque fashion. In at least one
case, the opacity was defended by a
SpaceGAMBIT principal in terms of
DARPA's tight regulations about the
release of information. When I asked for
chapter and verse of those regulations,
there was no answer. Wait: you're saying
you got money from a government agency
that doesn't tell taxpayers the basis on
which it allows awarded organizations to
release information about how taxpayer
money is being spent? Interesting.<br>
<br>
Given the nature of the political
differences over taking money from
DARPA, I can see a reason for not
identifying winning teams when the
awards went out. It might have been
defensible as a way to protect the
awarded teams from harassment by those
who were most loudly opposed to that
money, and to what any hackerspace group
taking that money symbolized to them. <br>
<br>
The problem was: opacity could enable
sweetheart deals. Waste. Lax controls.<br>
<br>
And what do we have at the end?<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
$20,000 for an open source satellite
mission design project that apparently
never checked anything into a repo.<br>
<br>
The HAESH project, which, by some odd
coincidence, was based in Hawaii. (And
apparently on Maui.)That was
statistically unlikely, especially when
you consider that the main SpaceGAMBIT
executive exulted at one point about how
great it was to work internationally,
not just in America, and not just in his
tiny home region of -- you guessed it --
Hawaii. Maui, in fact.<br>
<br>
How about the thousands of dollars for
the open source Make-a-Space Kit? It had
a laudable goal.<br>
<br>
"The goal of this project is to complete
the content--finalize the entire kit--
and then create a turn-key online
template which a new or existing space
can use to instantiate
the online project management, assign
specific tasks to board members, track
accountability,
and effectively communicate about the
status of the activities as the space is
launched and
formed."<br>
<br>
Where is it? Dead links on the
SpaceGAMBIT site. Try to get something
back from the Wayback Machine?
Unsuccessful.<br>
<br>
How about that Asteroid Badge? <br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/CuriosityHacked/Learning/wiki/SpaceAsteroids" target="_blank">https://github.com/CuriosityHacked/Learning/wiki/SpaceAsteroids</a><br>
<br>
There's something in there that looks
like a rough draft of Make-a-Space Kit,
but certainly nothing that looks
"finalized."<br>
<br>
Thousands of dollars spent on those two
projects. And this is all there is to
show for it?<br>
<br>
It's what happens when there's no
openness or accountability, and when
money can be spent without significant
oversight by a small group of people.<br>
<br>
So, to repeat my request:<br>
<br>
I'm interested in setting up a framework
in which every iota of effort on funded
projects can be tracked, and every penny
of spending can be recorded. I'm
interested in this because I'll need
donors at some point, and donors
typically require high transparency --
and results. I'd like to hear from
makerspace leaders who've been
successful at setting up such
frameworks.<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards,<br>
Michael Turner<br>
Executive Director<br>
Project Persephone<br>
K-1 bldg 3F<br>
7-2-6 Nishishinjuku<br>
Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023<br>
Tel: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%283%29%206890-1140" value="+81368901140" target="_blank">+81
(3) 6890-1140</a><br>
Fax: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%283%29%206890-1158" value="+81368901158" target="_blank">+81
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<a href="http://www.projectpersephone.org/" target="_blank">http://www.projectpersephone.org/</a><br>
<br>
"Love does not consist in gazing at each
other, but in looking outward together
in the same direction." -- Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
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<div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span>On 16
May 2016 18:26:04 CEST, Michael
Turner <<a href="mailto:michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">
<div>
<div><br>
</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><span>On
Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:55
AM, cole santos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cksantos85@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:cksantos85@gmail.com" target="_blank">cksantos85@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Actually
we took the DarPA money
and the project was a
great success. <a href="http://Www.spacegambit.Com" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://Www.spacegambit.Com" target="_blank">Www.spacegambit.Com</a></blockquote>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>A great success for
some people, I suppose.
In a certain sense.<br>
<br>
I pick a project at
random.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><a href="http://www.spacegambit.org/satstatsim/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.spacegambit.org/satstatsim/" target="_blank">http://www.spacegambit.org/satstatsim/</a></div>
</span>
<div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span>Funding:
$20,000<br>
<br>
SpaceGAMBIT claim:
only open source
projects will be
funded.
<div><br>
</div>
</span>
<div>Reality: well, ta!
ke a
look.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://satstatsim.blogspot.jp/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://satstatsim.blogspot.jp/" target="_blank">http://satstatsim.blogspot.jp/</a></div>
<div>
<div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Excuse:
"schedules slip".
