During BarCamp, I attended Boris Mann and Mark Busse’s session on Balancing Passion and Frustration – but I stepped out to chat with someone across the room in the middle of the session, and now I’m kicking myself a bit for it. Near the start, I offered the story of how I turned one of [...]
Last Friday, due to a great stroke of fortune, I got to visit the Vancouver 311 call centre and hear a presentation from two of that project’s key figures: the person who championed the project within City Hall, Barbara Pearce, and the Operations Manager, Darcy Wilson. I didn’t know too much about the 311 project [...]
A few days ago, an upcoming unconference known as TransportCamp came across my radar. It’s being organized by The Car Co-op (perhaps better known as the Co-operative Auto Network), and has a number of sponsors, such as VanCity, TransLink, The Cooperators (the insurance company), and BCAA. There is a $25 admission fee, and it’s happening [...]
Two posts rolled into one! The time constraints demand it.
Vancouver ChangeCamp
Vancouver ChangeCamp happened last Saturday, and I was extremely delighted to have the privilege of describing (at the very high-level due to similar time constraints) the ChangeCamp “lineage”, from BarCamp, DemoCamp, TransitCamp, OpenCities to the events in Toronto and Ottawa.
So what happened? The same thing [...]
The last couple weeks have been so full of activity helping to organize Vancouver ChangeCamp, that I’ve sadly neglected my very own proposed session on mapping and public engagement! That said, the goal was always for me to convene the conversation rather than show my (non-existent) expertise, so I’m feeling the pressure lift slightly on [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Four dimensions, dot-star-camp
| tagged as architecture, bike culture, cycling, design, inspiration, interaction design, pecha kucha, pecha kucha vancouver
Thanks to Richard Smith, I unexpectedly got to attend Pecha Kucha Night 6 at its usual spot at The Park Theatre not 4 blocks from my home. I arrived late (as usual) and panicking about locking up my bike as the clock inched past 7:05.
But I needn’t have worried; the presentations got to rolling around [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Four dimensions, dot-star-camp
| tagged as changecamp, citizen collaboration, citizen sensing, common sense, geolocation, location awareness, mapping, mobile, urban informatics, vanchangecamp, youmap vancouver
I submitted this to the VanChangeCamp’s call for proposals last week (it’s also available in the ChangeCamp wiki):
Who is the intended audience?
Government leaders
Non-profits
General public
Brief description of the session:
I will moderate a session involving groups involved with mapping at the municipal, non-profit and citizen levels, to talk about what their interests in mapping [...]
Thunder and lightning, very, very frightening!
The issue of photography in transit is raising its ugly head again as the transit police (partially funded by the Federal Government, judging by the livery) have stuck ads in transit asking people to report “suspicious” behaviour and illustrate that with people taking pictures of security cameras!
What can I [...]
There are some places you don’t expect to hear the words “Change Camp.” That place for me, about two weeks ago? Ukelele Night at Our Town Café. I didn’t get to dive too deeply into where the person had heard about it, but it’s got me thinking pretty hard about the strength of the movements, [...]
