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   * physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices   * physical setup: service and storage spaces, equipment investment, utensil choices
  
-Initial investment would be an advantage.+Initial investment would be an advantage (equipment, utensils, presentation media). 
 +Stock would cover itself.
          
-Decking. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. +Decking that runs along the side of HTTP building would be prime seating area. Sound the landlord out on this between rent payments. 
 Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye  Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye 
 on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are  on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are 
-legally HTTP's, paid for within rent. Cafe could serve from here.+formally HTTP's, paid for within rent. Cafe could serve from here with guests seating themselves informally.
 Is the back garden an alt possibility? Is the back garden an alt possibility?
  
-    Liability would need to be thought through either way.+    Liability would need to be thought through or ignored.
  
   * publicity   * publicity
  
-Cafe would have its own publicity strand, as a HTTP project.+Cafe would have its own publicity strand as a HTTP project.
 Also promoted as background for exhibitions. Also promoted as background for exhibitions.
  
   * operating models (positive and negative)   * operating models (positive and negative)
  
-    Cafe Kino in Bristol. Vegetarian cafe, opens weekdays 11-5, longer on weekends. +    Cafe Kino [[http://www.cafe-kino.com/about/index.htm]], Bristol.  
-    Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop and Gallery over the road. +    Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop/Gallery over the road. 
-    High proportion of customers are their extended social networks who probably live  +    High proportion of customers are from their extended social networks & probably live  
-    within a few blocks. People go for the sociability, decor, free wireless,  +    within a few blocks. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi,  
-    good tea and coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social +    good products, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social 
     networks.      networks. 
  
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 =====  REGULATION ===== =====  REGULATION =====
  
-    Use existing premises regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or      +Use existing [[uk_premises_regulations]] as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance.  
-    compliance. Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. + 
 +    Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project. 
  
 ===== HTTP structure  ===== ===== HTTP structure  =====
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   * Current conditions   * Current conditions
  
-Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett (unincorporated partnership). Tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE. +Umbrella company is Catlow & Garrett, a partnership and tax entity, deals with rent and overheads, PAYE etc. 
-HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits with written constitutions. +HTTP is a [[http://furtherfield.org]] project. 
-Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by ACE. +HTTP & Furtherfield are not for profits, with written constitutions. 
-HTTP is a furtherfield.org project. +Furtherfield has an advisory board and is funded by Arts Council England. 
-HTTP compound is zoned as mixed / live-work.+HTTP is located in a business arena zoned as mixed / live-work.
  
    
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    Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu)    Food goods will be informationalised (onboard or on menu)
  
-   Stock considerations include: regulatory perimeters, shelf life (perishability),  +   Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be  
-   network relations, the facility of the food item to host information. +   primary or exclusionary.    
-   Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. +   Stock considerations include 
-   These include seasonality, locality, information on source, information on carriage, + 
-   trade relations with source, trade relations of delivery (embodied by courier). +   - compliance with or skirting regulatory perimeters  
-  +   - shelf life / perishability 
-   +   - exploration of network relations 
-   Expand conception of localness beyond the territorial village model  +   - the facility of the food item to host information 
-   to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes +   - information on source, relations with land, embodied by the transport of its produce 
 +   - information on carriage, trade relations of delivery, embodied by courier. 
 +   - seasonality 
 +   - locality.  
 + 
 +   Expand conception of localness beyond the territorially bounded, inland model of  
 +   the village, to a shared set of connections plus swift transit routes 
    like the scale-free hubs of the internet.     like the scale-free hubs of the internet. 
  
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    source information. The priority is to expanding the product monologue to articulate a     source information. The priority is to expanding the product monologue to articulate a 
    larger picture of the world it moves through.    larger picture of the world it moves through.
 +Eg. [[tea_from_bangladesh]]
  
 [[common_products]] [[common_products]]
  
-   The commodity conceals its relations except for the money one; +   The commodity (as object produced for sale on the market) conceals its relationships  
-   the product of the commons is filled with human relations, although including  +   except for the money relation; conversely the product of the commons is filled with  
-   possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.) +   human relations, although including possibly unpleasant ones: Peter Linebaugh.)  
 + 
 +[[breakdown_of_expenses]]
  
 +[[fair_trade_relations]]
  
-   Open up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS righteous  +   Feral Trade opens up food-labelling as a platform for discussion and adaptation, as VS  
-   boasting and promotion of purity fetish. +   righteous boasting and promotion of purity fetishes. 
    Undercut profit-motivated product aryanism of fresh 'n' wild.    Undercut profit-motivated product aryanism of fresh 'n' wild.
  
    Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute     Read-write menu. Open to intervention from random vendors eg. customers can contribute 
-   via sell/trade/gifting stock.+   menu items via sell/trade/gifting stock.
  
  
-   Economy of miniaturisation. Enables hosting small batches/single items: ultra seasonality. +   Economy of miniaturisation / low scale. Enables hosting small batches/single items 
-   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable +   ultra short seasons. 
-   perhaps database-driven  +   Menu should be easily adaptable and transmissable, perhaps database-driven,  
-   and list items currently in negotiation or pending.+   and include a section for items not in stock eg. in negotiation or pending.
  
  
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