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Here's the Knight News Challenge Question and Answer with Susan Mernit portion of the video (i missed the last few questions because I ran out of disk space, this video was 800MB!). I think it answers a lot of the common questions and shows how Susan is an engaging, articulate and savvy person.

Read the whole thing from Richard to explore some possible Vancouver applications to the Knight News Challenge. And if you couldn't make last night's meetup last night, after the jump I have embedded a cameraphone video recording of Susan's Knight News Challenge presentation below. Susan's a really great speaker (so my video doesn't do her justice) and really articulated the program well and made me want to apply or at least jot some ideas on the Knight Vancouver wiki page.

QUOTE [From Just a Gwai Lo | Knight Foundation's News Challenge: What Project Would You Like to See About Vancouver?
]

Last night I attended a presentation by Susan Mernit (Twitter) about the Knight News Challenge, an initiative by the Knight Foundation to promote democracy and discourse through innovative digital (and social) media projects.

END QUOTE

Ooops forgot to blog about Mobile Camp Vancouver 2 unconference (topics and sessions decided the day of, all welcome from users to hard core devs to artists and sales and marketing folks!)

Here are my session ideas

• • session on SIFT Mobile Muse social media aggregator for SMS, video, photos, etc
  • Bug Labs - my Bug arrives in late September, app brainstorming session
  • BIKUX - linux stamp/beagle board/crazy apps on a portable connected
    solar powered Linux computere brainstorm session (e.g. games and geo
    apps)
  • Reinventing Nokia mobile  - Brainstorming session on cool
    things Nokia could/should do in light of the iPhone, Android, etc - I
    am going to Finland on September 8th for a Nokia Conference and might
    be able to give this feedback to them directly

As well i'd like to work with John Biehler, Parveen Kaler and others on some iPhone sessions:

1) state of jail break

2) tethering

3) app development commiseration (that NDA s*xors)

4) what's on your iPhone i.e. fav apps

See you all on Saturday September 6th at WorkSpace in Gastown!

In true BarCamp fashion, everybody (from guru to enthusiast to transit user to activist to everything in between) could pitch their session and we collaborated on the TransitCamp Vancouver schedule together.

They are all tagged transitcampvancouver or you can see them below (the original MP4 file is available if you are flash challenged.

Ask The Gurus Pitch from Stephen Rees:

Monica's suggestion pitch:

JMV's fun transit swag and art pitch

Ian King's 'how to participate and advocate' pitch

Communities Connecting via Transit

Transit Numerology

SPEC listens

Open Data for Transit

Improving Transfers in Transit

Software in Transit

Nomenclature in Transit

Jitneys and alternate transit

Improving the transit rider experience

Unwiring transit

Learning Transit Lessons from other cities

Thanks mostly to the hard work of Karen (Karen rocks; thanks for the hard work and great organizing!), today's Vancouver Transit Camp was fab! An atmosphere of respect, lots of great people and lots of insights learned! More later (my videos (200MB of videos take over an hour and half to upload!) are currently uploading to blip.tv and I have 2 flickr sets: one from my N95-1 cameraphone and one from my 20D)

Streaming video live from Nitobi Hack Day (247 Abbott, 3rd floor, come on down!) at rolandtanglao.com/mogulus and desperately seeking S60 python help (still can't get Bluetooth Console to work, help!)

[Original high quality MPEG4 file encoded using H.264]

Click To Play

Technology willing, I'll be videocasting live using ustream.tv tonight's Vancouver PHP meeting where Free Geek and the Lucene Search Engine will be presented. Come to Bryght at 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown and see it live from 6:30-8:30p.m. tonight if you don't feel like watching it on the internet!

Here's an N93 video of Introductions at Vancouver League of Drupalers January 2007 meeting last night (8 minutes 28 seconds; I missed some people because the N93 crashed and a few were late):

BarCamp Vancouver opening Video shot by Bryan Zug using JVC and iMovie stored on S3

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