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Quick survey for skool bike programs
by Thomas Martin 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hello all: Would you mind helping me get a baseline for what other bike programs are doing? I created a survey for bike programmers to fill out. https://docs.google.com/a/pcc.edu/forms/d/1uVx8TFJwSuygUOE9NbzvXUIB_37vxmYE… Thanks! Tom Martin Bike Program Coordinator Portland Community College- Cascade Cascade Alley Portland, OR 97217

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Slack channel
by Andrew Shooner 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

I was getting email from several different shops to discuss software. I want to be able to bring other folks into that conversation when they want to, so I created a general slack team for bike collectives: bikecollectives.slack.com If you want to discuss specific stuff without spamming the email list, let me know and I'll add you. This isn't intended to replace the good discussion on the email list; it's more just for immediate collaboration, etc. -Andy Broke Spoke

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Bike Collectives Wiki Appadmin
by Jonathan Rosenbaum 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Who is the current application administrator for the Wiki? Please contact me. -Jonathan

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Bike-related calls for submissions
by Angel York 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Thought this might interest some of y'all: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eleanor Blue <eleanor.blue(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:45 PM Subject: [mcp-community] Calls for Submissions and other Microcosm news To: "mcp-community(a)googlegroups.com" <mcp-community(a)googlegroups.com> Hi Microcosm creators, We've got a couple of calls for submissions open for upcoming anthologies that I want to let you all know about, and also a few ongoing opportunities I want to remind you about. Feel free to share any of this freely! 1. If you want to try your hand at writing science fiction (only two criteria are that it involve bicycles and not be sexist), the deadline for the 4th Bikes in Space collection <http://microcosmpublishing.com/blogifesto/2015/07/call-for-submissions-bike…> was today...but I'm granting extensions through December 1st as needed. Let me know if you're thinking about writing something or want to toss ideas around. 2. If you've got something to say about bicycles and money and class (or even something only very thinly about that topic), I'm looking for reporting, how-tos, personal essays, art, and even fiction for the 2nd annual Journal of Bicycle Feminism <http://microcosmpublishing.com/blogifesto/2015/10/call-for-submissions-jour…>. (The first is out now as Cycletherapy <http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/6156/>) 3. We are always looking for Music Scene History Series <http://microcosmpublishing.com/blogifesto/2012/12/introducing-the-scene-emp…> proposals (like the 33 1/3 book series, but focused on time + place rather than on a specific album). 4. Our current public call list <http://microcosmpublishing.com/faq#submit-manuscripts> for book submissions is for sewing, cats, dogs, bees, and parenting. 5. We are distributing zines <http://microcosmpublishing.com/faq#will-you-carry-my-zine> again. All of this aside, though, if we've already worked with you we'd love to find a way to keep it going and do future projects together. Get in touch any time to talk over ideas for future work. Oh yeah, and not a call for submissions, but we are Kickstarting all of the books that come out under my Elly Blue Publishing imprint...and the latest one is live! It's our first go at YA fiction—Emily June Street's exciting steampunky sports novel, The Velocipede Races <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ellyblue/the-velocipede-races>. Check it out and please spread the word to anyone you know who likes this sort of reading. Thanks for doing what you do, Elly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Microcosm Authors and Artists" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mcp-community+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mcp-community(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mcp-community/CAP%3De01YWgAcY-rWD_vwpAv5p… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mcp-community/CAP%3De01YWgAcY-rWD_vwpAv5p…> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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CAUTION: parts storage, safety edition.
by Angel York 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

>From the minutes at my old bike collective, where they had been using double-wide filing cabinets as parts storage: - Large parts filing cabinet fell suddenly and catastrophically, *no injuries, *single most dangerous thing to happen in shop history, we are very fortunate. - *We CANNOT use double-wide cabinets ever again, *they are too potentially dangerous the way we use them. Beware of storing parts in any kind of drawers that could be top-heavy. After years of working just fine, they could spontaneously come crashing to the floor.

