According to our "NamingConvention", this page is dedicated to organize our fourth BarCampBankFlashMeeting on line and offline.
Sunday December 17 2006, 17:00 UTC, 6:00pm CET, 12:00am EST, 10:00am PST
Date was decided via a poll, please click here to see list of voters and votes.
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The first suggestion of having some barcampbankers diving and gathering in SecondLife, while using Flash-Meeting software for our visio-conference, motion and recording features is still open.
Agenda 90 minutes:
The agenda will be formatted for 90 minutes. Currently in discussion in french here.
Invited:
- Newbies, bankers, barcampers, hackers, groups, communities, wiki-bikers, and you ? ...
Attendees (barcampbankers in alphabetical order):
Excused:
Report meeting:
The flashmeeting recording will be available here: http://fm-openlearn.open.ac.uk/fm/index.php?pwd=dbd79d-104
Discussion:
Archive is on BarCampBankFlashMeetingDiscussionArchive
A quick note on Wikia just to say that it could be a tool to build our BarCampBank Community Portal for the international audience. We've already had a long discussion on the merits of out-of-the-box against open source alternatives, so I'd rather not go into the technical details again. My point is that we should look at the merits of using Wikia in terms of promoting awareness around BarCampBank, just as being on this BarCamp wiki probably gives us some exposure to a wider audience. Again, promoting awareness is the central topic of this BarCampBankFlashMeeting4. Cheers. -- FredericBaud
Personally, I think it's a great idea. I don't see anything wrong with starting a community portal on Wikia, to attract more people to the ideas of BarCampBank. I think that, as far as promoting awareness, and attracting people worldwide is concerned, that we should make a presence in as many places as possible, including commercial online communities. That is my opinion, anyway. We can ultiamtely create one central page that explains why we have created so many presences, and we can think about an effective way to tie them all together.
I am also interested in blogging about BarCampBank, both in blogs I write for, and in talking to other bloggers. But, I have been waiting until we gel into something that I can easily describe. I believe we are getting there. We need a message, a symbology, and something that a newcomer can engage easily, I think.
I also think that, for the mission statement, those of us who make up this group should create our own individual mission statements. Or, more precisely, we should figure out a way for us each to be explicit about what our core motivations are in this project. That way, we can think about how to mesh our work together better. I have learned from studying, and helping to create a [http://www.communitywiki.org/en/LiteracyOfHumanNature LiteracyOfHumanNature} that it is better to make our core motivations explicit.
So, for example, I could say that my core motivation in this project, and all projects, is:
-Survival of The Human Race: I believe we are on the verge of profound change, with the combined effects of many emergign issue drivers bearing down on us within the next 5-30 yers: Peak Oil, Global warming and massive climate change, Potential Mass extinction due to invasive species, Global Poverty and economic disparity moving into out of control ranges, Nuclear proliferation, Water shortages, Potentials for new Pandemic
So, my fundamental core goal with this project, and all projects, all of my decisions, suggestions, agreements, and objetions are centered arounf the goal of creating mechanisms that allow people on an individual level to participate in creating new ways for people to solve their problems of existence while avoiding these potential catastrophes that will emerge in our lifetimes if we don't do something now.
To me, it is ok if someone else in this project says their primary goal and motivations are something else. Even if they say their goal and motivations are to make money. But, if we make these goals explicit, then we can think about somethign like "how can you make money while averting global catastrophe?" Because, the goal of many people is short term materialistic gain, and realistically, people with these goals are to going to be part of creating change. And, the challenge for me is to design ways that allow people to fullfill short term materialistic needs, and simultaneously avert long term global catastrophe. -- SamRose
Hi all. I'm sorry but will be unable to join tonite (Pinko appointment!) My initial suggestion was to try a SL session via RobertVinet and other guys but could not succeed to find any time in order to find out a nice infrastructure. Please consider me now as an occasional contributor on this overall bcb project but still really interested to help via a future Pinko-branch for bcb. I'll try to find out elsewhere. @Frederic, my first feeling about wikia is we could find out a better alternative without depending on any google-ad model? Sam, I agree with your overall objective. Let's just say 'm currently trying to fight information-overload and your building-block approach to make people financially independent is very stimulating. That's my personal objective for 2008. Need to sleep and take holidays. Please consider I'm now taking my right to leave to visit my children during Xmas and dive more in the future WikiNet. Have a nice ting. I'll be happy to come back next year to try to find out new people and a strong place with machines to imagine a bcb-SecondLifeCamp tour-guide ;-) Cheers all -- ChristopheDucamp
MattisManzel: Have a nice xmas, xtof, and a good trip. I proposed further BarCampSecondLife. I think we'll get that going next year.
