@dark.sun here.

Only a day after Mapala meetup in Miass, I’ve got a call from @uralresp, who told me that there’s an interesting man nearby, and it is important to meet him. So next morning, I’ve packed a bag, and took a ride on Blablachar (p2p taxi), and traveled to the nearby city of Yekaterinburg.

Minus 25 degrees celsius (minus 13 farenheit). Cold, but what can you do?

250 kilometers later, me and @uralresp walk in Yekaterinburg towards the meeting place. Our conversations over the hour, are an intuitive stream of the system images, which are turning into a coherent whole over the week. It is an extremely strong stream of energy. SYNERGY.

Only now, when we’ve joined forces, this stream started appearing and is blowing our minds, and minds of anyone around us.

The meeting was with a programmer who is a kindred spirit. His name is Dimon, and he worked 16 months on a project for a big tourist project, and only two days ago got acquainted with blockchain. After paying him a visit, we have about ten people gathered around us, both from old and new members of the movement (sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less).

First day

As usual, there was an explosion of ideas. Synergy is a powerful thing, but it has a downside, it is hard to pull most important things from this stream of information. We know how to tackle that, but our first day was spent on discussions about Golos, Mapala and other common project systems without any practical or applied things. Today we’re all close together and it is really cool being together.

Second day

This is a discussion about the next, beta-version of our mapala.net website. Alpha is alpha, but beta should be up-to-date, secure and easy to use, built on the most modern technologies, with needs of Mapala in mind. We did not yet chose a particular technology stack, but wrote down the findings.

Third day

We got a TIPS (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) specialist involved — @arjun, who helped us to structure our stream of thoughts into something solid. TIPS is a really powerful thing, but we don’t know how to use it effectively, but now we must learn to.

Team is assembled! The project is ready to launch! Everyone is ready! I feel it! Everyone feels it! We’ll fly soon! And we did fly…

Today we’re already in Moscow, there are a lot of meetings here, both with old members of “Mapala” movement, as well as with leaders of different projects, which we could strike interesting partnerships with (which we’ll keep quiet about, for now ;-))