On my mind
I’m in the middle of “Shake Hands with the Devil“.
And I’m reading “Software Project Survival Guide“.
and I’m thinking a lot about maps. jabber + maps, wiki’s + maps, art + maps (I wonder when OurMedia.org is going to let people include coordinates on the files?).
Overall, I’m still working through this idea of code being important. Earlier on, say after the first year and after we had realized some success, I got to thinking that ISF was -besides being a very imporant group of friends - a chance for me to learn some leadership skills. I imagined those skills serving in some future project that was more “important”. Now I can vaguely see things that we can do that are “important”.
It’s not that I want to *be* important. It’s that I need to be part of something that has a significant impact on our world. Through a bunch of good conversations recently, I’m starting to see how we can do that.
I need to go write some grants. It’s time to get some funding into this equation.