Entreprenuer and open space evangelist Bob Waldron gave a session at BarcampMilwaukee5 about creating sustainable communities at BarCampMilwaukee5 on October 2, 2010. Says Bob, developing new and exciting communities is well and good, but the successful communities are the ones that make an effort to achieve sustainability.

“Out of 100 people, one person is going to make something happen; about nine of them will help out, and the other 90 will participate, but are not going to make it a success.”

Audio was taken by the Zoom Handy Recorder H2 in Session Room 1 at Bucketworks. I trimmed, normalized and compressed it, then uploaded it to the mighty Archive.org.. You can also download an MP3 file if you’d like. (And for our freedom loving friends, enjoy an Ogg file.)

I'll be posting more recordings from BarcampMilwaukee5 as I get time to upload them.

Sometimes, I just can't believe that @AsheDryden puts up with Pete and Me. Well... me.

Anyway, I've agreed to take on the title of "T-Shirt Czar" for Barcamp Milwaukee 4. This is a thankless job, because it will be nigh impossible to follow in the footsteps of the mighty Mike Rohde, but the good news is that I'm not actually going to try.

Here's the thing: With the caliber of designers involved in Web414-- BarcampMKE's sponsor organization-- I can manage this T-shirt thing and hopefully let the designer do the design work-- let me run around making the phone calls and moving the data.
So watch this space for t-shirt contest ideas. If you're a hot-shit designer in the Milwaukee space, shoot me a note, because otherwise I'm going to end up designing the t-shirt and it will probably have skulls or birds or pirates on it. That's supposed to be discouragement, people.

Let the t-shirt ideas flow, friends. Lets go!

I hope you guys can make it to Bucketworks this weekend. It's one of the last big wikification/cleanup weekends before BarCampMilwaukee.
October is the Bucket's big grand re-opening. Thanks to some flood damage, the bucket had a rough summer, but she's had her rehab, and she's bubbling over with creative energies once again. Come be part of the reemergence of one of Milwaukee's most awesome centers of probellious excellence. Bucketworks Needs You.

Here's what the delightful Bucketworks Co-Director Jenadenda has to say on the subject:

While we'll be doing a lot of work during the September 27 Physical Wiki Day (Register here) but if you can't make it on Saturday we'll be needing the help all throughout the next couple of weeks leading into BarCampMilwaukee on October 3rd.

I'm not sure if Gaia and I can make it, but we will try. We hope to see you there.

In an effort to spark my designer friends to make some BarCampMilwaukee3 fliers, I've gone ahead and made a demonstration of why I'm a lousy designer.

Free to remix, redistribute, sticker, and poster. Make this better. Then I'll see you at BarCamp Milwaukee.