After a little confusion we had our short-notice meeting at ~18:00-20:00.

We talked about many things related to BwoB's future and the RFP (and even a little digression into Open Insulin) and agreed that we will set our meetings more frequently for a time to write the RFP. I believe the most important take away from this meeting is our conception of the RFP as primarily driven by NYC's desire to create more lab space which aligns with our interests to (re)open our lab space. There are likely fundamentally flawed assumptions on how this lab space might function to create jobs and empower those with biotechnology but for the purposes of writing this grant we will have to endow the story of impact we are trying to sell to the NYCEDC the full priority of our efforts.

Some of the meeting was spent catching Vik up to the thoughts that we covered at the last Community Meeting. Which included the need to find a strategic niche in our application among what will be various business incubator-type RFPs replicating Harlem Biospace and Genspace. We are most excited about a story involving unincorporated individuals as an untapped resource of innovative ideas and putting them on the path (should they seek it) of commercialization.

We also aligned that not all decisions during this process will be debated asynchronously because we need the focus on telling a compelling story and we need to move a little faster to meet the Aug 18th deadline. In my mind we're thinking that all comments should be properly formulated objections (although I recognize that not everyone is aligned to the consent process). Stay tuned for our next meeting invite about this over Loomio we are aiming for sometime Monday morning.