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Community Bike Center at Sports Stadium?
by Jason Tanzman 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Anyone have any experience with a community bike shop or bike center being developed as a part of, or connected to, a sports stadium? St. Paul recently approved - and provided property tax relief (but no direct subsudies) - the development of an 18,000 seat stadium in a mixed residential/commercial area of St. Paul. People are already talking about issues with parking and how to do bike/walk/transit promotion. I can't help but think that this would be a great opportunity to put in a bike center with retail, repair, and classes and programs. But I just haven't seen anything along these lines ever having been tried. Anyone know anything about it? Jason

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Please vote for cargo bicycles
by james bledsoe 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

A new project of the Bicycle Kitchen, Re: Ciclos is competing for a grant and the first round is an online voting deal. | | | | | | | | | | | Re:Ciclos a movement by bicycle. A new project of the Bi...Vote Yes, keep me updated on opportunities and news from Goldhirsh Foundation Tweet Copy + About Your Application Organization(s) name(s): Re:Ciclos and Bicycle Kit... | | | | View on myla2050live2015.mak... | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | please follow these links and vote for us thanks jim

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Posting to the Think Tank in English & Spanish // Publicar a Think Tank en Inglés y Español
by Lauren Warbeck 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

Hi Yall! An important thing that came up at Bike!Bike! Guadalajara is that it would be useful to post in more languages than English if you have the capacity to do so. Spanish for sure, but also....French? Portugese? ...? Not everyone who uses or wishes to use the Think Tank speaks English, but many Think Tank users speak English and Spanish and/or other languages. More languages = more inclusive! So please, translate your own posts if you can. And nothing is lost by trying your best, either. ----- [ Lo siento...Y pronto usted sabrá por qué ...] Hola a todos! El Bike!Bike! Guadalajara pasó una importante discusión. No todo el que quiere utilizar el Think Tank habla Inglés. Pero personas que utilizan el Think Tank hablan más idiomas aparte del Inglés. Si le es posible, traducir sus mensajes a otros idiomas. Todos podemos simplemente hacer todo lo posible. Más idiomas = más inclusivo! <3 <3 <3 Lauren

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Travel Equity for BikeBike
by erk magosh 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Hey y'all, I have been throwing around ideas about travel equity after our trip to Mexico. For me a citizen of the US it was easy to get down there and was very affordable. I started thinking about why that was, and how it doesn't apply to everybody. Below is some suggestions that I have come up with. Most of these suggestions would really be up to the BikeBike hosts (Detroit in 2016), but the travel fund could be something we could start easily with donations. It is a rough draft and I'm looking for feedback (there has only been 5 minutes of feedback so far). Most of these ideas would take a bit of work, but I think it would be worth it to allow as many people to participate in BikeBike as possible. let me/us know what you think, erk BikeBike Travel Equity: Suggestions to Offset Inequitable Travel Cost and Barriers Summary: In an aim to make BikeBike more inclusive we should help address travel inequities. Travel can be much harder/more expensive depending on what side of some imaginary lines a person was born on or what system they have to live in. We should encourage those with privilege to help those with less. 1. Registration: registration fees should be very malleable. Folx that can pay more should be encouraged to support folx that cannot. a. For some participants the registration fee is very cheap for all the services provided, others it may be a large expense. 2. Travel funds should be created ahead of time to help folx with Visas/other travel expenses. a. Donations or excess registration fees could create these funds. b. Example of need: A Mexican Citizen needs to pay $300 USD just to apply for a visa to the USA. If they do not get approved they do not get the money back. For a US citizen with steady work this might not seem like a huge loss, but that works out to $5,100 MEX, which could be 3 or 4 times a person’s monthly housing cost. 3. 3 meals (and snacks) a day at BikeBike. a. Eatting out is by default expensive, but if you come from a country with an unfavorable currency exchange it is even more so. Even without that exchange, some people don’t have money to blow on a luxury like eating out. b. This creates a bit more work, visiting BikeBikers should be encouraged to help cook and take any other loads off the hosts. c. An alternative may be providing access to the kitchen when meals cannot be provided.

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Re: [TheThinkTank] What do you do with your dirty rags?
by Vernon Huffman 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

We take them to a laundromat, but what we want to do is build a rag washer. It starts with a hose from tap to roof, to the bottom of a solar batch water heater, made from an old water heater tank painted black and built into a triangular box with two sides and both ends insulated and reflective and the third side glass. From the top of the water heater an insulated hose runs to an old front loading clothes washer with the motor removed. It is driven by a stationary bike with a belt around the tireless wheel. The washer sits on a pallet over an old bathtub, into which it drains. The tub has been filled with sand topped with wood chips innoculated with oyster mushrooms, which will clean pollutants out of the water. A drip line runs from the drain hole to the nearby fruit and nut trees. That's the dream...

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