| So here it is, the first issue of the Palomar5 newsletter. This is a great tool to keep us all updated in a way a 28@palomar5.org email was unable to. To maintain this momentum, the synchronization between Berlin, San Francisco, and all the Palomar5 people, it makes no sense in us updating you, but in you updating each other. This tool is a focused channel. Fill it with life, stories of success and failure, tell where Palomar5 points its ears, reaches its hands, spreads its wings. We're a team, let's act as such. The Berlin folks make a first step in showing it all.
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Recap - January 2010  Palomar5 in 2010
After an adventurous 2009, an intense experience for us all at the camp and more than a year of fighting to make Palomar5 happen we had to recover in December and the first part of January to summon our energies. Back to the office in January, we pimped the Berlin Hub and the beauty operations are still ongoing. But then in the last week of January it drew us to the mountains, where we reenacted the camp experience with the 6 of us trapped in a small apartment in the alps. Besides some skiing the week gave us time to reconnect to the vision of Palomar5 and led us to decide that we had to be more radical this year in order to bring Palomar5 to the next level. Many ideas were tossed around and different scenarios illustrated but we decided to give us more time to develop and also integrate, you, network partners, investors and clients more into the development process. Thus we do not want to create a rigid product and then try to sell it to investors but co-develop it together with those who understand our philosophy and can help us grow beyond our own capabilities. This week however has not changed our main pillars which are: - building up a global network of interdisciplinary innovators under 30 - creating spaces where radical experimentation can take place - and dealing with emerging topics at the fuzzy frontend of innovation that have major impact on the way our society works This means that this year there might not be one big camp as last year but various activities focused on the experimentation with different formats. We call these formats playgrounds, as we think that there must be a lot of freedom to experiment be a bit silly in the spirit of Steve Jobs: Stay hungry, stay foolish. As a consequence we are also trying to find partners that understand that good things need some time and who have at least around two years of patience and drive to be an active part of the process. Another important point is that we also want to experiment with the way we organize Palomar5 as an initiative and try to prototype what some call a networked organization. We want to abandon the classical hierarchical systems and structure P5 more as a flexible network. While we at the question of organization one of the top goals for P5 in 2010 also is to try learn more about the notion of a cultural organization that gives all the players in the network the opportunity to influence the direction and adjust it on the go. The hubs, which are the first playgrounds that we are working on, will be the basis on top of which we want to develop many more prototypes. We are looking forward to see many events in Berlin and San Francisco in the next months. Considering all the above, 2010 for us is a year to build a big framework for Palomar5, think beyond only the camp and being enablers that help you as best as we can so that you can focus on your projects and turn them into a success. We are looking forward to build something really radical together with you!
 People update
Maybe some of you have already found out that starting with this year Pippa and Tina no longer will work with us at Palomar5. We find it fair to announce this officially. Pippa left us at the end of January, as she will soon start writing her PhD in Maastricht. And since Palomar5 requires a lot of time and a strong state of mind, she decided for her PhD and not for us. Next week on the 17th of February we will organize a “Bye –Bye “ together dinner here at our office. Thank you Pippa for being one of us… we’ll cross our fingers for you.
Tina, our engaged event manager, thanks to whom we always had drinks, booze, Bionade and food during the camp and the mother of our lovely mascot Roxy, left us as well. She is now working at the Malzfabrik for the guys from Mesami, again as event manager. Thank you Tina for the patience you’ve always shown.
Hans has moved back to Maastricht where he’s finishing his studies, that’s why he is not honoring us with his presence at the moment. Since he will be a daddy soon, somewhere in April/May, we still don’t know exactly when he will join us again. We’ll keep you updated!
