Kaliya – think about your day, and a highlight you had or a question that you still have

Silona - Legislation.wikia.com was “a big hurrah”

is going to hook up w/ some community development people in Oakland.

thought legislation wiki was a great idea

good conversation about net neutrality and meeting people engaged in different parts of the process both locally in SF and at the state level

very interesting understanding of what people are doing on a tech level and how it’s filtering down to the grass roots level

getting a good idea of how politically organized OR NOT the tech community is and how to use the braintrust to bring something highly effective out into the streets

Kaliya – applying some network theory to tech organizing may be appropriate. movement as network (article by gideon rosenblatt). lets get issue & policy orgs linked up w/ constituent orgs.

Todd - that was a big part of the motivation for this day. we need to get away from trying to replicate the competition model of the corporate world. both using the tools available to us to coordinate to work in more cooperative ways and to change the way we think. and also to link up people who are working on different aspects of related issues.

Lillie – has done organizing for a long time. you can’t expect one community to act like another. each is unique. technologists are very strong individuals and self-contained. you’re not used to the touch-feely coalition thing. it goes against your zen existence. in the policy formation environment, you’ve got to identify as a group of people w/ other people. the pack mentality or is it PAC mentality. you need to form a group identity between organizations. that’s part of how you become a massive political force.

thinks tech people are used to organizing. e.g. IT deployment projects, open source software development, entreneurial enterprises, etc. they have a mental model for those realms, but not for the policy realm. but they’re good at analyzing the process. if you know how to organize and you know how to do process, you will be able to figure out how to merge the two.

Dan – there’s a real disconnect between the DC politico and West-coast tech communities. the channels of communication have become very personalized and they’re tremendously anti-Lessig. you need to overcome that barrier to be taken seriously.

Kaliya – Lessig is taken as a hero in the tech world.

Dan – we need to develop a constiuency outside of the beltway.

got good confirmation for future plans in the area of online deliberation

had idea for a while about helping small projects get their proposals out to the small consultants who are affordable but decided it might be better to build a simple tool

regrets that she wasn’t here in the morning but is glad to have attended the sessions she did because of the diversity of the people in them. non-profit, for-profit, people in law school who are trying to help libraries, etc.

first time being at one of these. there are a lot of microscopes—people looking at their one issue very closely. there’s a community, but not a constituency. if the tech community could pick one person and all agree to support that one person, we should run them for office. even if they just won a primary, politicians would look at us as a source of power. that’s the difference between a democracy and a republic. this is a republic.

thinks we need to make better ties between the people already in office who do “get it.” IPAC is also important.

the anti-war community was an example. it wasn’t making progress until it decided to elect Lamont.

Oliver w/ Attac Germany - fundraising and how to get people involved online – you can raise funds by empowering people. liked to see the sharing spirit. for those people dealing w/ IP issues, next year’s G8 summit will be in Germany. one of the most important topics will be int’l IP enforcement.

Kaliya – there wasn’t much talk about successes. the tech community in Europe has done amazingly well. we need to learn from that. we should contact them and get case studies.

Oliver – there’s a book on that. Mueller wrote a book about the campaign agaist software patents. he’ll put a link on the Wiki.

Todd - this was based on the barcamp idea, and didn’t require a lot of planning time. but thinks it was successful, based on the turnout of 60 people. hopes that everyone who came felt it was worthwile.

has anyone talked about a follow-on to come out of this meeting. did any other sessions have follow-ups? Chris & Tara talked about having an open data and open government event in their working space. wants to have something specifically focused on net neutrality.

Salona – the Legislation.wikia session was designed that way.

Lillie – picked up some good contacts and hopes to build a privacy coalition. has been wanting to expand her resources on state coalitions and has asked people to become part of a listserv. so that has been helpful.

Oliver – book is nolobbyistassuch.com not right url

Todd - one way to look at things you missed is to use the wiki. use the page w/ the session schedule. there’s no time limit on doing that. and if you were here and didn’t sign up, please put your name on the sign-up list.

Kaliya – we should circulate a flyer at SXSW

Todd - thanks to Peter & OSAF for providing their space to us

Peter – would be happy to host another one of these in 4-6 months. this space isn’t used on the weekends most of the time.

Dinner?