iCommons Summit 2008 planning workshop

I have attended the workshop of Local Context Global Commons
as well as iCommons Summit planning workshop held in Johannesburg last week.








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We are trying to make this year's iSummit planning process
as transparent as it could be, and include as much community input as there could be
to realize a Summit that the participants really expect.

We had interesting opinions... such as no more keynotes
but more sessions with great people that we have never heard of...
more fresh ideas, new experimental projects, etc.

On the other hand, we discussed that we would need a series of sessions
for the people who had not participated in the iCommons Summit in the past
-especially the locals- which would be moderated sessions such as
keynotes, Creative Commons 101-type sessions, translated in Japanese and English.
 
More places to hang around so that we have more intimate communication,
more documentation, more involvement of the locals was another topic.

You can see the full documentation of the workshop here,
as we are updating the meeting notes on wiki - as I blog right now:

DAY 1:

As Daniela of iCommons writes here on iCommons blog,

We kicked off the event with a sugar-induced frenzy involving building 3D models of our dream iCommons Summit venues. This allowed us to identify a framework for how we could structure the programme, based on the activities and spaces suggested by the workshop participants. We also brainstormed around our Summit audience, our goals and suggested tracks or themes for the summit.

we did "candy prototyping" of the ideal summit framework as well as venue,
and worked on SWOT analysis of important topics. We focused on "ideal" on Day 1.




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You can see the video of the presentation of candy prototyping here:




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You can see the meeting notes of Day1 here:


DAY 2:

On Day 2, we focused on reality as you can see here on the meeting notes,
working on risk analysis, task analysis, etc.

We, the Japan team gave a presentation on the actual summit venue and
some input on reality of the Japanese cultural, linguistic, legal and funding landscape.

Sapporo Convention Center floor plan actually looks like this:

1st floor:


















2nd floor:


























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All of my photos can be seen here:
All of the photos from the participants can be seen here: