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@seachaint@hackers.townCan we get a solarpunk rival to burning man, where people congregate to permanently upgrade civic infrastructure somewhere instead? Like a convention of hippy nerds going door to door offering to install free insulation, guerilla gardening on empty lots, repairing derelict houses, running volunteer transit, hosting pop-up pay-what-you-can grocers and restaurants.. something that revels in _mattering_ instead of "leaving no trace" (but at exorbitant cost)
@seachaintWelp, that "Solarpunk Infra Buildathon Festival" notion has blown up, glad to know that resonates with other people and not just me :)
Ye should know that I'm far too Executively Defunct to organise anything resembling this so it's absolutely something one of ye will have to arrange. Pick somewhere in the EU with a no-fly route from Ireland and I might even join in 
@seachaint the problem is you need actual qualified and vetted people
Otherwise it's just like mission trips where they spend a bunch of money to fly teens with no skills to Africa to "build houses" which end up busted and terrible when they could have just given that money to locals who know what they're doing
We don't need to bus random volunteers to places to do jobs like this, we need to fund qualified people with skills to do this kind of work in their own neighborhoods. Installing insulation and repairing houses isn't something just anyone should be doing. Even if their heart is in the right place you just get that Ned Flanders house that nobody should actually live in.