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Interesting couple of days. On Wednesday I had coffee with Prof Leslie Regan Shade. Professor Shade is a Communications prof and a researcher with CRACIN(Canadian Research Alliance For Community Innovation And Networking). Ile Sans Fil is just the latest generation of community networks, so I’m eager to find out what lessons we can learn through her about our predecessors. She invited Steve Pariso, a student of hers, somebody I’ve wanted to meet for a couple of months now.

The we went to hear Dr. Julian Sefton-Green speak about children creating content online. After I snuck along to the pub with him, two professors from the Digital Girls research group and someone from GameCODE.

Talking with the lead of Digital Girls group (Dep. of Education), they are embarking on the same discussion we are having at GameCODE. What kind of website do we need, what communication tools do we use, how much of our workings do we keep private vs public? Since we’ve already done a lot of looking around I’m interested in helping them set up their system.

Thursday I met with Karen, a law student who is giving us a hand at IleSansFil. Then we had a GameCODE meeting. So far the wiki has been adopted very partially. About half the group doesn’t even know how to use it.

After class I walked by three of our hotspots to see if they had put up the signs and instruction sheets that Daniel had handed out. I ran into Alex using the connection at Cafe Utopik and Benoit working at Cafe Tribune. I dragged them both to respond to a request from Miriam for extra hands making cables to redo the network at StudioXX. That was pretty fun and we got some free Thai food out of the deal.

All of this is almost exciting enough to forget that I’m poor and have a late assignment to hand in. Almost.

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