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She’s Geeky: An Women’s Tech (un)conference

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ted
on September 20, 2007
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In February this year, I had the pleasure of working with Kaliya, co-facilitating Recent Changes Camp Portland. She now announces She’s Geeky: An Women’s Tech (un)conference:

I am producing another unconference this fall. It is for women working in technology called She’s Geeky. It is October 22-23 in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum.
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We have three simple goals with the event.

  • Exchange skills and learning from women from diverse fields of technology.
  • Discuss topics about women and technology.
  • Connect the diverse range of women in technology, computing, entrepreneurship, funding, hardware, open source, nonprofit and any other technical geeky fields.

Conference Location Decided!

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ted
on June 27, 2007
in Chicago, friends, globalchicago, invitations and open space
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I’m very excited to have the Conference right here in my neighborhood. The full (updated) invitation:

You are invited to co-create the 4th Annual Chicago Conference for Good. PLEASE join us, bring friends and add spirit! Share this invitation with neighbors and colleagues, people you’d like to connect or reconnect with this July!

“…cuz people
who do stuff
need to know
more people
who do stuff.”
– ted ernst

Localizing Global Change: Issues and Opportunities

July 19-22 in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, IL USA

Discussion

What kind of stuff
have we been doing?

  • hosting and attending green dinners,
  • community gardening,
  • blogging,
  • digital excellence & inclusion,
  • chicago conservation corps training,
  • growing food,
  • organizing block clubs and parties,
  • depaving your yard and inviting neighbors,
  • restoring a riverbank,
  • planting native prairie in your local park
  • organizing your neighbors to work with the alderman or CAPS to get a camera,
  • or get one taken out,
  • recruiting volunteers,
  • organizing safe routes to school,
  • buying organic foods,
  • experimenting with new tech ways to connect people,
  • and living with less tech
  • driving less,
  • recycling more,
  • ensuring all differently brained people are seen as human beings,
  • seeing to it that the ADA laws are followed,
  • making social activists are supported and nurtured,
  • urban chicken egg farming
  • block clubs
  • traffic calming
  • peace parks
  • “doing.”… ,

The momentum of community is rising. Please join us! …for More and More.More and more people. More and more resources. More and more easy. More and more connected. More and more green. More and more power to do good things, in more and more local neighborhoods and organizations.

Three years ago, some of us convened a small but national conference on the future of philanthropy, technology and community action. Two years ago, more of us joined in to create a second and international conference which was also the first-ever omidyar.net members conference. Last year we did it again, and along the way these conversations have sparked half a dozen more conferences and action on at least four continents.

All the while, you’ve been busy doing all the things you do to try make the world a better place, and you’ve been noticing that more and more people are getting together for global community good. This year’s global gathering in Chicago is going to focus on “doing”. All good work. All kinds of local action. We welcome good people from everywhere to join with people we are actively inviting who are “doing” in Chicago neighborhoods. Bring your own local doing to share. We want to do more and more in all localities, and to do it more together.

This year’s conference will follow the same simple and active format as all the previous conferences. We’ll gather for one big opening, create a working agenda that includes all of our most important issues and questions, meet with friends and colleagues to actively address everything on the agenda, document and publish our notes online, and head back out into all the things we are doing with more energy, more clarity and more connections.

The momentum of community is rising. Please join us!
…for more and more global good on the ground where you live.

WHEN? July 19-22, 2007 …music and barbecue on Thursday night, conference all day Friday and Saturday, finishing by noon on Sunday, with airport drop-offs or excursions for out-of-towners on Sunday afternoon.

WHERE? General Robert E. Wood Boys & Girls Club, 2950 W. 25th Street, Chicago IL 60623

WHO SHOULD COME? Anyone who wants to get more and more into community, technology, environment, and other social justice kinds of work and practice. Anyone who wants to make more and more connections between all these sorts of things. And anyone who wants to have more and more fun and friends in the process of community leadership.

WHAT TO BRING? Food to eat/share, materials to show/share, ideas and questions, issues and projects that you care about and want to inform and be informed by others AND a total of $40 (scholarships may be available) to pay for basic costs of site and materials for all three days of meetings.

NOW WHAT? Send an email to register@globalchicago.net (or any other address we like), make a payment at paypal (details forthcoming), forward this invitation to friends and colleagues, people you work with — and people you want to work with. we’ll send you details about places and times and be glad to answer any other questions. Stay tuned to www.GlobalChicago.net for more information.

