stuff
We got a new site (finally). Daniel, Maya, Marc (Laporte), and I have been working on it (i’ve just been transferring some content and occasionally putting my nose in regarding navigation/interface. The others did all the work). I’m pretty happy with it and I think it’s going to really help us in communicating with our members/users.
I’ve attended a two-day workshop last week at the Concordia Summer Program. It’s a bilingual week-long session for community organizers and activists to learn some new skills, and improve base ones like fundraising, communication tools, etc. The workshop I attended was organized by the University of the Streets people and the subject was “Public Conversations”. Very interesting, and the attendees basically forced me to set up a blog for them.
They are doing really interesting stuff. Check out the events for this month:
-Reconciliation - d’une perspective globale a une perspective personnelle
Changer les relations entre les Premières Nations et le Canada
-Le pouvoir de l’alimentation - which is a conversation/potluck on a rooftop garden and coordinated with Santropol Roulant and Alternatives Rooftop Garden program.
-Tour de velorutionnaires… Conversation a bicyclette! -a public conversation / bike ride
-Nation pluraliste - a regular conversation
- Films and Conversations - watching movies and discussing the power of media afterwards.
I know that this sounds kind of freaky, but they’ve set up a very successful series of conversations at cafes. I see what they’re doing now as a kind of R&D area for public conversations. They’re really trying to find out, on a pragmatic level, if and how public conversations can bring social change. Not too far different from some of us web-heads.
I also wrote my first article for mainstream publication (obviously on wifidog/ilesansfil). Not sure if it will be accepted or not. I’ll let you all know if/when it comes out.
These guys set up Bumpnet. Its the same thing as that email list that cound only contain 6 members. This one is a free wireless network that can only have 6 people online at a time. The earliest one get’s kicked off when the seventh person jumps on. Artificial scarcity and what-not.
NYC is getting into wifidogfinally - which is cool.
and that’s all for tonight - except that I took the only hybrid taxi in montreal today and it was very fun.
and I ate a cheese sandwhich somewhere in there as well.