Tasks / SF0 Skill Share
Find a player that you have never met before in real life. Teach them a skill you think is useful for SF0. Have them teach you a skill they think is useful for SF0.
2 to 100 players
20 points
Level 1
In the zone of: Humanitarian Crisis
Created by JJason Recognition
2 completed :: 18 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
Comments
I reckon, and given the differing skill sets of SF0 players, it should be facinating to see what skills get swapped...
i am not supposed to be on this page yet. but this is delightful. and the praxes would be a sort of wikihow for creative madness....
For some of us, never met is hard. There's one other player even vaguely active within fifty miles of me, and I've already met him.
(So... any of you San Franciscan folks feel like an eastward road trip?)
For some of us never met is easy...
Depends on how prepared you are to travel.
Does one need to meet in person in order to teach a skill?
Piffle. Physical travel is not necessary, necessarily, in this day and age. Video instruction, telephone consultation, hand-drawn blueprints?
So, JJ, what you're saying is you're looking for a long-distance collaborator?
Because I don't believe we've met...
I don't think we have, either. But I've only ever met about 4 SF0 players. Let me think about skills I can swap...
I can: authoritatively imitate a person in position of authority; teach tricks to dogs; allow myself imperfection in tasks; plan and execute a major event; write a poem; dress as a convincing zombie; write persuasively on any topic; get lost; read maps; perform basic photo editing; do the Hustle; build [some] stuff out of cement, design a pretty good t-shirt; make a sleeping bag; [edited to add] design and build a web site; effectively publicize an event; bring a lawsuit; write a legally binding agreement; research and understand one's legal rights and civil liberties ...
I cannot do most things associated with music, the visual arts, and there are some intermediate/advanced photography techniques I would love to learn. Plus stenciling!
I'd love to learn how to imitate a person in a position of authority, and I can teach you drawing and possibly photography depending on how advanced you already are.
For this task there should only be one completion. With every player in it. We can have an E-show-and-tell via stickam(or other video conference website). or we can have one huge praxis with all of our videos/call ins/write ups. shplank waiting to occur!
Yeah, but if we have one huge praxis, who would vote? :/
Who cares, itl be epic. epic > vote. + we can vote by other means http://sf0.org/teams/DIYvters/
So, anyone want to learn how to knit? Spin? Remove brains?
Remove brains! Me! Me! Never done it in humans!
In exchange I can teach you to, um, gonadectomize mice, sequence DNA, isolate blood cells, make dancing worms out of drinking straw covers...
Dang, there must be something useful too.
All of those sound really cool.... I don't think I can pick.
what consititues meeting? does skype count? if so, that makes my pool much smaller.
i've also got knitting and sewing to trade. as well as a degree in psychology that can aid in humanitarian crisis tasking.
OOOH Saille, hey SAILLE - I've never met you. Wanna share skills???
oh. erm. yes, but I fear most of my skills are either quite useless for sf0 or I'd be afraid to try to teach them to anyone.
Mostly I can veganize recipes, cook, sew, plan permaculture designs and a zone 5-8 vegetable garden, pick simple locks, drive stick shift, stencil and paint badly, wrangle Photoshop 6, do minor electrical work, and write fancy interactive web pages. i am sure i am forgetting fairly useful things. what would you like to learn?
I cannot knit to save my life, and could find that quite useful for a task i've been holding onto. so far i've failed to grasp the concept from black and white line drawings in books, but haven't tried other means of learning. the list of other useful things i can't do is pretty much infinite, too...
Saille - I suggest teaching lockpicking. It's very useful, especially for certain styles of BARTPA task.
ZOMG - it's like The Dating Game!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll share with someone! This seems like a nice task to be doing right now, while I am too busy to do anything that requires IRL action (making a documentary + being in highschool: it eats lots of time).
I can: use a video camera, edit film, use an SLR camera, develop film, sew by hand, sew on a machine, draft patterns, knit, design clothing, draw women (but not men), draw most other non-human things, color sketches using GIMP, paint, screenprint, tie-dye, make stencils, use stencils, make candles, sing, dance (modern, ballet, and jazz), write novels and poems (but not short stories), diagnose strangers' neuroses with great accuracy, spot an autistic from a distance (they have a distinct walk!), apply stage makeup, make jewelry, do beadwork, "read" someone's clothing, speak a decent amount of Japanese, and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting!
I cannot, but would like to be able to: play an instrument, be on time, fix electronic equipment, understand computers, crochet, whittle, carve, build furniture, tap dance, speak confidently to strangers, do *accurate* cartography, scuba-dive, compose a song, surf, skateboard, do parkour. I love learning anything I can, though, so I couldn't possibly list everything I want to learn!
all cartography is accurate, to something.
