<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Dear builders, enthusiasts and everybody interested enough,</font><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#000000">We are at the point where we can start our game with discovery, sharing and joyful meetings with old and new friends. Shall we begin then ? </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">The game is called: <b>European Straw Bale Gathering</b>, location is called: Łódź and there is one and only rule: <b>be excellent to each other.</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000">We are a non-profit called <font>Cohabitat and we are dedicated for building an open-source ecosystems for future of human habitats. Together of nationwide society of sb-professionals (OSBN) we are proud to invite you to :</font></font></b></div>
<div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><img src="cid:ii_13dd9b4c3718daf6" alt="Obraz w treści 1" width="420" height="197"><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Here's some highlights you might be interested in:</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000">A - Oh.. the dates!</font></b><br></div></div>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Here it is: we are going to meet in last 10 days of August. Exact dates and more details will be released soon as a PDF sent to everybody.</font></div>
</div></blockquote><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000">B - join the team and co-create</font></b></div>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">This is an invitation for those of you who are willing to share <u>a bit</u> of their time by joining<b> our board of advisors</b>. If the design&build process of ESBG can somehow benefit from your skills, experience, knowledge, networks, contacts, ideas and time which are<i> shareable</i> - let us know by replying to this mail. I strongly encourage you to share your vision for ESBG as well. What works for you best ? I'm serious...please, express it ;-) We will love you for that!</font></div>
</div><div style><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">First step in co-creation is this place: </font><a href="http://padlet.com/wall/esbg2013" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">http://padlet.com/wall/esbg2013</a> - </div>
</div><div style><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-- brainstorming, hooray!</div></div></blockquote><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><b><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif">C - let's fund it in DIY spirit</font></font></b></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#000000">At Cohabitat we bel<font>ive in people an</font>d their networked force for creating good. That's why we share our biggest challenges (coupled with victories) with the entire community every time we undertake a ambitious project. It works great in practice. Our last Cohabitat-Gathering Festival 2012 was entirely funded by the 650 polish people via crowd-funding platform. You can ask <b>Barbara Jones</b> how it feels to participate or check it out for yourself by watching <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKgdFHkqG_s" target="_blank">this</a> final video footage. No corpo and eu-funds needed, transparency included along with cooperation of motivated and passionate people like you. It really makes a difference. If it worked once in Poland with Polish people, we can do it even better on a wider scale in Europe, can't we ? :)</font></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><i><font>That's kinda cool, but how </font><font>does</font><font> it work?<br>
</font></i>Please meet <a href="http://goteo.org/project/escuela-libre" target="_blank">goteo.org</a> crowd-funding platform that we can use for our benefit.</blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><b><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif">D - let's share the vision</font></font></b><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">If you are a national networker, experienced professional or a self-builder we strongly encourage you to write us and organize together a 90min presentation open for everybody in a form of webinar. In plain english it's a online seminar where everybody sits in the first line :-) Looks like this: </font></font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSGiMtdbfeU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSGiMtdbfeU</a>.</div>
</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style>In this way we can streamline your experiences, vision, message to all natural-building community not only in Europe, but in the world and at the same time show that you are part of ESBG project this year. Yep, it will help a lot.</div>
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</div></blockquote><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>... there's a lot more. But we need some extra time for building a cool story ;-)</b></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Looking forward for replies from you,</font></div>
<div style>Best from snowy Poland</div><div style><br></div><div style>Pawel Sroczynski</div><div style>ESBG 2013 Team</div><div style>Cohabitat</div><div style><br></div></div></div>