An abundance to talk about
Posted by austin under Canada Tech Scene, Interview
Despite the long post about community production and crowdsourcing resulting from my lunch with Kempton, it was in fact a small part of a pretty wide ranging conversation.
Kempton even got me to open up a bit about some of the ideas we are playing with surrounding Project Ojibwe.
You can read Kempton’s write up of our lunch here. We had a wide ranging conversation about many interesting topics including our shared interest in Richard Feynman who has always been a hero of mine.
I didn’t go into the details about Project Ojibwe but we spoke about some of the goals & inspiration for the project. While I doubt the “Saving the World Wikipedia style” tagline will stick around - it’s a cute reference to the ideas we spoke about.
Alex Eberts and I started to discuss a couple of years ago about the power of online communities to achieve things collectively that single groups of individuals could not. (Wikipedia is great example of this)
Inspired by some events surrounding the TED conference that I attend and some conversations Alex had at the Sundance Film Festival with some social entrepreneurs we started to discuss ways to help people form communities and work together to make the work (oops) world a better place.
Project Ojibwe is one idea on how to do accomplish this.
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December 7th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Hi Austin,
I kinda like the tagline “Saving the World Wikipedia style” (smile) but may be a new one can be created as more information about Project Ojibwe is known or announced.
Allow me to think out loud here. I think it may be a good idea to slowly release the ideas of Project Ojibwe for us to digest. One thing that worries me is what I call the “Segway lessons”. I think Dean Kamen’s Segway is a great idea and technological advancement but there were so much hype preceding it to make its success so much more difficult to achieve.
I may be wrong, but making the world a better place (a goal that I deeply believe) is up there with Dean’s claim. I and other people who know you and your track record now has an expectation that we have setup already. Again, just my 2 cents.
Looking forward to more publicly available details on Project Ojibwe.
Cheers,
Kempton