Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians brought their 19 city tour of Ontario to Sault Ste. Marie tonight. Maude is one of those legendary people you just have to meet when the opportunity comes, so I managed to catch part of her speech between other personal activities. I even got to chat with her [...]
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Obama-mania has arrived in Canada, with the arrival of the President to Ottawa. This morning I was interviewed on CBC Radio Sudbury’s Morning North show to talk about ChangeCamp, an unconference-style event geared to re-thinking the relationship between citizens and government. We touched on what ChangeCamp is, the inspirations for the event, namely the City [...]
Read MoreThis weekend I’ll be at ChangeCamp which in the words of chief organizer Mark Kuznicki is designed to create connections, knowledge, tools and policies that drive transparency, civic engagement and democratic empowerment. We want to start a new conversation about citizenship and government that understands and employs both the tools of the web and participant-led face-to-face [...]
Read MoreGreat response to my invitation for someone to step in as the new Planet Plone zoo keeper. Thanks to Lukasz Lakomy, Ian Hood, David Little and Rob Porter for responding. Plone community, here is your chance to find something small and needed for these willing volunteers. I’ll now introduce to you your new contact for [...]
Read MorePlone has been good to you. You’re earning a living thanks to the efforts of many, and perhaps your sanity has been saved on a few occasions by the kind folks in the #plone chat room. You’ve been thinking for a while about some way to help out, but can’t take on anything too big, [...]
Read MoreThe first World Plone Day event is now finished. New Zealand WPD organizer Tim Knapp was pleased with the results: Just so you all know, we just had our first WPD Plone Day event (in the world) in Wellington, New Zealand and about 31 people turned out, we had 6 presenters and a grand old [...]
Read MoreDigg this post Plone is an open source CMS (Content Management System), recently awarded the Best Other (non-php) Open Source CMS award. Plone, together with an array of add-on components is used for a variety of needs: Websites, extranets, intranets E-commerce Workflow management Blogs, podcasting, videocasting Collaborative workspaces like Open Plans As part of World [...]
Read MoreOk, time to start figuring out what sessions I want to go to at the Plone conference. I work mainly as a project manager / scrum master, so I tend to avoid the techy stuff. Here is my preliminary list: Wednesday The 10% manifesto and further — Methods for organized contribution to strategic development of [...]
Read MoreWow, it’s been a millennium in blogging terms since I last posted here. That’s not to say I haven’t been blogging. I’ve just found my interests have been elsewhere. I’ve been working on a few initiatives, now that family life is a little less demanding. Now that the twins have passed the one year mark, [...]
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