Gristle Crüe Call — Charbel from CM7 Group

This week we got insight into the approach of Char­bel Mat­ta, head of CM7 Group based out of Lebanon. Char­bel is lead­ing with tech­nol­o­gy edu­ca­tion and dri­ving into West Africa, Geor­gia, Cyprus, and Turkey as well as his home base of Lebanon.

Notes/Chat from call

10:02:35 From Eric Jonas : Howdy folks.
10:02:42 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : HEEELLLOOO!!
10:03:46 From Nik Hawks To 619OTA(privately) : Smart­Up
10:04:04 From Nik Hawks : Smart­Up
10:04:13 From Nik Hawks : Teach­ing tech­nol­o­gy to chil­dren
10:04:33 From Nik Hawks : Sen­sors, drones, etc
10:04:40 From Nik Hawks : Smart.edu.ge
10:04:46 From Nik Hawks : whoops
10:04:52 From Nik Hawks : Smartup.edu.ge
10:05:35 From Nik Hawks : Kids do projects to con­trol a sen­sor, then ask, “How do we con­nect this to the inter­net?”
10:06:40 From Nik Hawks : Halocode
10:06:56 From Nik Hawks : Micro­bit as well
10:07:28 From Nik Hawks : Build­ing a cur­ricu­lum that is kid ori­ent­ed and block based (mod­u­lar)
10:07:53 From Nik Hawks : First ship­ment is into Sier­ra Leone.
10:08:00 From Nik Hawks : 50 loca­tions going into Nige­ria
10:08:07 From Nik Hawks : Con­go, Cote d’Ivoire
10:08:27 From Nik Hawks : Cre­ate the cov­er­age, then devel­op the ecosys­tem.
10:09:06 From Nik Hawks : Mikrotek teacher (back­ground)
10:10:08 From Nik Hawks : B2B2C mod­el (Busi­ness to busi­ness to con­sumer)
10:10:49 From Nik Hawks : LNS is a pack­age to resell.
10:11:03 From Nik Hawks : Every coun­try has its own challenges/ecosystem.
10:12:16 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Each coun­try has its own needs and its own prob­lems to solve. The con­ti­nent of Africa is wide open.
10:14:20 From Nik Hawks : The Acad­e­my idea
10:14:41 From Nik Hawks : Sim­pli­fied cur­ricu­lum. Explain­able to a 4 year old.
10:15:17 From Nik Hawks : Mikrotec Acad­e­my — Cre­at­ed a consultant/trainer per coun­try who could deliv­er paid cours­es and lev­els of achieve­ment.
10:15:27 From Nik Hawks : (Licens­es)
10:16:24 From Nik Hawks : Have a cou­ple train­ers per coun­try who then enable a local work­force and advo­cates.
10:18:29 From Nik Hawks : Try­ing to employ peo­ple in Cyprus, Geor­gia (the coun­try) and Lebanon.
10:20:16 From Michael Corum : on mute
10:21:49 From Michael Corum : My ques­tion is more basic — how do you con­vince peo­ple and busi­ness­es to put up hotspots — there’s no mon­ey in it — no incen­tive
10:22:28 From Michael Corum : Also, out in the rur­al areas peo­ple are very fright­ened — they are con­vinced these are lis­ten­ing devices for the gov­ern­ment
10:22:57 From Michael Corum : I’ve talked to busi­ness­es about them using sen­sors and then incent­ing peo­ple to put up hotspots with free ser­vices or prod­ucts (like free wine from a vine­yard)
10:26:10 From 619OTA : or unless you game
10:27:45 From Nik Hawks : Pri­vate project for win­ery in Lebanon. Con­vert­ed them to Heli­um, embed­ded the price in the ser­vice.
10:27:52 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : I think also you have to com­bine it with sen­sors to solve prob­lems. That is where we are in the time line now.
10:28:01 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Mis­souri wine? Is that an incen­tive? 😉
10:28:19 From Michael Corum : well — a few of the winer­ies — yes — but many oth­ers no
10:28:32 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : I love Her­mann!
10:28:40 From Michael Corum : Great town
10:28:45 From Eric Jonas : Giv­ing out sen­sors and sub­scrip­tions to Track­pac makes it a fixed cost for you and gives the host a con­crete num­ber to wrap their head around rather than explain­ing POC rewards and the cryp­to mar­ket to them.
10:29:33 From Eric Jonas : But wine is a good alter­na­tive for sure!
10:30:04 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : nope
10:30:25 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : @Eric _ agreed. Great idea, and I will be steal­ing that. ?
10:30:44 From Michael Corum : Some farm­ers already have sen­sors
10:30:49 From Michael Corum : but they have to walk up to read them
10:30:53 From Michael Corum : not net­worked
10:31:25 From Eric Jonas : Any­time Kev. I steal all your stuff every chance I get man.
10:31:35 From Eric Jonas : ?
10:31:46 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : I’m mak­ing an enter­tain­ing video explain­ing what heli­um is, almost fin­ished. For friends and fam­i­ly to under­stand it.
