The Closest I’ve Been to the 60’s in a Long Time
Sunday, February 5th, 2006You’ve got to hand it to Brandon Sanders. He doesn’t look old enough to have been around in the 60’s, let alone remember them. But all that was missing for me at the RecentChangesCamp he helped produce was the incense and patchouli, and…well, never mind.
The event, held downtown, was today’s be-in: all about community building, but instead of communes, it was mostly wiki-based virtual communities. What needs to be freed today isn’t Bobby Seale, but software and ideas. And the participants for this 3 day event were as passionate and eloquent as we were, jeez, forty years ago.
I had a great time meeting new folks and seeing some familiar faces. I got invited to go to Bali with Nobel prize winners to solve the world’s problems (no, I had to pay my own way). I learned about news4neighbors, a terrific local resource, and David Poole who runs it. I got to talk about data center stuff with my new buds from OSU/OSL, who host a Who’s Who of open source projects. And then…well, you really had to be there
Check out their website, and if you’re into The Movement, make sure you make the scene next year.