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, [...]
Second month into the year, and you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that it’s winter with all the events I’ve been out to these past two weeks! People are definitely movin’ and a-shakin’ here in our fair city to get things rolling for now and further out. Last week, I attended four meetings: Vancouver Public [...]
ChangeCamp was yesterday. My live utters captured most of my immediate reactions; here is a loose summary of some more initial thoughts. Format The format of this event worked pretty well for me. The opening circle was followed by random groupings by letter. Each group had 45 minutes to hold rounds in which the people [...]
Perhaps I’m as self-centred as all those pundits say I am – as a member of Generation Y, I perhaps have a bit of a preoccupation with how awesome I can be. All I can say is that it feels a lot better than having a preoccupation with how doomed I am, because I imagine [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Ideas, Unconferences
| tagged as barcamp, canada, changecamp, governance, government, municipal government, open space, toronto, unconference, vancouver
After a good few days of deliberating (and checking my bank account balance), it is now official: I’m going to ChangeCamp in Toronto! The event is an unconference (as you might guess from the “camp” designation), and, from the official description… [...] is a free participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Flotsam and Jetsam, Ideas, Technology, Unconferences
| tagged as buskers, car-free days, community, competition, contest, culture, handimobility, metro vancouver, online video, performance artists, public transit, public transportation, street life, street musicians, strutta, translink, walkable cities
“Busker Idol,” you ask? Yes. Busker Idol. (!!!) Busker Idol is my working title / codename for an idea I’ve had for at least two years, that I’ve started to flesh out and test a little more earnestly in the past little while. Where did this come from? The basic idea is the intersection of [...]
For those of you who don’t know much about unconferences, this past weekend saw the 2008 edition of BarCamp Vancouver on Granville Island. I proposed a session called “BarCamps for Non-Techies” and, at 2pm, turned up to the stage to find a good group of around 20-25 people. We decided to drag the chairs onto [...]
So yesterday was BarCamp Vancouver 2008. In typical BarCamp fashion, I proposed a session on the wiki called BarCamp for Non-Techies on the Monday about 5 days before BarCamp, and did not prepare anything whatsoever. Then, racing in on Saturday morning, I proposed it at the Scheduling Jam, and Boris slotted it in at the [...]
One thing I’m thinking about today as we continue to cobble together the details on the SkyTrain Unconference is diversity. This flared up as a topic of discussion in the Web 2.0 world more generally a while back, with many high-profile bloggers like Jason Kottke looking at the gender breakdown of speakers at conferences, and [...]
As you might (or perhaps might not) expect of a student of Communication, media gives me swishy feelings. I got a few days head’s up for this, which is better than what I usually get. We hashed out the details this morning – tomorrow morning, I will be up bright and early to talk about [...]
