Probably you can review, and comment.
Cannot create or diffuse.
Just spread someone else's messages, ideas, products.
Then we've been invited to Drumbeat events in Berlin on May 6th and 7th.
-AMAZING-
The first thing that was clear to us is that such events are pretty different from the ones we pictured in our mind before.
They have to be participatory.
They need to involve people and stimulate as much creativity as they can.
There is no audience, there are no lecturers.
On May 6th we were trained to facilitate and lead such an event.
Let me tell you: I've learnt more from that experience than in 5 years of hacktivism.
The spirit we all had was something very fresh, and true.
None of us knew each other, more or less. But all of us were pervaded of a sense of participation.
May 7h. We were facilitating.
On our marks, get set, go!
Fifty of us, more or less. Fifty people eager to share, learn and discuss.
First: the spectrogram.
It's a great way to discuss about some controversial topics, letting people making their point and the other express agreement (far left on an imaginary line), or disagreement (far right on the same line).
Every point made, can make you reinterpret the statement and move yourself along the line.
Right after that great icebreaking activities, we went through a lot of participatory activities.
Speedgeeking, then.
If you have a project idea, you probably want to share it. You have 3 minutes for describing it. Once for each rotating group, not much differently from speeddating.
You can obviously propose your project for the speedgeeking time; this gives everyone a rough picture of what are the project around, and collect interesting and quick feedback.
Everyone of us had the chance to propose a topic and gather other people in groups to discuss about that.
And the purpose was to tell all the others what are the result of the discussion.
Very effective.
-A-M-A-Z-I-N-G-
Amazing, thanks to the wonderful teaching by Allen Gunn: Squirrel!
Amazing, thanks to the Mozilla Foundation guys: Mark Surman, Henrik Moltke, Barbara Hüppe, Alina Mierlus, Nathaniel James.
Amazing, thanks to the beautiful people being there.
Make stuff. Meet People. Keep the web open.