Jonathan, Dominik, Pippin, Simon, Mathias, Laurent and Georgi are still in the office and active Palomar5 roster.  Palomar5 goes San Francisco
Migration to the San Francisco Hub has started. Axelle, Gijs, Eddie and Sagarika have arrived in San Francisco to join Maryanna, Max and the GAFFTA crew. From the P5 Team Mathias and Pippin will follow in the first week of March. We expect as many of the P5 community to stop by there as possible, while meeting lot's of new people from GAFFTA and the bay area. The lease period of our spaces is from 1st of February until the 31st of May. This does not mean that the HUB will end after that. This time was defined together with GAFFTA as a pilot-project so that we can test if it makes sense for Palomar5 to permanently stay in San Fancisco. Hopefully we will either continue at GAFFTA or move to a new own space after the testing period. The HUB-idea was born during the camp as a first step towards long-term variations of the camp-model - besides providing a new and international basis for the projects to grow on. If we really want to shake and bake, we need to reach more people. Let's face it, Europe may think it's the cradle of history, but there's more to life on earth! In San Francisco we also want to look for partners that are willing to take bigger risks, to share their network with us and help Palomar5 develop and grow. The point of San Francisco is to enter a whole new ball game on the level of the projects and of P5 as a whole.  DTAG Meeting
Once again it was our pleasure to have a meeting with Deutsche Telekom in Bonn. It included a feedback session with a round of experts, that were involved during the Camp. Jonathan and Dominik listened closely to their points of view regarding the Camp. Everybody really loved the creative energy and atmosphere, some had the opinion, that more structure would have been useful from time to time and some still didn't understand the whole concept behind but all were really interested and wanted to go on one way or the other. The most important outcome of the meeting was that DT confirmed, what C. Schläffer already announced last year: they will partly sponsor Palomar5 again this year, if there is at least one other company involved as a sponsor. Also we didn't negotiate the details so far, this is of course a good thing, because as you might know, C. Schläffer leaves DT in March and we were not 100% sure, if his "promise" will also count in a DT without him. Btw. we still don't know what company he'll go to...  Palomar5 at Silicon Sentier
Axelle, Magalie, Dominik and Simon presented Palomar5 at "La Pipinière" on the 3rd of february in Paris. "La Pipinière" is a part of Silicon Sentier. They do a lot of events, have co-working spaces and will probably have something like a residency program in the near future. Round about 70 people came to listen and discuss, another 250 joined via live stream. We made some nice contacts and got interesting ideas and will work together with Silicon Sentier to help each other. We try to go on with the discussion here.  Palomar5 at Brainstore
Chris, Basti, Axelle, Loek, Jessie and Jay had a micro reunion at Brainstore mid of January. The purpose was to go there and act as guides for the future (through an exhibition) on the first day and participate in their brainstorming method the second. We ended up facilitating brainstorming sessions on the first day, we rocked it and they were happy. Going through process showed us how much organisations are willing to pay for such experiences, and also what flaws there are in existing "canned creativity" systems. In short big opportunities for Inspire Bureau/P5 arse kicking team/Punk/Show me love however we choose to brand it. Palomar5 at Symposium für Systemdesign
Jonathan went to present Palomar5's approach on designing creative collaborative spaces at the Symposium for Systemdesign in Kassel. Besides many interesting questions, we got good recommendations of related projects & initiatives to connect with. To Culture with Love.Management, Czech Republic
Jonathan hosted an interactive work- and playshop on how to deal with creative people at the "To culture with Love.Management"-Workshop, taking place this weekend in BRNO, czech republic. It was good to spread the Palomar5-spirit also to the eastern part of Europe where most of the countries haven't heard about us.  Open Design Workshop
OpenDesign Work-/ Playshop @betahaus
Pictures (by the betahaus network) As part of the Social Media Week, that took place in 6 cities around the globe from 1st to 5th of February, an amazing team powered by Jay, Chris and Mendel, showed what is possible and pushed the boundaries as usually with a cooking station for bioplastics, 3D-printing makerbot by bausteln, laZzercutter and so much more fun stuff. In a very creative and relaxed atmosphere people experimented with new materials, built sticky, reusable plastic post-its, lamps out of bottles, moving toys and so much more, all in the spirit of "Delivered in Beta". Coverage in Make magazine (here). Gabriel Shalom also created a great "immediated" documentary of the event and the importance of Open Innovation (here).  I AM DISPLAY goes Fusion
"I Am Display" has had a fantasic premiere and caused many positive reactions at this years Club Transmediale in Berlin. The installation will continue to be shown in the exhibition "Esemplasticism: The Truth is a Compromise" until the end of the month. Furthermore "I Am Display" has been invited to legendary Fusion Festival where it will be exhibited on the slope of a former aircraft-hangar end of June. The Display2000 team has received several other requests from festivals and will try to keep exhibiting at high quality events while looking for funding to develop the display's technology and experiment with new concepts.  Palomar5 at transmediale
