We're LIVE-STREAMING Tonight's "HCx3DP Meetup NY" w/Health Maker Lab Report!!

Synergist!

Can't join us in-person tonight?!! Well, join us online...

We're Live-Streaming this HCx3DP Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/226683275/). Here's the link:

https://youtu.be/nfxkwf0wqhY

We'll start streaming between 6:30 and 6:40 PM this evening. AND, yes, this is a "first time" effort. So, if something goes awry, link back to see if we resolved any issues.

Hope to "see you" one way or another...

Season's Best!

LAND
Organizer

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[The following was published here in the late morning of 15 December 2015.]

Season's Best, Synergist!

Hope and trust you can sort out the Holidays' chaos and make it---nonetheless---to our latest Community gathering-in TONIGHT!!

I'll be Reporting to our HCx3DP Community about our accelerating progress at new nonprofit Health Maker Lab via slide deck. And, as ever, we'll be seeking your input from the audience.

If you haven't already, please RSVP and make your donation (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/226683275/).

As planned, we're hosted tonight by John Coghlan's DUMBO Startup Lab. That's at 68 Jay, corner of Jay and Front Streets, Suite 718, in DUMBO, Brooklyn---NYC's official Digital District. We kick off at 6:30 PM and should finish up around 8:30 PM. Followed by lingering to network...

Be delighted to see you there!

LAND
Organizer

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[The following was published here 10 December 2015.]

Best of the Season, Fellow Synergist !

[Whoa...tonight I joined-in at three Holiday Parties or Meetups---hosted by key Brooklyn players of our interest and connection. These were DUMBO Startup Lab, Pensa Design and Genspace. Great fun to mix biz and pleasure, see old friends and make new ones!]

Like to get a first look at---or replay your participation in---our 28 October Meetup (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafnbF7VTw4&feature=youtu.be)? This vid---produced by our expert videographer and Community member, Marcin Kulesza---is about 100 minutes long. Screen the whole thing or catch snippets...

Find out why you should take the opportunity to participate with us in person on Tuesday, 15 December (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/226683275/) (RSVP & contribute), at DUMBO Startup Lab.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Celebrate BIG!!

LAND, Organizer
HCx3DP Meetup NY
& Founder, Health Maker Lab

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[The following was published here 3 December 2015.]

Okay, Would-Be Synergist! Yep, I'm addressing those of you---among our 200 members---who have yet to get personally involved since you "signed up" here with "HCx3DP Meetup NY."

This is still our official name...even though we've invested the last seven or eight months in a key, innovative subset of "HCx3DP..." That is "Health Maker Lab"---HML, for short.

Bear with me! In this update, I'm going to present additional (compelling!!) reasons for you to commit more of your time and attention to HML. I think in many cases, your free-will commitment likely comes down---in the main---to the appeal of our evolving strategies. And, how---despite this world full of so much choice---they complement your own interests .

Fair enough. Since some of you joined our Meetup Community, we HAVE changed our targets and readjusted our focus. Health Maker Lab is BOTH broader and narrower than HCx3DP.

Broader in that we've expanded "3DP" to Digital Fabrication---or, DigiFab. You know as well as I that tech of every kind is evolving at lightning speed. 3D Printing is an important subset of DigiFab---especially when applied to Healthcare solutions. BUT, there are effective ways and means beyond 3DP to deliver those novel and necessary answers. Especially if we're thinking "Big Tent."

Narrower in that we've drilling down to determine the most effective of our ultimate HML solutions. Those solutions that will best meet the needs of specific patient, client or recipient communities for improved health---in a larger compass of that phrase. From our HML Community to the larger local community by narrowing our "envisioning" to integrate appropriate solutions. Even if they are NOT the traditional modes of "modern" medicine.

Big Tent---

Now---as this post's title suggests---our HML operational strategy includes putting up a Big Tent and inviting disparate interests (yours!) to enter in expectation and join in our convocation successfully. At this point, we will be hard put to keep our internal HML Action Centers to eight or 10. And, to address the needs of "only" five or six external neighborhood partner or player populations.

Internally, diverse Action Centers will promote the cross-pollination of new and novel ideas. Leading to what we hope are effective hybrid solutions in Healthcare.