True.
What I *meant* was the kind of cartography whereby you actually measure distances before you draw them (as opposed to what I usually do, which is to eyeball it).
I'll gladly teach you to speak confidently to strangers. I do it all the time.
Ok, I'm teaching one person to knit. Anyone else want to get in on it and have a three-way? I'll be giving lessons on a web-cam + phone call.
Most of my skills aren't things you can teach to people in a day... or even a week or two :(
I specialize in video editing and musical instruments, along with various athletic activities, I could possibly teach someone some of the core basics but all of them would need you to have the required equipment to actually begin learning any of it (programs, sports equipment, musical instrument) and so forth.
Actually... I just thought of something I could teach pretty quickly. I learned a basic level of Japanese, about 16 months worth of studying, and I could at least teach someone the basic grammar/"alphabet" structure of Japanese, it's incredibly easy to learn.
There's also a few other talents that I could easily teach someone, but talking about those might give away who I am, and right now I enjoy anonymity on a website for once.
This is my second year of Japanese lessons, and I have to wonder if you were taught/learned by a more efficient method than the one I've experienced. Because neither the grammar nor the "alphabet" of Japanese is easy (unless you are referring only to Hiragana/Katakana, and not Kanji), not the way I'm being taught.
We have not really been taught any over-arching grammar rules though, excepting how to use particles like は and に. We're being taught sort of "formulas" for making sentences, and you plug the words you want into the "formula" to say something. Like "A-san wa Object wo Verb Short Form to itteimasu".
Is this more or less the method you learned by, or did you do it differently?
Oh, i'm only referring to Hiragana/Katakana, Kanji is a beast.
I only know about 200 kanji, tops, memorized, and I don't know the "structure" of the majority of them (as in the whole super complicated grouping of things etc.)
The formula you learned is practically the same as mine though for language structure, I got up to the whole "Counting objects and adding suffixes dependent on what they are, like a suffix for round objects, for flat objects, for animals, etc." thing.
I learned online actually too, from a teacher who I paid 42 bucks for 42 lessons: they're incredibly well planned lessons that he'd check after I completed them and he'd give me corrections, it took me like a year to get through seven lessons though, so I never completed it. Each lesson was about six or so pages of compressed info and exercises though, so...
I spent several years trying to teach myself Japanese, and the best things I've found are Tae Kim's Grammar Guide and SRSes (Spaced Repetition Software). The former has a lot of in depth grammar stuff. While you're learning the grammar, it helps to add sentences to the SRS. If you can kind of lexically deconstruct them based solely on grammar (without knowing what all the words mean), then I guess that's progress.
I still don't know Japanese that good, though.
Create an SF0 SKILL youtube channel.
Everyone interested creates a youtube video regarding their SF0 skill (a teaching/how to video).
We have a date which is the last day to submit video.
BAM, mass collaboration.
Task completed -----> link to youtube channel.
Interested?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yeeeeeeessssssss.
I'm in! I knew one day I'd be famous!
whoever is interested in THis collaboration please add yourselves as "interested in collaborating on this."
Some have commented in being interested but haven't added themselves in that section. I will check back in approximately 48-72 hours, and proceed from there.
Thank you everyone,
~ Xena
Interested, unsure on skills I possess!
I'll have a think.
Players are worse for herding than cats (which I hear get quite onerous on the open range). I'm interested, but I'm thinking a 3-day deadline may miss out some players. Extend it out, make an event, we can probably double involvement.
I've let people take a look and add themselves on this task for quite awhile. I was giving some last minute lovers time to jump in.
Making an event is something I TOTALLY did not consider. Will do. TY.
Can I still participate in this wonderful mass collaboration?
Let's see....I could share my knowledge on how to communicate with difficult people, baking kick-ass cookies, conducting interviews, the French language, basic Spanish, how to compose a song, the difference between songs and poems, and possibly some basic guitar, I guess.
I'll make the event. In beginning of 09'. drat I keep forgetting to finish it
East Bay Area California
anyone?
anyone?
anyone?
East Bay Area California
Anyone near Chicago?
I can teach any number of skills- Stamp carving, knitting, needle felting, Photoshop, how to make something useless into some useful or at least pretty. Umm. I'm sure there are plenty of other things I could teach.
I don't know how to apply make-up, use power tools, or about a billion other things.
the task does not specify that we HAVE to meet in real life to teach the skill does it?
anyone interested in collabing with me via interwebs, PM me.
Most of my useful skill have to do with getting into things one shouldnt, or cooking.
let me know.