After much deliberation and procrastination of what to do at transmediale, we decided that the best thing to do would be to just rock up with a load of tools, cushions, Talk to Me Bubbles, and friends. Chris rocked the Bioplastics, Philip Steffan brought the MakerBot, Jessie improvised a workshop on MS paint, Laurent showed his light graffiti stuff and Vali spent some time sparking conversations - which resulted in him chatting up some hot Chinese girls. Meanwhile I was wrapped in plastic sheet inviting people to draw on me. We had good fun, everybody who showed up enjoyed it and in the words of the organiser we "rocked".  Space Camp
Camp participant Kosta has been invited by the Telekom Entrepreneurship Program to Berlin to further discuss of how they can support the Human Right Initiative's next steps. He could secure some funding for further research activities. It's still a long road to go, but we're coming a step closer to the big vision: offer the human mankind broadband internet access basically for free.  Palomar5 in german TV
Palomar5 has been part of a TV broadcast called Digital Natives on 3Sat. One of the main protagonists is Basti! It's in german but if you want to watch it you can find it here.  Palomar5 - The movie
Most of you have probably discovered it on our website already, but if not make sure you check out our 60-min documentary about the Palomar5 camp. It can be watched in HD quality for free here. Props go out to our filmmaker Patricia Günther again who spent an extensive amount of time on the editing.  Geolocation
On the right side of this newsletter you'll find the Gelolocation category showing the exact positions of the Palomar5 members. This makes it easier for the 28 fellows to get track of each other, maybe spontaneously meet each other or forward interesting contacts in the respective areas.  @palomar5-addresses
Concerning the @palomar5-emails, if you're interested in having one, please contact Mathias (mh@palomar5.org). He'll set it up asap. But please use the email adresses wisely and everytime in the spirit of Palomar5.
Upcoming - February 2010 Palomar5 at WDHB
We not only like the name of the company "Warm decent human beings" - but we also like their approach to broaden the perspective of executives with so-called by diving into inspiring companies and environments throughout their Learning Expeditions. So we're happy to welcome one of their groups on March 17th in our Berlin Palomar5 base. The goal is to share our way of thinking, acting, communicating and networking-building within 90 minutes. Palomar5 at Querdenkerforum
On March 25th, we are invited to play a leading role in the next "Querdenkerforum" in Düsseldorf, where we 100 executives, innovations managers and journalists are expected to show up. We will take them on a Palomar5 journey, identifiy their desires for a more creative corporate environment and culture. This should be a fun session, as we also plan to involve the people in San Francisco hub in real-time and make use of collaborative brainstorming via Twitter.  Palomar5 - the book
The P5-Book-Project has to major goals: 1. Prototype a new collaborative process for developing a book (and re-thinking "books" as a whole) 2. Using this experiment to start discussions with exciting people and organisazions (door opener for usefull partners of any kind). This endeavour will automatically produce new "content" for the book - besides that, there will have to be an analysis and consolidation of existing content i.e. "what we all learned and experienced with P5".
If we want, this project can involve nearly every aspect and every individual within Palomar5.  Manifesto
We are working on a manifesto that defines our values and pinpoints, Palomar5's raison d'être. We will open up the process as soon as we have written down a proper basis for discussion. As soon as we agree on the manifesto, we will all - as tradition has it - sign it! (offline that is! - no digital signatures)  Berlin hub office tour
Laurent and Pippin will put together a short movie-portrait of the P5 Berlin Headquarters. Question of the week  Playgrounds
We like questions. Questions are great! We also like rituals. So we'll ask one question in every newsletter! You don't have to awnser. But remember, if you don't awnser you're a terrorist! Here we go: We would like to start building very advanced "playgrounds". Something like a permanent camp. Spaces of great trust, spaces of great freedom to think, live, experiment, to search for ones true desires - and to realize them, to search for ways to improve your life - and that of many others. Think of the time when you were a little child. You were free from many ideological constraints of society, you could just play, be so very curious, ask anythink, believe anything, trust whithout doubt, feel what is right in your heart and act upon it, you lived by your basic insincts - but, you were just a stupid baby. Now you have developed huge brains and crazy talents, but you have lost some of this freedom, you have become a bit tainted and a bit maddened by your progressing life. We want to create spaces that reverse these effects. What would you want in a space that gives you back this freedom? What would you desire your ultimative playground to look like? Collect answers here. If you managed to read until here, consider yourself a badass motherfucker. As this was our first attempt and we had to recapitulate a lot of stuff, we plan to shorten it in the next issues. If you have any feedback on this tool, please contact me (lh@palomar5.org). This week's newsletter is dedicated to Brad. Thanks a lot for your patience, and always remember, we're not a5ne in this.
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