Sporadic news
March 11th, 2009So, here’s where the LETS project is right now: we’ve had the first information meeting yesterday evening, and there were around 50 people. Among those, 30 are sure to join the initiative, and the most important success is that there are 10 volunteers who want to be in the launch team. I was right to bet that I was not the only one considering that starting a barter network was a good idea.
The next step will be to define the structure of the network (especially the legal aspects of the association), as well as the name, the ambitions, etc.
Meanwhile, there is an awful lot of work to be done in the garden to put it in its spring tracks before we have to leave for two weeks (we fly across the Atlantic to visit NYC* and Martha’s Vineyard in late April, because my brother is getting married in New England). Therefore, as far as wisemandarine.com is concerned, it’s going to be a thin dotted line for a while.
(*) we’ll be visiting Emily, Dorr and Hobs (and apparently we’ll miss Becky).
YOU’RE NOT COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO!! Wah. (But what a fun trip you will have.)
The barter network sounds incredibly interesting — I hope you write more about it — I’d love to hear details, and personalities, and items bartered and, well, all about it. Plus — garden pictures!
I have already been to San Francisco twice. I have a dream of making the trip again, by clipper, via Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Cape Horn, Valparaiso, Cartagena, Monterey, and leave by train via Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Chicago, New York, and then a steamer back to Cork, Southampton, le Havre. I’ll do that when I am very rich and I live in the XIXth century.
As for garden pictures, you are always welcome on my garden blog (have your son translate) or my flickr account.
Hmmm. I’m really late to comment here. Wish I had seen this post earlier. When you were in New England, did you, by any chance, venture close to Boston/Cambridge?