Hi Chris,
I’d like to say congratulations to your students for having such a brilliant and rare teacher. You must hear so much success stories of your past students. 
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The students are very keen for a video hangout (one of them is working on figuring out how to hook up a camera system already). I am a Business and Economics teacher. The students (as far as I know) are not skilled as app developers, but they would have some unique understanding of how and why under 20s use current Internet apps, and how they and their friends would be most likely to interact with the Safe Network in different use scenarios. They also often provide me with subtle clues and insights into some parts of the hidden “x-factor” that determines what succeeds and fails in the world of youth trends. Often this is not obvious or even visible to adults like us (who think very differently from my experience).
As an interesting side note to this, we were reading the feature article and briefing in the Feb 28th Economist magazine in Economics class this week on “Planet of the Phones”. This highlights one way the students could be useful to the MaidSafe project very well. The article presents research that “Teenagers, whose time on phones dwarfs that of their elders, are developing a social life in which face-to-face and digital forms of contact are used interchangeably and often simultaneously.” I can be almost certain that the teenagers I teach would be much more likely to use the network for social reasons first, and the practical purposes I am more interested in (such as securely storing files) as a distant second! hahaha
I know that I often find discussing topics like this with a group of interested teenagers leads to new and interesting insights that I would have not thought about on my own, and this might be where our group’s value to the project could start to be explored.
We will be ready for whatever when you are! 
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Interesting that you point that out Chris.
I’m hearing more and more about teenagers leaving facebook in favor of other social networks because their parents are now on it too and they’re not willing to share everything they want to share with their friends also with their parents (which is VERY obvious if you think about it, but as always, hindsight is 20/20).
I would be interested to hear the take your students have on that theory and if they would prefer a system where they can explicitly give access to certain people or groups.
EDIT: Forgot the link I wanted to post
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Excellent Chris. I’ll be in touch soon and I look forward to exploring the insights offered by you and your students.
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I hope someone is going to record this and post it on Youtube.
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We will @betterthantrav!
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Our shirts arrived today! Thanks team!
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Awesome guys…
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Coolest class on our wee blue dot, awesome !!
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This is the first time that I read this post “Wow what a teacher, wow what a class”. This post magical. Love you guys.
@frabrunelle I can’t remember that I ever asked for this before, but can this post please be pinned to the top? I think it will show newcomers just how classy Maidsafe is.
[quote=“dyamanaka, post:15, topic:3232”]
I must admit, your post made me aware there are so many people out there reading “everything” we write. Now I’m a little self-conscious.
[/quote] your so right sir
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I wonder, what about a most wanted app, for teenagers. All of us think we know so much, but these folks and more like them, actually do know what they need to be SAFE and why. Perhaps a poll (or an area on this site for them) of the smart folks (the teenagers) will inform the rest of us what is important for the future.
After all what we do is for these people really, we broke the current world systems and this is a chance to mend it at least a bit, so why not let them tell us and we will listen and give them exactly what they want, whatever it is.
We are intending to get to a place where we launch a new app every week or two (soon, very soon) so why not get direction from the people who will use them and grow this community fastest. I think @Viv and the app dev team would be glad of that direction. Or perhaps now I am gonna get killed again 
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Brilliant idea 
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I can discuss with @frabrunelle how we can make this happen if @ctsafe is into it of course!
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That definitely is a sweet idea and something I’d certainly be interested in finding out more about.
I think you’re gonna get killed regardless of this man. You’re outta luck
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This is worth breaking my holiday for… (just got in trouble for typing that)… Awesome photo of awesome people. I so want to hear your voices, ideas, wants too. And I’m baffled by the gestures in the second photo - please explain.
Keep up your enthusiasm, it is great inspiration for all of us. Thank you. (back to holidays… )
Hahaha! Maybe this is a good example of an area where our class might be able to help out. If there is one thing we know it is current trends in Internet memes! lol
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Yes I def need help with these, or I’ll need to ask my son! :-/
Hi @ctsafe, I’ve been with the San Francisco SAFE Pod a little while now and had some thoughts for your new Pod (congratulations, by the way!!)
A first thing is that the core dev team is very deep in dev-ing and I have found that it’s very much up to us (all the individuals of the Pods) to keep ourselves motivated and coming up with ideas.
The most important things I’ve found that we have to do are:
- Host events
- Spread the message
- Always staying up to date & improving our own knowledge about the project
- Have fun with all the new ideas & concepts!
We host Meetups (Meetup.com) regularly, (most of them make it to YouTube) where we (Usually Paige & Daniel) explain the concepts to new people through presentation and then leave it open for questions, ideas and discussion. This second part always runs late into the night, and gets very exciting because there’s never enough time for all of everybody’s questions.
Another thing that’s very rewarding is to start posting to the forums! Think about how much you value reading when someone else makes a post, because your posts will be enjoyed just as much if not more
Perhaps regular meetings with your 15-20 students, where you start off watching one of the 20 to 30 min MaidSafe YouTube videos, discuss it, then have an activity (SAFE app idea contest, polls, more discussion, show & tell about a new MaidSafe idea / article you found, etc).
Reading this thread have me a ton of ideas for activities for your Pod, so let me know if you’d like to hear any of them in detail
Love this thread by the way!
Keep it up guys!!
Privacy, Security, Freedom!!!
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yes, such works more times then any other.
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A really nice different way of thought. Just got on board and its nice to read this as the first post on the forum quite motivating
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