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Re: writeup - WAS Re: montréal meetup

Posted by Grignon, Alain on May 04, 2006; 12:47pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/writeup-WAS-Re-montreal-meetup-tp523p531.html

Tracey,
 
I'm interested.
 

Alain Grignon

Landslide GIS Specialist / Spécialiste SIG en glissements de terrains

Geological Survey of Canada / Commission géologique du Canada

601 Booth st. / 601 rue Booth

Ottawa, Ont.

Tel: (613) 947-8773

http://landslides.nrcan.gc.ca/

 

 


From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: May 3, 2006 10:00 PM
To: civicaccess discuss
Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] writeup - WAS Re: montréal meetup

Niiiice!
Maybe some people in Ottawa would like to get together?
If anyone is interested drop me a line!

Tracey

Michael Lenczner wrote:
That was fun.

People that attended:

Stephane Guidoin, Daniel Haran (Halifax), Dory Kornfield (geography
masters + vol from WirelessToronto), Hugh (audio liberation - Librivox
and Collectik), Ella (local blogger + flashmob instigator), Andrew
someone (project manager + programmer).

Robin, Oliver and Judyth couldn't make it.

We thought it would be a really good idea to support Daniel's lawsuit
against his city (Daniel is trying to get information about location
of bus stops from Halifax).  Before the case went to court we could
try to get as many people as possible across Canada to ask for that
info from their own city).  Project name: The Bus Stops Here!   ;-)

For the record, i'm not sure that steph think's it's a great idea. 
;-)  We might have to re-think it.

Other points:
-how can we make sure that this type of work (informing citizens) is
funded / resourced?
-on the short term : building on small successes instead of tackling
large projects
-how can we coordinate with similar projects, potential allies
-develop the philosophical/political/economic arguments so the rest of
us can just copy-paste in our discussions, presentations, etc.
-branding - a civicaccess button/logo?  so that bloggers and sites
like howdtheyvote could show support.  similar to creativecommons
logo/button
-use the wiki to tell some stories about problems around lack of
access.  give examples
-much aggrement that we all hate pdf's. with a deep and vengeful rage.
-looking forward to getting RSS feeds from howdtheyvote to put on local blogs.

Very fun - and suprisingly productive.

Mike

On 5/2/06, Michael Lenczner [hidden email] wrote:
  
1) most importantly - je croit que j'ai réussi à mon examen français.
:-)  Seulement parce que c'est un cours a un niveau très bas.

2) Le meetup va etre mercredi entre 17hrs-19hrs.  On va etre au moins
6:  Daniel, Robin, Hugh, Dory, Stephane (G), Judyth et moi.

L'endroit c'est Laika - 4040 St. Laurent.  Coin Duluth.

http://www.laikamontreal.com/

If you need to call for any reason, my cell is 514-708-5112.

mike

On 4/30/06, Michael Lenczner [hidden email] wrote:
    
Daniel (Haran) est içi à Montréal alors j'ai pensée que nous devrions
profiter pour faire un premiére Montréal Meetup.  Si vous étes
interéssés, svp de me contacter hor-liste et on va trouver un temp on
commune pour se reunir.  Je sais que tout-le-monde est pressé, alors
j'imagine qu'on va seulement étre 4-5 persons, même si on est
plusieres à Montreal.

The location is definitely going to be laika, though ;-)

And wish me luck on my french exam tomorrow (2pm).  It seems that I'm
going to need it.

(J'espère que nous aurons beaucoup de discussion en français sur cette
liste. Particulièrement si si le sujet est lié au Québec.)

mike

      

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