OK, but you can't
check in any code,
anywhere?</div>
<div><br>
<a href="https://code.google.com/archive/p/satstatsim/source" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://code.google.com/archive/p/satstatsim/source" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/archive/p/satstatsim/source</a><br>
<br>
At least, that's
the only repo I
could find.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>There's nothing in
it.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>It was largely
because of my concerns
about openness, clear
communication,
democratic process,
and leadership
accountability that I
decided to have
nothing further to do
with SpaceGAMBIT. This
was after feeling
enthusiastic about it
and even defending it
against what I thought
was unfair criticism.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Really, I'd prefer
to have been wrong in
my suspicions.</div>
<div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
<div>
<div>Regards,<br>
Michael Turner<br>
Executive
Director<br>
Project
Persephone<br>
K-1 bldg 3F<br>
7-2-6
Nishishinjuku<br>
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 160-0023<br>
Tel: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%283%29%206890-1140" value="+81368901140" target="_blank">+81
(3) 6890-1140</a><br>
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<br>
"Love does not
consist in
gazing at each
other, but in
looking outward
together in the
same direction."
-- Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry</div>
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On Monday, May
16, 2016,
Michael P Weber
II <<a href="mailto:michaelweberii@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:michaelweberii@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaelweberii@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On
Mon, May 16,
2016 at 3:05
AM, Michael
Turner<br>
<<a></a><a href="mailto:michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> Whether
intentional or
not, the
choice of
watercress
could be very<br>
>
space-relevant.<br>
><br>
> (1)
Biosphere II
saw the direct
participation
of the late
Roy Walford,
MD, a<br>
> pioneer
self-experimenter
in CRON
(calorie
restriction
with optimal<br>
>
nutrition) as
a strategy for
life
extension.
This research
interested the<br>
> Biosphere
II organizers
because, in
feeding
long-duration
space mission<br>
>
participants,
fewer calories
eaten means,
to a good
first
approximation,<br>
> less mass
for the
ecological
life support
system,
leading to
lower mission<br>
> cost,
etc.<br>
><br>
> (2)
Research into
how CRON
appears to
increase
lifespans (in
part by<br>
> reducing
cancer risk --
a big issue in
space travel
because of
space<br>
>
radiation)
reveals that
it's more
about protein
restriction
than about<br>
> calorie
restriction
per se.<br>
><br>
> (3)
Further
research has
suggested that
it's
specifically
reduction of<br>
>
methionine
intake that is
the main
driver of life
extension in
CRON (hence,<br>
>
presumably,
lower cancer
risk);<br>
><br>
> (4)
High-glycine
diets sop up
excess
methionine.
(To be sure:
methionine is<br>
> an
essential
amino acid;
glycine is
not. But it
seems that
with
methionine,<br>
> you can
get too much
of a good
thing.)<br>
><br>
> (5)
Watercress is
very high in
glycine, quite
low in
methionine.
Watercress<br>
> might be
ideal for
offsetting the
cancer risks
from space
radiation in<br>
>
long-duration
space
missions.<br>
><br>
> I think a
good next step
in such work
would be to
try to
optimize
watercress<br>
>
production in
an aeroponic
rather than a
hydroponic
style.
Hydroponics is<br>
> great,
highly
productive,
but ... water
is heavy.
Aeroponics can
give you<br>
> much of
the benefit of
hydroponics
but with a
fraction of
the equipment<br>
> mass.
Aeroponics
should be more
adaptable to
low-g and
microgravity<br>
>
environments
since it's not
gravity-dependent
-- it's
basically just
the<br>
>
deposition of
nutrient-enriched
mist droplets
on plant
roots.
Aeroponics may<br>
> have
gotten its
start from
NASA funding.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Michael
Turner<br>
> Executive
Director<br>
> Project
Persephone<br>
> K-1 bldg
3F<br>
> 7-2-6
Nishishinjuku<br>
>
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 160-0023<br>
> Tel: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%283%29%206890-1140" value="+81368901140" target="_blank">+81 (3) 6890-1140</a><br>
> Fax: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%283%29%206890-1158" value="+81368901158" target="_blank">+81 (3) 6890-1158</a><br>
> Mobile: <a href="tel:%2B81%20%2890%29%205203-8682" value="+819052038682" target="_blank">+81 (90) 5203-8682</a><br>
> <a></a><a href="mailto:turner@projectpersephone.org" target="_blank">turner@projectpersephone.org</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.projectpersephone.org/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.projectpersephone.org/" target="_blank">http://www.projectpersephone.org/</a><br>
><br>
> "Love
does not
consist in
gazing at each
other, but in
looking
outward<br>
> together
in the same
direction." --
Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry<br>
><br>
> On Mon,
May 16, 2016
at 4:35 PM,
Michael Turner<br>
<br>
<br>
Michael,<br>
<br>
Are you going
to take over
the list then?<br>
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