10:33:09 From Nik Hawks : Bo look­ing for spe­cial exper­tise across indus­tries. They’ve found that most peo­ple don’t under­stand the tech at all. They’re work­ing on messaging/marketing for what the sen­sors can do. In the local lan­guage.
10:33:22 From Nik Hawks : (Out of Ibiza)
10:33:33 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : @Lee — please share!
10:33:42 From Nik Hawks : Hotels, agri­cul­ture, etc. Get some­one who’s in there already.
10:33:50 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : That’s cool Bo. Ibiza = #smar­tis­land
10:34:13 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : @Eric ?
10:35:08 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Let’s all move to Ibiza!!!!! ?
10:35:14 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : I’m in!!!
10:36:40 From Nik Hawks : Jet­s­ki track­ing
10:36:44 From Eric Jonas : I like to express to poten­tial hosts that build­ing the Peo­ple’s Net­work is akin to David bat­tling Goliath (AWS, Google, IBM etc) and ask them to join the fight to defeat the evil cor­po­rate hell­beasts.
10:36:55 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Go pick up your wife!!!
10:37:18 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : haha­ha
10:37:28 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : He hauled it into the liv­ing room…
10:37:36 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : And there it sits in the mid­dle…?
10:37:53 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Looks good. Good price
10:37:56 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : The dog is con­fused…?
10:38:05 From Michael Corum : brb
10:38:07 From Nik Hawks : Bo: Orkney­Lo­ra
10:38:17 From Russ : I am admir­ing your white­board tech­nol­o­gy.
10:38:42 From Nik Hawks : LoRaWAN sen­sor but­ton for taxi call­ing.
10:38:45 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : YAS!!
10:39:13 From Nik Hawks : LoRaWAN sen­sor but­ton for call­ing for ser­vice.
10:39:29 From Nik Hawks : Find­ing lost bikes
10:39:40 From Nik Hawks : Coor­di­nat­ing with local res­cue ser­vices.
10:39:51 From Russ : https://zapier.com/blog/best-online-whiteboard/
10:41:45 From Michael Corum : miro and mural.co — both good
10:43:03 From Russ : I thought LoRaWan is a group of fre­quen­cy for pub­lic use with lim­i­ta­tions. What is the inven­tion?
10:43:36 From 619OTA : or for life alert
10:43:41 From Nik Hawks : The inven­tion is the LoRa pro­to­col
10:45:11 From Eric Jonas : I got­ta scram folks. Have a good one.
10:45:23 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Bye Eric
10:45:30 From Michael Corum : Eas­i­er way might be to buy a point to point to ampli­fy your WiFi
10:45:36 From Michael Corum : they can go up to a mile now
10:45:47 From Michael Corum : I just got one for $55
10:53:09 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : YES!
10:53:18 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Yes!!!
10:53:33 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Yeah, Jay — all okay?
10:53:40 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Hi Jay!
10:54:18 From Nik Hawks : Out­doors & indoors are all plugged in. No point in deploy­ing more until map­ping goes live and dri­ves earn­ings.
10:54:31 From Nik Hawks : Get­ting into Hivemap­per but no fleet tools exist yet.
10:54:42 From Michael Corum : for 5G, right?
10:55:25 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Sor­ry to hear Jay
10:56:21 From Michael Corum : Weath­erXM, still on order since July
10:56:27 From Michael Corum : they keep mov­ing the date back
10:56:32 From Michael Corum : now it is end of Decem­ber
10:56:40 From Russ : You might be able to incor­po­rate Air­craft (METAR) reports to your handg­lid­ing. https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar
10:56:52 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : DIMO main­net went live. Any­one know the val­ue of the token?
10:57:25 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Just got the Here Be Drag­ons email. Have time to talk more about it here?
10:58:49 From Nik Hawks : Mul­ti tech is not a great device for pro­vid­ing “free WiFi” via CPE
10:59:24 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Wasn’t Par­ley Labs test­ing a device, Jay?
10:59:59 From Jay M. : yes, they are test­ing oth­ers as well
11:00:04 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : cool
11:00:15 From Michael Corum : thanks
11:00:18 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Cool, so glad to see everyb­doy
11:00:18 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Lat­er. Thanks, Nik & Lee