Hola compadres!
We left Bike!Bike!Columbus feeling excited about a lot of new projects and collaborations, including bikebikeZINEZINE: a web-based, de-centralized, co-operative communications tool that would fill some important gaps in how we currently communicate between our shops and cities, not to mention how we communicate as a community to the world beyond our borders.
bikebikeZINEZINE would function, to put it most simply, as a news feed that aggregated, edited, and rebroadcasted news from our de-centralized projects and geographies. Here are the main things that this was proposed to accomplish:
- Sharing and amplifying news, ideas, and wisdom!
- Lowering the barrier for finding out what's happening in other
collectives!
- Strengthening our community over distance & between conferences!
- "Mainstreaming” our content for people outside our network!
- Reinforcing how we're part of a greater movement!
- Keeping ourselves motivated and exciting other people!
At Bike!Bike! in GDL we have the chance to start things off for real and get this project rolling as a collective effort. I’m adding a workshop for us to master what we need to know to make the wheels of bikebikeZINEZINE begin to turn.
Get psyched! Turn out! Roll deep! More to come soon.
Deepest love,
Josh