Naturally, being behind the firewall on a Monday means I missed the big blogger pile-up that happened for Toronto Transit Camp yesterday – dugg and everything! I did manage to submit my bio and statement of interest to register, because I am so jonesing to learn how to do this for Vancouver. Vancouver’s transit scene is, shall we say, a lot less vocal than Toronto’s, so I’m looking to see what we can do about it, because, in my very humbly biased Vancouverite opinion, Translink has a lot of things going for it that make it absolutely gorgeous (and its warts, like everything else). I’ve mulled over whether a TransitCamp-y sort of thing could happen in Vancouver. (I think it will help a whole lot more once I’m actually back there.)
Anyway, back to Toronto. I like the TTC too, in a more doggedly persistant frantic way than I do Translink. I’m also really interested in it as a community-based initiative. The TorCamp community is exists uniquely for a certain purpose, and they’re putting a variation on an existing theme. I just started lurking in the TorCamp Google Group and find them all a very aware and interesting bunch (not a surprise if you see how many events end with the word “Camp” in my Upcoming Scrapbook – why else would I keep going back?), and I’m glad to be able to stay in the periphery getting pulled in closer every day.
I do also quite like that TransitCamp explicitly states what they are not about, because keeping things constructive is a challenge, and I look forward to seeing if and how TransitCamp is able to pull it off. Here’s hoping that I get to go! Perhaps I was misinformed? It looks like the only cap is the number of people.
(Oh, and I do apologize if I mind-plagiarized the title from someone.)