CO-CONVENERS? Ted Ernst, Hermilo Hinojosa, Kachina Katrina Zavalney, Michael Herman, Michael Maranda, Julie Peterson, Jean Russell, Dave Chakrabarti, and You…

July conference in Chicago on neighborhood leadership – join us!

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ted
on June 7, 2007
in Chicago, invitations and open space
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    You are invited to co-create the 4th Annual Chicago Conference for Good. PLEASE join us, bring friends and add spirit! Share this invitation with neighbors and colleagues, people you’d like to connect or reconnect with this July!

“…cuz people
who do stuff
need to know
more people
who do stuff.”
– ted ernst

   
 

Localizing Global Change: Issues and Opportunities
   

 

July 19-22 @ Location TBA, in a Neighborhood, Chicago, IL USA

     
   

Discussion

What kind of stuff
have we been doing?

  • hosting and attending green dinners,
  • community gardening,
  • blogging,
  • digital inclusion,
  • chicago conservation corps training,
  • growing food,
  • organizing block clubs and parties,
  • depaving your yard and inviting neighbors,
  • restoring a riverbank,
  • planting native prairie in your local park
  • organizing your neighbors to work with the alderman or CAPS to get a camera,
  • or get one taken out,
  • recruiting volunteers,
  • organizing safe routes to school,
  • buying organic foods,
  • experimenting with new tech ways to connect people,
  • and living with less tech
  • driving less,
  • recycling more,
  • ensuring all differently brained people are seen as human beings,
  • seeing to it that the ADA laws are followed,
  • making social activists are supported and nurtured,
  • urban chicken egg farming
  • block clubs
  • traffic calming
  • peace parks
  • “doing.”… ,

  The momentum of community is rising. Please join us! …for More and More.More and more people. More and more resources. More and more easy. More and more connected. More and more green. More and more power to do good things, in more and more local neighborhoods and organizations.Three years ago, some of us convened a small but national conference on the future of philanthropy, technology and community action. Two years ago, more of us joined in to create a second and international conference which was also the first-ever omidyar.net members conference. Last year we did it again, and along the way these conversations have sparked half a dozen more conferences and action on at least four continents.All the while, you’ve been busy doing all the things you do to try make the world a better place, and you’ve been noticing that more and more people are getting together for global community good. This year’s global gathering in Chicago is going to focus on “doing”. All good work. All kinds of local action. We welcome good people from everywhere to join with people we are actively inviting who are “doing” in Chicago neighborhoods. Bring your own local doing to share. We want to do more and more in all localities, and to do it more together.

This year’s conference will follow the same simple and active format as all the previous conferences. We’ll gather for one big opening, create a working agenda that includes all of our most important issues and questions, meet with friends and colleagues to actively address everything on the agenda, document and publish our notes online, and head back out into all the things we are doing with more energy, more clarity and more connections.

The momentum of community is rising. Please join us!
…for more and more global good on the ground where you live.

WHEN? July 19-22, 2007 …music and barbecue on Thursday night, conference all day Friday and Saturday, finishing by noon on Sunday, with airport drop-offs or excursions for out-of-towners on Sunday afternoon.

WHERE? TBA (ideally someplace embedded in the life of a Neighborhood, Chicago)

WHO SHOULD COME? Anyone who wants to get more and more into community, technology, environment, and other social justice kinds of work and practice. Anyone who wants to make more and more connections between all these sorts of things. And anyone who wants to have more and more fun and friends in the process of community leadership.

WHAT TO BRING? Food to eat/share, materials to show/share, ideas and questions, issues and projects that you care about and want to inform and be informed by others AND a total of $40 (scholarships may be available) to pay for basic costs of site and materials for all three days of meetings.

NOW WHAT? Send an email to register@globalchicago.net (or any other address we like), make a payment at paypal (details forthcoming), forward this invitation to friends and colleagues, people you work with — and people you want to work with. we’ll send you details about places and times and be glad to answer any other questions. Stay tuned to www.GlobalChicago.net for more information.

CO-CONVENERS? Ted Ernst, Dave Chakrabarti, Michael Herman, Christina Jordan, Michael Maranda, Julie Peterson, Jean Russell, and You…


Marshall Square Parkway Garden Club update – May 19th is planting day!

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ted
on April 26, 2007
in Chicago, garden, invitations and the Commons
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Since my last update about my Marshall Square Parkway Garden Club C3 project update, I’ve spoken with Laura about the corner store being our first planting location on May 19th and with Marissa about ordering supplies from the city. Yay! Please let me know if you can come that day. I’ll be announcing the time once I know when I can pick up the supplies.