Externally, serving the varied needs of sometimes competing neighborhood interest groups and organizations ("Hood Hubs!") WILL add to the complexity of our interfaces, relationships and connections. Human interactions ARE usually "messy." (As Miss Frizzle of "The Magic School Bus" admonishes those who would produce scientific creativity: "Take chances; make mistakes; get messy.") We will have to inform our out-facing perspectives with common-good POVs commonly shared.

GeoPrint---

Our HML "action footprint" on the maps of our overlapping communities---our GeoPrint---are likely to be rather fluid. Especially to start. The interests of our HML Community, donors and partners and Healthcare recipients will ensure some curious GeoPrint "gerrymandering." At least until we can rationalize our efforts---from (eventually) adequate resources.

Our startup GeoPrint will (likely!) center in Brooklyn---the "Techreative" Borough. Our initial home-base will (likely!) reside in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle (BTT). That's DUMBO (the City's official "Digital District"), the Brooklyn Navy Yard (335 tech-driven startups and ramp-ups) and Downtown Brooklyn (14 higher ed institutions and 60K students). A rich stew of assets that will help us to launch successfully. (I've lived and worked in Brooklyn for over 35 years and I can vouch for its base of resources---in our pursuit of a new kind of Health.)

From the BTT, we'll (likely!) spread in Brownstone and Riparian (East River) BK and east into UltraUrban East New York and Brownsville. Neighborhoods of high health needs. NYC enjoys 55 major Healthcare facilities. The self-selected among these will act as our first Hood Hubs among equals. We are---after all---focused on Health and hospitals strive to deliver that uncommon commodity.

Donors and partners---action resources---may drive the expansion of our GeoPrint in unpredictable directions. It is possible that interested players in northern New Jersey could influence our development there---before, say, The Bronx or Staten Island. Certainly, the TriState Region is a natural GeoPrint extension for HML. After that...the world?!!

Viral Ecosystem---

Health Maker Lab is intent on prototyping its inspirations, ideas and innovations in an initial "sandbox" location. We'll play with the combinations that fascinate and foster the most promising solutions to diverse needs. The most certain possibilities are the certainty of the unexpected.

As an antidote to negative results, we will call on our Advisory Council (eventually 15 in number) of proven players. These advisors---the bases for our Action Centers---will keep us progressing appropriately to a stable ecosystem at our first HML location.

At that breakout point, we envision a kind of viral HML "reproduction" regimen will commence. Successful ways and means, models and modes and---most importantly---trained and experienced cadre will empower rapid growth (likely?) within New York City.

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These expectations will indeed require good people to achieve. Thus, we need YOU to become an active Synergist for Health Maker Lab success. Get excited; get psyched; get into action!

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Please join-in our 15 December Meetup (RSVP and contribute here) (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/226683275/). Learn more about our Health Maker Lab strategic overview in person. Come find your personal reason(s) to become an active member of our Community. Move us ahead...

Best!

LAND, Organizer
HCx3DP Meetup NY
& Founder, Health Maker Lab

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[The following was published here 2 December 2015.]

HUZZAH!

Health Maker Lab is now a New York State Nonprofit corporation. Yowza!!!

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In transitioning into a Not-for-Profit (NfP), we'll be picking up our development tempo...and, therefore, our need for "in-kind," hands-on, volunteer support.

Want to join-in the innovation on our HealthMaker "groundfloor?!" Got WordPress chops? (We're building a new HML Web site.) QuickBooks skills? (We need bookkeeping.) Media cred? (We're hot to tell the world---and all those potential donors out there---of the Healthcare solutions our Citizen Scientists will be creating...)

During our early going here, we're likely to need many different skill sets. If you're intent on helping, we're intent on having your good assistance. Reach out and tell us what you can---and/or want to---do...

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Today, we received email notification of our new "NfP" status. (According to Albany, our "Exist Date" is 19 November 2015. But, it took the Department of State nearly two more weeks to let us know...hey, we're grateful it was that quick!)

I'd like to publicly thank our Brooklyn Law School (BLS) Legal-Intern Team---ably led by Dominika Wilk---for their professional, pro bono work on HML's behalf in this NfP incorporation effort. These graduate law students work for the Community Development Clinic of BLS' CUBE (Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship) under the Directorship of Professor David Reiss.

