Take No Prisoners

It's 7:45pm and I should be tweaking HTML on my Wife's website in preparedness for tomorrows inaugural coming out of her childrens clothing brand which to date has been a knock-out of a learning process.

So.....I get to my inbox and there is an email from Teemu Lienonen ( Finland) saying he's visiting Australia in July 2011. Well, this blogpost is the first of a few as I prepare myself to meet with him in Melbourne.

To meet with him and discuss what he is observing, seeing, thinking and doing in the northern hemisphere. Last time I met him in person we spoke of getting out for a late night drinking session complete with a Rammstein overture. Not to mention Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Slayer, W.A.S.P and a host of others too long ago to muster up through the crinkly concoids.

Mindful that we have a South Australia meeting in August for the TALO Swapmeet it's important that we also muster up the energy to celebrate the 5th Annual FLNW event. I'm calling it in with little time left and no budget.

I'm declaring an interest in meeting in Melbourne on the 18th and 19th July 2001 with Teemu and whomever wishes to join us in an "unconferenced" circular conversation with the principle focus or premise being that of discussing what it means now to living / working / being in a networked world and what it now means on learning/teaching/administrating.

No discussions on funding.

Just get to Melbourne and who knows....before we arrive I might just have some surprises to report upon in this very blog :)

ps. given that Teemu will have travelled this far I think it only fair he has a welcoming party and none better than his own networked family.

pss. whats with the "no prisoners" bit.......well, here's a little introductory thinking piece as we prepare for the inter-webians.

Touch Down | Take Off

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As the FLNW3 crew touchdown back in NZ, Australia, America and so on there are another bunch of TALOians about to take off.

Likewise the whole concept will be on the discussion agenda at MobilizeThis2009.

So much for preserving the planet one might say. Indeed it's foremost in my mind so thats I suppose why I'm making best use of minimal web connections to bring the stories around full loop and make something from it all.

I'm heading through to the GNI Symposium with John and at this late hour and when I should be in bed I'm thinking to myself that it would be great to get some reflections conversation happening with Leigh & Sunshine in Dunedin as well as some connected online convresation going with others who werent able ( nor privileged enough ) to travel the distance to the big great land of the long white chemtrails.

This beautiful rare 2007 Tony Moody Shiraz I'm drinking is helping ease the guilt somewhat though :)

Round 3

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Stephan and I spoke tonight somewhat briefly of the current FLNW3 consortium.....appreciatively, reflectively.....with a considered and mindful series of recollections of times had and shared from similar such events in the past.

I've followed the Flickr feed, watched the wiki grow, listen to mutterings in Twitter and been sent the odd snippets via email and up to now havent felt compelled to say much until tonight.

It's good to see Leigh, Sunshine, Nancy, Micahel, Derek etc. enjoying each others company and really great to see some visuals of other parts of the world I'm yet to visit. It's also a powerful set of concepts and ideas being thrashed about in the context of the conversations that are bound to be shared as a result of the trip.

So despite my musings in the past as to whether electronica had a soul it seems that the myth of the perpetual white holiday is exactly that. We are glad to see things have deepened beyond travel notes and even better to "feel" that things are connected.

".......Connection, even love, sustains over distance when we make the choice and
intent to do so. "

Nancy White
FLNW3
Seattle 2009

FLNW08 - How Was It For You ?

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Download the MP3 - 5.4 mbs

Michael and I stood on the balcony of this Melbourne motel room the other day and recounted what went right ( and wrong and in between ) over the last 6 months with FLNW.

Quite frankly, I'm exhausted.

Melborne for me has been the highlight. Why ?

Because I was able to put face to names, eat dinner and laugh, recount and interrogate exactly what it means to live and learn in this networked world.

For me FLNW has been a massive learning curve. As I stated at the Linux 2008 conference here yesterday, everytime I attempted to do anything FLNW slipped away from me like a oil covered swine on a slippery slope.

TALO has remained elusive. FLNW has only hastened my enquiry as to what it means to live in a networked world.

I take nothing for granted. The human connections are what mattered most for me.

You mean the most to me.

Bugger this technology that seems to want to taunt us though :)

Over and out.