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Sometimes one must be flexible, here is part of the amazing posts that were originally herehttp://blog.urgentevoke.net/2010/05/09/manifesto-evoke-and-beyond/c...



JOSH JUDKINS

The moment when the true worldchanging potential of EVOKE first struck me was reading a post by Agent Mario from Monterrey, Mexico – which began:

Last week I decided to start an urban farm from my own. I took this decision because I thought why not? How hard it can be?
I saw an example of a mexican urban farm here in the evoke network and that motivated me to do it too. (more…)

The example he had seen was a collection of photos from the Centro de Agricultura Urbana, Romita in Mexico City, posted by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys.

To me this was a perfect example of the power of this EVOKE network we have begun. Two individuals who probably would have otherwise never connected had an impact on each others lives – with a very tangible result.

The capacity for what every EVOKE member has shared to inspire others is extraordinary. With over 19,000 people from all across the globe signed up it’s impossible to know just how much of an impact has resonated from our community, and where it will lead.

Another story from close to home: as a direct result of her involvement in EVOKE, my wife will soon be volunteering her web content and editing skills for the Open Source Washing Machine Project. She heard about them through Solar Sister, who were her ACT1 Hero, and answered their call for help.

She’ll be joining a host of other EVOKE Agents who have been donating their time and resources to organizations already making a change – thereby having an impact on the lives of those around us and the world right now.

Two months ago I wondered what our species-specific web pattern looked like. As Season 1 of EVOKE comes to a close one thing is clear – the strands of this network extend out far beyond it. They extend into the plants beginning to grow in Mario’s urban garden. They extend out into the communities we shared our EVOKE projects with. They connect out to the Social Innovators we lifted up as heroes, and then extend out again beyond them.

For me, these 10 weeks have cemented two things:

1. We are surrounded by problems which we will simply not be able to solve alone.

2. Thankfully we won’t need to – we truly can EVOKE them!



NATHANIEL FRUCHTER

Wow. What a ride EVOKE has been!

In some sense, I think that EVOKE was a learning adventure—and an experiment—for all of us. As a gamerunner, I didn’t really have much of an idea of what to expect. As a player, I didn’t know what to expect, either. Everybody learned as they went along, and look what happened! What happened really changed my expectations of what could happen within a simple online community. Here are a few highlights that I’ve taken away from the EVOKE experience.

1. The sheer number of agents that signed up to participate amazed me. As of the writing of this, we currently have roughly nineteen thousand members with about 10-20% of them categorized as truly active. For an ARG, a game, a community—that’s unprecedented.

2. I could never stopped being amazed at the amount and quality of work that was constantly being put out by agents from all over the world. As a student, it was really inspiring (and humbling) to see what others could turn out.

3. Most of the player base really took the game and its message to heart. Nowhere else will I ever see people from all over the world collaborating much like I did here.

4. The game has also influenced me, both as a student and as a member of a generation that will soon be actually responsible for the world (a scary thought, I know ). I’ve noticed myself making unconscious connections to many a thing I’ve learned on EVOKE.

5. The EVOKE experience is what you make of it. Almost everybody made something out of it. Personally, I think that’s all that really needs to be said to show the impact of the game.

So, to all of the agents on the network: remember what’s happened here. Try and take a piece of it with you. Good luck with your EVOKATIONS, and, who knows? We might see you in the future.



GENE BECKER

My wife taught me to always send a personal thank you note to someone who gives you a gift. In the last 10 weeks here, I have received gifts uncounted…but I’m going to bend her rule a little bit because I don’t know how I would write 19,290 thank you notes. If you would indulge me by pretending that this is addressed just to you:

First, thank YOU — all the agents of the EVOKE network — for your tremendous gifts of energy, intelligence, creativity and spirit that you have expressed through your gameplay. I am privileged to have been witness, participant, and occasional co-conspirator in your collective learning, sharing and Evoking. I figure the future will hinge, for better and worse, on our ability to work together as a massively multiplayer online species; EVOKE is an alpha prototype and I think we all have fast-forwarded ten years into the future with some success, don’t you? For the opportunity to be here with you in this intensive boot camp for global human innovation, I say thank you to all.

Next, I’d like to acknowledge those I’ll affectionately call the “radicals” for stirring the pot and challenging all of us to think about the hard issues of culture, politics and “doing good” in a rapidly changing world. You have both espoused and embodied a worldview that demands to be heard and reckoned with when we aspire to change the world in a positive way. I don’t always agree with your tactics, but I want to recognize your passion, your cleverness and your ideas. You know who you are, folks.

Of course an enormous thank you goes to the people that created and ran this incredible, infuriating, inspiring, exhausting, convivial, confrontational, delightful, impossible, all-consuming time suck of a life-changing, world-changing…um…game. Experience. Movement. Meditation. Community. Classroom. Laboratory. Journey of self-discovery. Yeah, all of those. Alchemy, Calida, Jane, Ken, Bob, Kiy, Nathan, fellow gamerunners & mentors, ten weeks with you was a lot, and ten years would not be enough. Gratitude all around, and if I ever catch you IRL there will be a penance of tequila shots.

Now back to catching up on my last minute quests!


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Comment by Pepin Lachance on May 12, 2010 at 10:45pm
I am sadened that I was not able to join earlier. I am so glad to read that you have had such a profoundly positive experiance here. I hope to be able to colaberate with you and people like you far into the future.
Comment by John D. Boyden on May 12, 2010 at 10:52pm
Lovely adding it to my URL Sends
Comment by Gabriel Martin on May 12, 2010 at 10:53pm
Sounds wonderful Pepin.

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