League of Pragmatic Optimists - Call for Projects

Press Release: LOPO Wellington

The League of Pragmatic Optimists is returning to Wellington with a new home and an open call for projects to be lopoptimised. Join your LOPO hosts Chelfyn & Helen Baxter and Elf Eldridge at the Wellington Makerspace, Monday 29th July from 6.30pm to engineer serendipity and support local ideas. Please secure your places to pitch an idea you need help with, or add your genius to projects asking for your insight. RSVP - http://lopowellington2.eventbrite.co.nz If you've got a project that aims to make the world better and you'd like to pitch at LOPO Wellington please e-mail studio@mohawkmedia.co.nz before Friday 12th July. We only have limited slots so get your idea in as soon as possible. For everyone else, please let us know you're coming along to contribute your lovely brains on the night.

“If TED Talks is Ideas worth sharing - LOPO is ideas worth doing.” Mark Stevenson. Founder, LOPO LOPO launched in London in 2011 and is spreading fast worldwide. Previous projects that have been lopoptimised by the LOPO Wellington Chapter include Chalke, The Wellington Vertical Garden, and pastureHarmonies. Watch a video update on their progress: https://vimeo.com/60702907 About LOPO The League of Pragmatic Optimists is a meeting place in cities and towns across the globe where people who want to make the world better can meet, generate ideas and projects, get inspiration and a recharge, find collaborators and have their neurons tickled in the cause of improving the story of humanity. Another way of looking at it is as an exercise in ‘engineered serendipity’ – a mechanism for diverse people and ideas to bump into each other and create (and deliver) projects that aim to improve things.

LOPO has eight core principles

*1. An unashamed optimism of ambition about the future

* 2. A pragmatic focus. Chapters meet to help people do, not just talk.

* 3. Members involve themselves in projects that are ‘bigger than me’

* 4. There is a strong belief that ideas become more powerful when they are shared, not protected

* 5. Your stories and opinions are nice, but your evidence is better

* 6. Making mistakes is OK, but not trying is irresponsible

* 7. Members strive to police their own cynicism, and keep it in check

* 8. LOPO is a-political and diverse.

All stripes are welcome but don’t come to promote your stripes + one (loosely enforced) ‘rule’: You cannot leave a LOPO meeting without adding at least one item to your ‘to-do’ list – and your ticket into the next meeting is that list with at least one task crossed off.

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