Re: vancouver courier
Karen Fung
OK, so I was interviewed by the Vancouver Courier about TransitCamp
and they might be / are running a story on it for Friday's paper. (I
blame Paul, he gave them my number. :D)
I expressed some of what was in my blog post about being irrelevant.
Told them the history of Toronto TransitCamp/BarCamp, how I came to
starting organizing it, the open space self-organizing stuff, bringing
TransLink into it and making it a positive environment. I think I
didn't include tech stuff into it, which can both be a good and a bad
thing. Blah. It's done and I'm sure she picked up the parts of it that
she wanted.
I also said the date might be changing, depending on whether the
Climate Change Day of Action is a really big issue for a lot of people
coming (it'd suck if everyone left at 12 or something to go the
central library, heh). I've asked about this in the facebook invite,
so hopefully we'll get yays/nays either way. Again, I know the 8th was
also a bit soon for TransLink's taste as well.
OK, going to go back to writing about social capital. I'm so not media-savvy :P
Karen
On 11/28/07, Karen Fung <ka...@countablyinfinite.ca> wrote:
> No problem re: telling Cheryl. Thanks for the heads up, I'm not nearly
> as good as I should be about keeping my phone within feeling or seeing
> distance. I don't like to feel like an organizer, which is why I
> sometimes hesitate at being the face for media. But I suppose they'll
> always need someone to tell it, and I talk fast (a bad thing for
> media, I also admit).
>
> I'll let you know how it goes, if she gets in touch with me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Karen
>
> On 11/28/07, Paul Hillsdon <phil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey Karen,
> >
> > I was speaking to a writer at the Courier yesterday, Cheryl, about iMove,
> > and ended up proposing TransitCamp to her as a potential story. She wanted
> > to contact you ASAP today, so I gave her your email and cell #. I hope that
> > was okay of me to do. If not, I will refrain from doing so in the future,
> > without prior notification from you.
> >
> > - Paul
> >
>
>
> --
> Karen Fung
> ka...@countablyinfinite.ca
>
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Karen Fung
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Luke Closs
Isn't a transit camp _supporting_ not conflicting the idea of a day of
action for climate change?
Luke
Karen Fung
That's an excellent point, I hadn't thought of it that way. Maybe we
don't look like a big group of people on the news practicing what most
people conceive of as 'democracy in action'.....even though that's
what we sorta are? ;)
Karen
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Karen Fung
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Luke Closs
Luke