vTaiwan/g0v NYC hangout

Slack context 

The purpose of this document is to make a rough plan for a hangout in NYC for anyone in the area who is eager to discuss vTaiwan and g0v process in North American context.

(Don’t be intimidated by the multi-day itinerary -- just for ideas for those in the city during that time!)

Dates (tentative)

Mon, July 10 - Saturday, July 15, 2017

RSVP

Who’s coming?

• devin
• jiangengchiou
• lizbarry
• patcon (Passport drama. Sorting. Sorted!)
• biancawylie
• Hsin, Taiwanese g0v member living in NYC
• Noel Hidalgo, BetaNYC
• -- Hannah (?) of BetaNYC facilitation?
• Joe Karaganis, American Assembly
• Matt Harder, D21

Ideas

What do we want to do?

• Viewing (and transcription) party for Fork the Government 
  • Invite...?
• Potential discussion/scheming
  • Porting vTaiwan process to Western context
  • Map similar opportunity space among jurisdictions with understand
    • USA
    • New York State
    • Canada
    • Ontario
    • Toronto (patcon)
    • NYC
    • ??? - other cities that Joe is talking with via http://americanassembly.org/cities 
  • Using vTaiwan/Pol.is processes inside the system (devon?)
  • Using vTaiwan/Pol.is processes at small scale (patcon)
  • Role of crowdsourcing in g0v

Potential Itinerary

Fri, July 14

8:45am patcon arrives in NYC via greyhound

Sat, July 15

4:00-7:00pm Rally at Trump Tower

• This isn’t really g0v-related, but I’m interested in attending if anyone else is?

Sun, July 16

Mon, July 17

Tue, July 18

6:30pm ProgHackNight @ ThoughtWorks! tickets. 

Wed, July 19

Thu, July 20

Resources

• https://refusefascism.org/event/nyc-the-trump-pence-regime-must-go/