Send me a message! I should be able to teach the skill in about 20 minutes over some sort of video chat, or I can meet in person (although I'm in the RI area, so I probably wouldn't be able to get farther than Boston, and even that's a stretch)
im up for it. it might take a day or so cause of my hectic schedule and i need to get one of the materials to show, but i think it would be perfect.
i live in the sf area, richmond district. belly dancing is just the first one my mom came up with when i asked her to think of my good "skills" (random, sorry) but i knoooowww i have other ones which i could teach. if anyone else lives around me send me a PM! =D
i can travel pretty far if thats helpful, but nothing out of bart's reach. ^^
1. I live in the Richmond District as well. Convenient.
2. I would *love* to learn some belly dancing!
3. I'm terrible at thinking of things about myself, but here are a few skills that might be fun to learn/teach: Rubik's cube-solving, photoediting (in Photoshop), some basic Java programming (pretty much, how to make pretty but useless things XD), Wikipedia game strategies... mixtape (or mixCD, whatever) making strategies (WHICH DEFINITELY DO EXITST!)... um. Yes. :)
I'd love to do some skill swappage. I live in Fbx, but will probably be swingin' on down to Anchorage/Wasilla one of these weekends. I can teach:
beginning Japanese
the Thriller dance
how to draw Hamtaro and Pikachu-type animals
how to make scabs and bruises with theater makeup
making anpan
and some other things i can't think of right now.
I can also dye hair really well, including harder stuff like doing raccoon stripes and tips.
I'd love to learn any instrument or anything artistic. Also, cooking lessons would be great, but I'm a picky eater. :P
I also have skype and a webcam, so if we can't hook up IRL we can figure something out over webcam :)
Hollywood California
.i ma djica lo nu do joi mi cilre
Do you want to learn with me?
knitting, cooking, drawing, making videos on final cut pro, spanish, photography and developing photos. I'm in NY and also have skype.
ooh. Like these. I need to learn how to develop photos :] I can offer you these:
Storytelling
Witty Comebacks
Hipster Recognition Abilities
Circus Stunts
Beginning Violin/ mandolin information
Cooking odd dishes (usually raw or vegan)
Creating things typically made with fabric, but made with other unusual subjects.
Stencils/Airbrush.
I am in San Francisco and also have skype!
If anyone in Chicago wants to learn to play ukulele, I'm your man.
But I don't have an uke ( i like that shortname ). I have a trumpet witch I can't play, can you teach trumpet?
I can teach trumpet, but I don't have one and also haven't played one in thirteen years. So I probably won't be very good at teaching it. Anything stringed would work better.
ukes are cheaper than trumpets. But I totally want to learn trumpet. Perhaps we could rent one?
Looking for a long distance collaborator! :)
There are no tasks with a larger pool of interested collaborators attached. That being said, I'd be happy to collaborate.
Also, thanks for posting and making this task show up in my updates again and thereby indirectly reminding me that the distance completion of it I had planned got stalled by both of us not actually doing anything.
I'll have to hit up the hardware store soon anyway, so that should change rather readily.
Always interested in long distance collaborations! I'd have to think about my skill first, though...
I can't help but think I'm likely the only player in Oklahoma, but anyone interested in a long-distance collaboration, drop me a line if you would. I've got several skills that may entice the more... devious among us, and some other stuff too.
i've got some mad skills with duct tape (ie. my junior prom dress's only non-tape element was ribbon to tie the corset back of the top). i'm down to learn anything.
i'm in the east bay but always up for a little jaunt on BART.
I'd love to collaborate with any of the interested parties on this, but I'm not sure I have any marketable SF0 skills. Pretty much all I'm good at is drawing cartoons and telling stories (and whether or not I'm any good at those is subject to your judgement). I can also ride a bike pretty well, but that's the kind of thing that's hard to teach long-distance (I'm the only Halifax player of which I know).
I'm interested in a long distance collaboration. I need a primer on SF0! I can't seem to figure out many things on here, including making links work, adding videos, and editing a completed task so that the edits stay.
I can offer: research skills, how to make an e-book, sewing basics, polymer clay basics, cooking skills (we could make cookies!), leather working, collage, basic power tool usage, carpentry, tools for organizing personal libraries, event organization, costume making, and paper crafting.
If people are interested, we could also take your long distance collaboration idea a bit further.
We could start a new sf0 group and use the message board for writing what you can offer and what you want to learn. Then start exchanges based on this information. The task completion could be the founding of some kind of sf0 school.
@Libris Craft: If you want to figure out more on how sf0 works, we could also organize a new Break Bread sometime. Maybe with a nice mix of new players and those who've been around for a while.
I'd throw down for that and the Break Bread task. Although I don't have a decent webcam or mic, so any Bread Breaking I'd do would be Zork-style.
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