How to Disappear by Pete Leki

Published
by
ted
on March 29, 2007
in Chicago, book, compost, dreams, friends, housing, humanize, invitations, meaning in life, the Commons and transportation
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Please go read this very short book by Pete Leki: How to Disappear. I love it. I’ve also been working on a wiki with Michael here How to Disappear Wiki. We’re not sure yet what’ll come of the wiki project, but we’d really like to see this book widely read.

Digital Be-In: April 21st in San Francisco

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ted
on March 7, 2007
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Welcome to Digital Be-In 15: Biomimicry, an Earth Day Activation for leading initiatives in the sustainability movement with a focus on green tech and bio-inspired systems. Since 1988 the Digital Be-In has been a vital bellwether and catalyst of the new media world, contributing creativity and humanistic spirit to the development of the digital tools and networks that are transforming global culture. Now we are seeing the emergence of the next wave…the Green era is dawning now, just as the digital era did two decades ago: witness the many pioneering companies and institutions, breakthrough products and projects, and innovative civic agencies and communities that are defining and building a sustainable human civilization.

Uganda in Chicago

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ted
on January 29, 2007
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I met with Harish Patel this morning.  He’s one of the organizers of Project FOCUS, which has a photography exhibit on now at UIC in Chicago.  Harish and friends (he’s a 21 year old college student) were inspired by Invisible Children, a documentary by other young people, about the child soldiers in Uganda.  Harish and his group then went to Uganda and facilitated Ugandan children’s creation of art, photographs of some of their life experiences.  If you’re in Chicago, go see the exhibit.  Good stuff.

RecentChangesCamp07 – Portland, OR – Feb 2-4

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ted
on January 4, 2007
in humanize, invitations, open space and travel
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I will be co-facilitating this event and would love to see you there!Invitation – RCC 2007

You are reading this Invitation because someone (Ted Ernst, actually) wants to see you at RecentChangesCamp 2007. RecentChangesCamp is an un-conference (BarCamp) of, for, and by folks who want to ‘build communities worth having’ both online and off. This especially includes the OpenTechnology/OpenCulture movement. We are coming together to make connections, write code, have fun, revise the CyberneticRoadmap, do as much good work as each and every one of us can … and then go home more connected, more energized and more capable of building great communities and the tools they depend on. Bring your friends and join a good party that’s growing even better!”

The day before, also in Portland, Emerging Futures Network is having a one-day gathering: http://emergingfutures.net

Invitation to Dec 1-4 event in Washington State

Published
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ted
on October 27, 2006
in humanize and invitations
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Emerging Futures Network – Doing together what we cannot do alone.
Building An Evolving Infrastructure: Connecting Networks for Action
By ted

Blaine, Washington — Dec 1-4, 2006

This is an invitation. Please join us! If you are engaged in making the world a better place via championing your own initiative or supporting others, jump in with a group of like-minded partners to develop something bigger than any one of us. Join us as we uplift our interconnecting visions and weave together projects for a better world, one that we cannot initiate alone. Come explore and cultivate our collective potential and forge new alliances.

Inviting Individual Actions to Meet: ALL AT ONCE

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ted
on September 5, 2006
in Chicago, humanize, invitations and open space
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Michael and I have been talking about a Chicago event. He writes:

Some of us are talking now about the invitation to a Chicago Summer 2007 conference that would be the extension of our Giving Conference in 2004 and Omidyar Member conferences in 2005 and 2006.In writing the invitation, I suggested we focus on what it is we’re interested in, and who we *would* invite, rather than the groups of people that we think *should* be there. Too often, *should* begins as a fantasy and ends up as the excuse for NOT acting, not inviting. Better to focus on what we already care about and the people we already know or really want to meet and connect with.

Here is my interest and what/who I’d like to invite in Chicago:

My work with the Humanist Movement is all about non-violence, and the connection between personal and social change.  For the last two years I’ve been mostly working with people active in the social realm, helping them connect with whatever personal work might be helpful for them to be even more effective in the world.

I also have quite a few connections with people very active in healing, massage and other energy work, and other places that seem to me to be about personal development and wellness.  I’d love to invite them to connect with the socially active people above for everyone’s and the planet’s benefit.

And I really like the name ALL AT ONCE because the world is getting faster and faster, and we’re in need of some very grounded, but very immediate work that’s going to take all of us working in many areas ALL AT ONCE.

Please let me know if you’re interested in inviting to this event, and thus interested in co-creating the invitation that you’ll be excited about distributing to those you want to attend.