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Growing out of these last two conference experiences, and the NXNEI idea, what if we were to create a wednesday night virtual meeting of civicspace users. Conference call and live chat/irc. An opportunity for people to get questions answered in real time, to show off new sites, hacks, modules, etc… Proposed Agenda: 15 minute…
While listening to the interviews (in the podcasts below) I came up with an idea. I bounced it off Noel and this is what we came up with: North By Northeast Interactive (NXNEI) 2006: PDF Civic Space User Summit nTen Regional Penguin Day to all piggy back on each other and time them…
I first met Sheldon Rampton online over at CivicSpaceLabs and then in person at the nTen. Sheldon has contributed some modules to drupal civicspace, my favorite being interwiki which i use ever day here on the site. Sheldon is the research director over at Center for Media and Democracy and runs their website usign CivicSpace.…
I had the opportunity to spend some time during the PDF and the Civic Space user summit with Dan Robinson of CivicActions . In this short interview, Dan comments on both conferences. Attachment Size cs_danrob.mp3 250.6 KB
I had the opportunity to meet Christian Crumlish yesterday and today (well monday and tuesday, at this point). Christian is a writer for Personal Democracy Forum and is also author of the book The Power of Many . Christian was a panel moderator at the PDF and was a participant at the CivicSpace User Summit.…
Jo Lee from Citizen Speak just put the CitizenSpeak development project (to redevelop Citizen Speak as a CivicSpace Module) on Fundable.Org . The idea is that if lots of people give many small donations towards the budget ($7000) we will be able to pay for it. So you can go to Fundable Citizen Speak Campaign and…
Here is an advocacy campaign to stop global warming that is using the friend of a friend (FOAF) to spread the message. Interestingly, i got an email about this that i think was not sent through the website, but someone just sent me an email about it…. You can go to my page on the […
I logged a bunch of the chat from yesterday's PDF. There was live back channel chat throughout the conference, and at many points it was shown on a big screen in the main auditorium behind the speakers. THis made for a few intesting moments when the chat overtook the presenters. But like anything else there…
I have blogged about this before, bu ti just got out of the session on Muni Wifi with Andre Raseij and Dianah Neff from Philadelphia. The conversation was interesting, and hopeful, the big take away was that if we don't fight for muni wifi, the telcos are going to lobby to take it away, or…
Remember it is pronounced "Row-Shay"… Andrew gave the introduction this morning for the conference and for the Key Note Speaker, Scott Heiferman of MeetUp.com ( y'all know the url, I'm not giving them a link, you can go to upcomming.org for all your meetup calendar/invite need ) Besides the usually plesentries of thanking attendees, presenters and…