<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Douglas Rushkoff</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@contactcon.com">info@contactcon.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:30 AM<br>Subject: Contact September Update<br>To: Michel <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">Greetings WorldChangers!</span></h1>
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Contact is just around the corner (October 20), and I wanted to take a moment to frame the day and answer some of the questions that have been coming in. The flow and purpose of the whole day is described on the Contact website�<a href="http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=e4ddb2f362&e=be9ef15c93" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"></span><span>here</a>.</p>
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The day will have two main components:�</p>
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A "collaboratory" of attendee-conceived and moderated conversations.</li>
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The Bazaar - a two-hour midday festival of demos.�</li>
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We'll precede (and occasionally interrupt) all this with short "provocations" from selected featured participants.�</p>
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Both the Collaboratory and and Bazaar are planned to produce results. The Collaboratory will be organized around the framing question, <b>What concrete steps can we take to realize a true potential of the networked era?</b> In the opening session, I will pose that question, and ask individual attendees to propose ideas, answers, projects - however half-baked. Whoever has an idea will explain it in a sentence or two to the whole group, and then pick a place and time to hold a session about it. There will be three time slots for sessions, and about twenty spaces in which to convene them.�This means up to twenty different sessions may be occurring simultaneously around the space.</p>
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Once a couple of dozen sessions have been announced, we'll start�the first scheduled round of sessions. People choose which session they want to attend, and can move from one session to the other if they feel like it. Each session will pick a moderator and a reporter. The reporter will post the results of the meeting to the Contact BBS. Each session becomes a new topic header, and can form the basis of an ongoing discussion.�</p>
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We'll come together a couple of times during the day to assess progress, convene additional sessions, and make adjustments. At the last of those meetings, we'll review some of the day's highlights and pick the three or four initiatives that we really want to followup on immediately. Then we'll conduct final sessions for each of those initiatives to discuss next steps. (Those ideas will also have the opportunity for special placement on Indiegogo, if they choose to take advantage of that fundraising route.)�</p>
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Meanwhile, the Bazaar and lunch will take place midday, for about two hours. The Bazaar will be set up something like a science fair, with all demo stations operating simultaneously and attendees moving freely from station to station. Any attendee may sign up for free space at the Bazaar, and also has the option to enter the Bazaar Awards - now sponsored by Pepsi - for the chance to win one of three $10,000 prizes.�</p>
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I will be selecting a panel of judges based on how many projects have applied for the Bazaar Awards. They will be looking for the most compelling and achievable ideas, at any stage of their development from raw idea to fully released and functional technology. It can be anything from software to a cafe, an art installation to a communications infrastructure, a suitcase technology to a plan for a local satellite launch. Anything that you feel helps realize the underlying potential of the networked era. We've chosen not to limit the criteria more than this, because we don't want to impose a top-down agenda on nascent, bottom-up ideas. �</p>
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The awards will be announced at the close of the day. �</p>
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We are currently have some discussions about Contact on a <a href="http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=f4efacc8bc&e=be9ef15c93" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Googlegroup</a><b>.� </b>You are all welcome to join in. We are also opening up the <a href="http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=7507addddb&e=be9ef15c93" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Contact forums</a>�right now, for people interested in discussing ideas or networking in advance. These forums are also where our Collaboratory sessions will be recorded on the day of Contact, and where Contact MeetupEverywhere participants can also post the results of their own meetings. The Contact Forums will be maintained after the event, as well, for ongoing discussions, networking, and project development.�</p>
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The Google Groups and Forums will be the best place to do any organizing and introducing you might want to do in advance. People are also coming to those spaces to announce additional opportunities for networking.�</p>
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As always, there is plenty more information under the About menu at <a href="http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=833723cb62&e=be9ef15c93" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com" claiming to be</b></font> contactcon.com</a> including the day's schedule, housing options, Bazaar registration, opportunities for sponsorship and for volunteering, and so on. The doors open at 7:30am, and the program begins at 9am.</p>
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The address for Angel Orensanz is <a href="http://pivotcon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb70abd2409c125993e4ad46c&id=073f4db5f3&e=be9ef15c93" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">172 Norfolk St., Manhattan.�</a></p>
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More soon,</p>
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Douglas</p>
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