BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Deborah Tien and Josh Nesbit (Relational Tech Project) DTSTART:20260603T160000Z DTEND:20260603T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260620T175214Z UID:Metagov/289 DESCRIPTION:Title: Locality-to-Locality Spreading with the Relational Tech Project\nby Deborah Tien and Josh Nesbit (Relational Tech Project) as part of Metagove rnance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nJoin us for a seminar presentation with Josh Nesbit and Deborah Tien from the Relational Tech Project all about their work on "Locality-to-Locality Spreading." These are tools to help neighbor hood stewards from around the world share\, learn\, and remix ways of buil ding community where they live. Learn more about their work in this blog a nd on the Relational Tech Project website.\n\n​In their presentation\, t hey will focus on three ways RTP is prototyping infrastructure to help wit h locality-to-locality spreading:\n\n​Relational Tech Studio is where yo u can read our library of stories of local change\, and remix tools enabli ng that change\, such as a block-level information hub in the Outer Sunset \, San Francisco\; microgrant coordination for neighborhoods in the US\; o r community supply sharing websites around the world.\n\n​Relational Tec h Watcher is a feed that scans public GitHub code repositories tagged with #relational-tech to summarize recent changes. You can access Watcher thro ugh your Studio homepage\, our updates website\, or adding to your RSS fee d.\n\n​MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard that lets AI tools you ’re already using connect to external context. Our Relational Tech MCP s erver essentially turns on a ‘relational tech mode’ for whatever AI yo u’re working with. Once you add it\, your AI is hooked up to the Studio library\, Watcher updates\, and our core practices and guiding documents.\ n\n​They ask: How can we be slow and small relational tech gardeners\, w hen there are so many other technology builders going fast and breaking th ings?\n\n​"While we might be slower and smaller as gardeners of local te ch\, we don’t start from scratch like many other builders. Instead\, we learn from other gardeners around the world\, and we build on our local re lationships\, asking friends and neighbors who already know us to try out our tech and co-create together."\n\n​We are thrilled to be hosting Josh and Deborah at Metagov Seminar!\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/289/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR