innovationcommons
David Crow tells me that innovationcommons.ca is up and running.
Rob has proposed a loose network of Third Places’ around the world, with some sort of federated or shared memberships. This is a huge idea, completely independent and unique organizations who are constantly sharing ideas, processes and memberships.
The buisness plan and model will be different in every community. A Toronto Commons is going to have different needs and users than the QSC in Charlottetown.
Dave is feeling the pain
Meshingness
Mesh is just over an hour underway and I have to confess, for someone who was pretty excited by all of this, it’s all feeling pretty status quo. Coming out of TorCamp, and Democamps before that, I guess my expectations may have been a little high, but so far this is the antithesis of 2.0.
A couple of weeks ago in Washington, we were staying at the Omni, and there was a propane conference going on, “propanedays”, lots of texan-types doing deals, I even had a round of expensive scotch bought for me when someone got a round for the bar on him (took the money out of his white cowboy hat — no joke). I dropped into that conference, and it was painful, and that is what I am feeling now.
I can’t imagine that this is a very fair review so far, it is only 11am, so let’s see how, and where, things go, and give credit where credit is due: things are well run and the room is full of interesting and thoughtful people, that’s a start worth saying thank you for.
TorCamp
TorCamp is off to a good start, more and more people are showing up all the time. Bryce had an interesting session on “The Foundation of Design Thinking and Strategic Development”. And John had a nice refresher session titled “Graphics Design for Programmers, it’s been so long since I did Linear math that he got my mind racing again on vector graphics.
BarCampTdot
Come to BarCampTdot this weekend.
Can’t wait.
