SustaVariety Collabs LA — Online

"SustaVariety" is short for sustainable variety. It’s variety that continues, refreshes, renews. It can make life more energizing and enjoyable. It can help people and places be more alive. The word "collabs" is short for collaborations, which could be among ourselves as a group, as well as with our friends, family, associates, neighbors, fellow citizens, etc. Let's make ourselves and Los Angeles better and more alive with SustaVariety collabs!

Los Angeles already has sustainable variety in many ways. But there is more we can do, and new things to try. Plus, our approaches should scale beyond Los Angeles, so we may influence the wider world and the future. SustaVariety can be enhanced with proximity thinking approaches (more on this below), as well as other approaches we use and/or create.

At the meetup, we’ll start with a quick intro to SustaVariety, as well as an intro to a shared situations approach to collaborating that enhances SustaVariety. (This shared situations approach is based on the proximity thinking framework.) Then we can develop and update lists of shared situations to potentially collaborate on together as a group, as well as possibly with our friends, family, associates, neighbors, fellow citizens, etc. Next, we can choose a few shared situations and start or continue collaborating, using the shared situations approach and/or other approaches as appropriate. We'll sometimes use collaboration apps, documents and websites, and if you want to access them for editing and/or commenting, you'll need Google and Facebook accounts.

Whether you attend or not, you can get involved, in small to big ways, with or without money. You can learn more about SustaVariety, and more ways to get involved, at: https://loughry.com

Suggested Proxri
Let's try no fixed prices for this meetup and our collaborative activities. Let's use ProxRewards, also called "proxri," which are part of proximity thinking and are not limited to money (see https://proxri.org). We can proxri people related to benefits we gain from them now or in the future as a result of this meetup and group, and/or related to our interactions with them in this meetup and group. For the organizer (David Loughry), the suggested minimum money proxri per meetup is at least $2 via https://loughry.com/proxri or via being a patron (getting you additional benefits) at: https://www.patreon.com/loughry

Suggested Online Course
As mentioned, SustaVariety can be enhanced with proximity thinking approaches, one of which is the shared situations approach to collaborating. To quickly start proximity thinking, and so we have some common language, take the online course "Let’s Be More Alive — Intro to ProxThink." It has a reasonable minimum proxri, and there is also a trials option for you to check it out. Learn more and sign up at: https://proxthink.thinkific.com

How We'll Meet Online
We'll use the Jitsi Meet online platform (https://meet.jit.si), which also has apps if you prefer to join via mobile or tablet. Jitsi Meet is recommended by Meetup! The meeting link will be visible once you RSVP to this meetup. If you're joining via computer, you do NOT need a special app, as Jitsi Meet works in your browser without even signing up for an account. The fully-supported browsers are Google Chrome and Chromium (+ Edge Chromium). On mobile, the Jitsi Meet app should open when you click our custom meeting link. Try to join the meeting five minutes or so early to make sure everything is working for you. The meeting link will be active and live about ten minutes early.

This meetup and these collaborative activities use the ProxThink Terms of Use (https://proxthink.com/members/about/terms-of-use.php), which boring as it is, may be the friendliest terms you've seen. Why? It's a better fit for our connected world.

I hope you'll join us!

—David Loughry