Interested in a neighborhoods online session?

[Steven Clift]

E-Democracy.Org is starting to support local citizens interested in
building connections among neighbors (building on our city-wide Issues
Forum foundation). We support our online groups using the open source
GroupServer platform (a should be better known GPL platform for online
groups). The Standish Ericsson example:

http://e-democracy.org/se

While I can't make it to MinneBar until mid-day, if there is interest
we can host a session on ways to connect neighbors and strengthen
neighborhoods online. I'd be interested in what ideas and technologies
others would bring to the fore. I am hosting something similar in
Washington DC this week:

http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=405

And I have a post on the topic on the PBS Idea Lab where I sometimes
blog:

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/05/coming-home-online.html

Let us know if you are interested, and we will put something forward
if enough folks say yes:

te...@e-democracy.org

Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org

P.S. We've been around since 1994 when a number of volunteers from
Minnesota tech and civic community came together to create the world's
first election-oriented website. Today we host online community forums
in over 10 communities across three countries. We are always looking
for more volunteers to join us.

[Luke Francl]

Steven,

I think such a session could be interesting. There will be some other
people from the non-profit sector there as well so I'm sure other people
would like to discuss these issues.

I encourage you to add a session to the sessions page
(http://barcamp.org/MinneBarSessions). We can work around your scheduling
problems if necessary, or you could just stake out an open room when you
get to the event (we'll have some ad-hoc sessions, I'm sure.)

Regards,

Luke Francl

[LlamaMan]

Hi Steven!
I'm definitely interested in this topic! I attended a small meeting
with some high-power Minneapolis city officials recently and suggested
that they adopt RSS feeds for their housing inspection schedule - They
literally laughed at the suggestion. So, it looks like it's up to
us! ;)

Toby Cryns

On May 3, 1:17 pm, Steven Clift <cl...@publicus.net> wrote:
> E-Democracy.Org is starting to support local citizens interested in
> building connections among neighbors (building on our city-wide Issues
> Forum foundation). We support our online groups using the open source
> GroupServer platform (a should be better known GPL platform for online
> groups). The Standish Ericsson example:
>
> http://e-democracy.org/se
>
> While I can't make it to MinneBar until mid-day, if there is interest
> we can host a session on ways to connect neighbors and strengthen
> neighborhoods online. I'd be interested in what ideas and technologies
> others would bring to the fore. I am hosting something similar in
> Washington DC this week:
>
> http://www.dowire.org/notes/?p=405
>
> And I have a post on the topic on the PBS Idea Lab where I sometimes
> blog:
>
> http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/05/coming-home-online.html
>
> Let us know if you are interested, and we will put something forward
> if enough folks say yes:
>

> t...@e-democracy.org

[Steven Clift]

As it turns out, while I myself can't make it to MinneBar, Tim Erickson with E-Democracy.Org will be there and I should note that Peter Fleck is one of the hosts of our neighborhood forum in Seward:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls-seward

So perhaps something spontaneous can be arranged.

We are hugely interested in applying technology to our local community and government in ways that open things up and engage people.

Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org