Our next steps in this NfP process include infrastructure-building efforts---like By-Law customization and constitution of a Board of Directors and our "Advisory Council." This latter will be an official structuring of our current informal advisory team.

Further steps will include pursuit of our status as a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit via an application to the IRS. (This is the coveted class that enables donors to HML to take tax advantage of their donations.) Where NYState process took weeks, the IRS is likely to take months.

Fortunately, my Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is the Ranking Democratic Member of the Small Business Committee of the House of Representatives. I've recently participated in a roundtable on Federal "grantsmanship" organized by Ms. Velazquez. So, her local staff has already promised proactive "constituent services" in expediting our IRS NfP petition.

In the meantime, HML will nonetheless be able to legally accept NfP donations. Future IRS validation will enable retroactive donation-deductions by our givers.

Please come out to our 15 December Meetup (RSVP and contribute here) (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/226683275/). Come learn more---about what and when and where and how we're doing---in person. Come get excited!!

Best!

LAND, Organizer
HCx3DP Meetup NY
& Founder, Health Maker Lab

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[The following was published here 1 December 2015.]

Dear Synergist!

In the run-up to our 15 December Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/226683275/?), I will continue to showcase our Health Maker Lab (HML) evolutions for your understanding and benefit.

To that end, here is our latest HML Mission Statement, Revision #4. (Certainly, with more Revs to come.) Let us have your input, please!

We submitted our Nonprofit application to New York State at the start of November. We expect to receive the State's approval this month.

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Mission Statement (Revision #4):

Short Form

Health Maker Lab empowers New York City Citizen-Scientists to create healthier lifestyles, novel Healthcare solutions and better patient outcomes at their community MakerRoots---via effective, open-source tech and co-located, commingled and complementary bio/med/tech disciplines in co-tenanted LifeSciences focused, outfitted and supported Maker Spaces.

Long Form

Health Maker Lab (HML) empowers New York City Citizen-Scientists to create healthier lifestyles, novel Healthcare solutions and better patient outcomes at their community MakerRoots---via effective, open-source tech and co-located, commingled and complementary bio/med/tech disciplines in a co-tenanted LifeSciences focused, outfitted and supported Maker Spaces.

We will take a "Big Tent" approach to nurturing creativity by cross-breeding new development-models across and among Health-focused sectors. This includes the integration of HML-based Action Centers---a community of affiliations that support multi-discipline, multi-tenant, multi-service-provisioned Life Makers to interact successfully.

To begin fostering superior healthy life-styles and patient out-comes, we will establish our prototype HML in "Techreative" Brooklyn. To assure success and sustainability at our ultra-urban, neighborhood level, we will employ appropriate, open-source technology and new modes of Life Making. These latter include Health Making, Bio/Med Tech, LifeScience Entrepreneurship and Healthcare-Job Generation.

Our HML solution drivers will include:

(1) the Maker Movement ethos (DIY, DIT & DID {Do It at a Distance});

(2) positive, technology-driven disrupting and democratizing ("DisDem") today's and tomorrow's Healthcare;

(3) regular community convocations ("ComCon") of interests via physical affiliation and online connection; and

(4) new modes of tech education and enablement (e.g., hyper-search, tactile or project-based learning, just-in-time education and bespoke bootcamps).

HML seeks to assure effective integration with---and service to---its home neighborhood. To that end, we will closely collaborate with key community players and institutions---while remaining independent: physically, operationally and psychologically. These local, HML "anchor/partners" will include:

(A) healthcare facilities,

(B) economic development organizations,

(C) educational institutions,

(D) local government offices and

(E) faith-based congregations.

Going forward, Health Maker Lab will strive to build a network of interconnected Labs throughout the Five Boroughs---on the way to extending our Health Maker Lab community-system to the Tri-State Region.

Copyright Land Grant 2015.

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As we add new updates to our Event Page description, we will leave previous "posts"---for your review---serially in place below each new entry.

Best!

LAND, Organizer
HCx3DP Meetup NY
& Founder, Health Maker Lab

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[The following was published here 30 November 2015.]

Dear Synergist!

