Developmental dissolution of virtual laboratories

We were chatting and the subject of Virtual Laboratory (2018) came up, and we were like, “Don’t they do those anymore?” and we were like, “Don’t they do that anymore?

• And as I was explaining, I thought, “Well, that wasn’t explicitly stated in Scrapbox.

My response, “Well, what I wanted to do has already been accomplished.” - 2021 Unexplored Junior - > In 2021, for the first time in unexplored junior, a “whole Scrapbox project including adopters” was created

• Unexplored Junior mentors adopt one to several people each year, and the adopters do a six-month project.
  • This is “laboratory” style
    • It’s like a “two-year master’s program with classes” has been compressed into “only six months of project execution.
    • Several of the graduates have remained active in the community.
      • This is like a PhD student
  • I apparently don’t care much about “being Nishio’s.”
    • So I don’t feel particularly inclined to name it “Nishio Lab.”
  • All have a common chat and Scrapbox, it’s like a student room.

So I thought, “Let’s join and observe various Scrapbox communities to make it better.

• In doing so, one experiment was conducted.

  • unnamed-project

• Experiment started on 2022-03-07

  • Even an unknown project can be a project.
  • Once the second person joins, the conversation will take place there.
  • The second and third people get excited about topics I don’t know about, and we hit it off.
  • They tried to eliminate the distinction between main and guest, but it didn’t happen.
    • No matter how hard you try to erase Nishio, the fact that “Nishio started it” will never go away.
      • In that sense, it’s amazing side of well the person who created it is gone.
      • When I myself became inactive, others became less active.
    • The atmosphere of the place can only be defined by the Lord
      • If the Lord wants “the people in the place to do whatever they want,” He needs to make that explicit.

• Based on this experience, I designed the Scrapbox for the Omoikane Project.

  • It was originally intended to be a single project with five founding members and its participants
    • We were proceeding in that form, but our schedule changed and we no longer had the requirement to be a single project.
    • No more deadlines.
  • Therefore, each member of the team verbalizes the projects he or she wants to do and shares the progress once a month.
  • This is similar to a meeting where students report on their research progress to their advisor, but I’m the one running the project, the advisor is not present.
    • Can we get an AI in here?
  • The members who are doing the project are like M2 and the members who are not doing the project are like M1.
    • No need to go on to M2 as it is not the same as a university master’s program
    • It is beneficial to see what M2 is doing.

Why in the first place? The story of why?

• I consider the unexplored Boost Conference to be a good thing.
• But physical limitations on the number of people have made it impossible for some to participate.
• I see this as a problem that needs to be solved.
• So I realized that there is a desire to increase similar opportunities.

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