Are the vote statistics available?  I'd be surprised (and a little concerned) if not and statistics would be very useful for improving campaigns and voting systems. Thanks 

Ciao all - thanks for voting if you did.    Maybe Bija will be back next year or we can help with other projects...

Well done to all those who made it through and have a great conference.

I am still open to collaboration from London!

This interesting story demonstrates the difficulties of balancing competing interests working towards sustainable development.

What is more sustainable, the growth of Redwood trees; or chopping down those trees to stop overshadowing of solar panels?  The Solar Shade Control Act of California was deployed by a homeowner upset that his solar panels were shaded.  There have been moves to update the legislation to provides that if trees are there first they have priority but where trees grow to obscure a pre-existing panel, the owner of the panel can request the offending trees be removed.

trees v solar

People have asked if Bija means anything.   It means seed in Sanskrit.  We hope the mashup Project Bija will seed sustainable development and the name will appeal to an international audience, in particular, developing nations.

We have www.seedingsustainability.com and www.projectbija.com.

Thanks! If you have a submission, may the force be with you!

Blog posts for the mashup vote are being posted from the UK!

http://www.mysociety.org/2008/03/18/the-mashup-to-end-all-mashups/#comment-1939

http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/2008/03/mashing-up-for.html

 Hopefully more to follow.

Ok - spent a few hours re-establishing the website at Project Bija - it was previously set up for an initiative which we hoped would be able to launch at Live Earth.  Unfortunately we couldn't convince the producers of the biggest show on Earth in time...

The site is now hosted on 2 servers, using 2 urls, sourcing creative commons photos from Flickr, stencils produced in photoshop and open source blogging and bulletin board - so its mashin up the place already - still pretty lumpy though... We will unify everything but in the meantime wanted to put the very basics in place.

Branding is a bit all over the place, with different tag lines being used variously -

Seeding Sustainability

Hi everyone - just saying a big hello really and to say I hope you vote for me.  As a lawyer I can certainly collaborate with many people at the conference as well as building Bija which will be the main goal.

Thanks

Paul