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 Practical Practical
  
-1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond (an industrial estate in the residential London borough of Haringey http://www.haringey.gov.uk) from the point of view of its public. A cafe would offer visitors something to chew on alongside the art: sustenance and conviviality, enriched space for contemplation, information and reading, and the oppportunity to elongate their visit.+1. HTTP is located in the back of beyond (an industrial estate in the residential London area of Haringey http://www.haringey.gov.uk) from the point of view of its public. A cafe would offer visitors something to chew on alongside the art: sustenance and conviviality, enriched space for contemplation, information and reading, and the oppportunity to elongate their visit.
  
 2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery.  2. A service for local residents and studio occupants. The neighbourhood is changing - incoming small business and studios - the cafe would be an interface to that. A means of connecting with the local community that's more fluid and open, a softer and more everyday interface than the gallery. 
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 Profit is not a necessary motive - which opens up the operating territory considerably. Profit is not a necessary motive - which opens up the operating territory considerably.
-Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide surplus for office consumption. +Although stock should still pay for itself plus provide a heady surplus for office consumption. Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external.
-Seed funding will be required for start-up equipment and utensils: HTTP or external.+
  
    feral trade:Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.    feral trade:Feral Trade runs at a fabulous loss, in business terms.
-   It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort, excluding it from basic  +   It operates in an absence of the principle of least effort which excludes it from 
-   market measures of success. The investment is in the network. +   basic market measures of success. The investment is in the network. 
    
   * hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan    * hours of operation, visitor patterns, winter plan 
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 There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a  There is no cafe between the tube and HTTP although it is possible to take a 
 detour to Costa Coffee, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes.  detour to Costa Coffee, a commercial chain in the business mall on Green Lanes. 
-Portuguese cafe in the other direction has cheap and good espresso and a mainly Portuguese clientele.+Portuguese cafe in the other direction has good cheap espresso and a mainly Portuguese clientele.
  
 The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows. The cafe would not necessarily be linked to shows.
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 Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase. Customer receipts can be A4 laser prints with a torrent of product information, alongside the date and price of purchase.
  
-Selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Stock considerations include:+Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include:
  
    - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]]    - compliance with or skirting the regulatory perimeters [[uk_premises_regulations]]
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    - localness    - localness
  
-   Expand understanding of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village  +   Expand the notion of localness beyond the territorial boundaries of the village  
-   or nation state, to a model more accurate for the world HTTP works in: a shared set of  +   or nation state, to more closely replicate the world HTTP works in: a shared set  
-   connections and navigable transit routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. +   of connections and navigable routes like the scale-free hubs of the internet. 
  
    * Fairness    * Fairness
  
 Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their  Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included, along with their 
-source information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue to articulate a  +source information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue beyond simple boasting and the promotion of purity fetishes (such as the truth claims, elevated origins and destinies - gourmet, organic, fairdom, health - promoted by fresh and wild style packaging http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products) to instead articulate a  
-larger picture of the world it moves through - see+larger picture of the world the product moves through. 
 [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example. [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example.
  
-Fair Trade in comparison limits its communiques to the the iconic picture of the farmer/producer - a restricted landscape - http://feraltrade.org/fair+Fair Trade, in comparison, focuses its product communiques on the icon of the farmer/producer - [[http://feraltrade.org/fair|a homogenous landscape]]  
 and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture  and one that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture 
 labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue.  labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. 
-Gleaning: François Millet 1857 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm+See Gleaning, François Millet 1857 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm
  
-Feral Trade takes food-labeling as an opportunity for diverse communications as  opposed to righteous boasting and the promotion of purity fetishes, such as the truth claims elevated origins and destinies (gourmet, organic, fairdom, health) propagated by the likes of fresh and wild. +  * Other Information
-http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products+
  
-[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: The cafe menu to also include itemisations in the transit of cash as witnessed in the goods' procurement: particularly obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks.+[[breakdown_of_expenses]]: The cafe menu to also include items and incidents in the transit of cash preformed for the goods' procurement: particularly obstacles, as the materiality of money in small quantities generally defies the idea of the smooth movement of finance across global networks. 
 + 
 +   * Reciprocity
  
 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 
 menu items via peddling stock (sale, trade or gift). menu items via peddling stock (sale, trade or gift).
  
-Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/single items, ultra short seasons and microclimates.Menu should be easily updated and transmitted (database-driven) and include out of stock items - wishlisted, in negotiation or pending delivery.+   * Seasonality 
 + 
 +Economy of miniaturisation / smallscale. Enables hosting small batches/single items, ultra short seasons and microclimates. Menu format should be easily updated and transmitted (database-driven) and include out of stock items - wishlisted, in negotiation or pending delivery. 
 + 
 +    * Suppliers 
 + 
 +Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' food projects, social connections to city farms or allotments, home cultivation  
 +(cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc).  
 + 
 +   * Delivery
  
 Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP  Courier process. Use moving social networks including known and funded travel to HTTP 
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 of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.                of origin or source, to the broader ecology of supply. Promote inter-organisational trade with artistic peers, local and foreign.               
  
-Source producers or recipes from HTTP social networks, commission or collect artists' food projects, social connections to city farms or allotments, home cultivation  +   * Regulations
-(cake, jams, herbs, sprouts etc). +
        
 Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer limits of biscuit; cream teas.  Regulatory limits: Define and stock emergency food products; define emergency; outer limits of biscuit; cream teas. 
 +
 +    * Basics
  
     Feral Trade staples start menu.      Feral Trade staples start menu. 
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     - Cola from Bristol.     - Cola from Bristol.
     - Salt from Gujarat     - Salt from Gujarat
 +    - Zaytoun olive oil and other products
 +      http://zaytoun.org / local distributors at 
 +      http://www.zaytoun.org/index.php/sellers/#London
  
      Other organisational contenders      Other organisational contenders
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