[I hope and trust your Thanksgiving was grand…however you may have celebrated it. For us---here in DUMBO---it was multi-generations, multi-nations and multi-cuisines. Turkey, yes…but roulades stuffed with mofongo and bacon and topped with spicy sour-cream/cilantro “gravy”---Yowza!]

Good for Einstein. He proclaimed that “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” With a Ph.D., what you “Pile higher & Deeper” is knowledge, NOT imagination.

(Sadly for many of those with such hard-won credentials, knowledge is now a drug on the market. Today, exponentially accelerating tech change---think the disrupting and democratizing of the Internet, Big Data, Cloud Systems, HyperSearch, JIT Edu, etc., etc.---discounts knowledge of every kind. Just ask the very over-worked and woefully underpaid Adjunct Professor---a Ph.D., of course---at your local Higher Education Institution…)

Imagination is the fuel of creativity. Creativity is the driver to wherever you may wish to go. AND, your creative engine will enable you to take others along for the ride of their lives---be they colleagues, clients or an entire class of your fellow humans.

• With Health Maker Lab (HML), we’re building a vehicle you can rocket to the stars---or, at least, your star of choice in the Constellation of HealthMaking---from our “Spaceport NYC.”

The more we work at planning and implementing our Nonprofit-in-the-making HML, the more empowering is the “Big Tent” inclusiveness concept we are using to define our HealthMaking.

Got leading-edge/bleeding-edge ideas? (From foods as meds to lifestyle “prescriptives” to high-style prosthetics to novel uses of new materials to neuro-techs to mortal-moment memoranda to…) Plan to build your starship in our sandbox. And, make sure we get it right…because you helped to make it right.

Our Tuesday, 15 December Meetup in DUMBO (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/226683275/) is Iteration 7 in our informal series of Health Maker Lab Workshops.

Please be here with us…

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AND, we're delighted that DUMBO Startup Lab is Venue-Hosting us---for the second time!---at their offices (68 Jay St., Suite 718) in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

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Best!

LAND, Organizer
HCx3DP Meetup NY
& Founder, Health Maker Lab

PS. In the next days, I'll be back here to present you with our latest iteration (Rev 3.0) of HML's Mission Statement.

PPS. As usual, at our 15 December event, we'll also be welcoming back members of our expanding HML "informal advisory team" to help us plan and advance our innovative initiative.

So, come join-in with topic leaders in health tech, HCx3DP, DigiFab, DIY bio, neuro-tech, STEAM education, HC 'preneurship, supporting professions and more---RSVP and support our Meetup via payment here (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/221214156/)and come participate!

Informal Advisory Board Members:

David Solomonoff, President, New York Chapter, Internet Society;

Jon Luongo, MS, CCLS, Child Life Specialist, Maimonides Infants & Children's Hospital;

Matt Lipschutz, Meetup Co-Organizer, Hack Manhattan;

Victor Ty, Pediatric Radiation Oncology RN at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Health Maker in LEGO Medical & LEGO 3D Medical Designs;

Oliver Medvedik, PhD., Co-Founder; Director, Scientific Programs, Genspace;

Jonathan Askin, Technology Law Professor, Founder/Director, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy (BLIP) Clinic, Brooklyn Law School. Innovation Catalyst for the Brooklyn Law Center (CUBE) for Urban Business Entrepreneurship;

Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Project Manager, Health Tech, Center for Economic Transformation, New York City Economic Development Corporation;

Aaron Roy, Head of Operations & Strategy, 3DPrinterOS, innovators in 3DP education & enterprise via the most powerful, open source, 3D Printing management platform in the world;

Conor Russomanno, Co-F & CEO of OpenBCI & Organizer of the new NeuroTechNYC Meetup;

Thor Snilsberg, Executive Director, CityScience: committed to raising the quality of science education and supporting environmental stewardship using the natural and built environments as laboratories for active learning;

Guido Gabriele, Esq., Grassi & Co. Litigation Supervisor: accountancy with multi-offices in NY State and practices in Healthcare and Technology;

Danny Cabrera, Co-Founder & CEO, BioBots: desktop 3D BioPrinters that build 3D living tissues from human cells that constitute "bio-inks."

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