So the past hour or so has been a meeting and melding of minds, as geeks of all stripes gathered in small groups to hammer through projects together. Seth got newbies blogging, there was a group talking about Tagging to Save the World, the Drupal geeks gathered to do their thing (this happens all over the world, every time more than two of them get together), some folks Mashed Up some maps, others talked about Microformats (I finally found out what those are), some people got initiated into the Cult of Second Life (I checked it out but my feelings about video games run deep. I'm sorry.), Rolf demonstrated the new Melt social networking tool for climate change action, and I can't remember what else. There was more! Much more!

Free and Low-Cost Wireless Session

(disclaimer - a lot of this session was over my head and so i am not going to pretend that these notes are awesome. if you were there and you have suggestions, please post them in the comments!)

Speakers:
Jim Forster
Chris Vein
Esme Vos
Lauren-Glenn Davitian

Jim Foster

Bottom of the Pyramid and ITC- even poor people spend money on communications. Even the poorest will spend 5% on communications.

- communication leads to transparency, which leads to less corruption, and better government

Mesh Networking - wireless nodes with clever routing to pick the best path

I'm Sarah Pullman and I'm blogging live from the session on distributed grassroots marketing. The speakers are Elisa Camahort, Tara Hunt, Chris Messina, and it's being moderated by Marnie Webb. I'm definitely not catching everything and it won't all be totally correct but I hope you'll forgive me and find it useful anyway. :)

Elisa Camahort of BlogHer Conference

Speaks about how they made the website badge for BlogHer, and people totally took them and ran with them. Made up all kinds of spin-offs.

For someone who blogs a bunch and spends all her time on various Drupal sites, I was strangely nervous about getting around to this post. :)

My name is Sarah Pullman, and I wear a few hats these days. I am the conference coordinator and website manager for Web of Change (we just launched the site today, so if it's not a beautiful red-themed site when you visit, check back tomorrow), a fabulous inspiring social change technology conference up in BC in September. I am also the Online Community Manager for the DeSmogBlog, a site that exists to "blow off the PR pollution that clouds climate science." We expose all the unethical PR out there that's trying to confuse the public into believing that there actually is still a scientific debate about climate change. When I'm not doing those two things, I teach a bit of yoga, and work on my growing Yoga for Geeks idea (site desperately in need of some themeing love).