t=0 we’re building this as we go
Christine, hi! nice to meet you here as well and thanks David for making the introductions on fb :)
So getting you up to speed: We’re a crowd with members all across Europe, interested in a wide range of things: from alternative ways of living and working, to sustainable agriculture and new tools for civic participation, especially facilitated by new ICT, and art. Edgeryders started out first as a project funded by the Council of Europe, and now we’re on our own. The info Nadia posted above is from the first event we had in Strasbourg last June. Then we met in Brussels last December, and now we want to keep on doing it… but build it together from scratch (you saw the poll with the date, and talks on location).
Agenda: In both Lote and Lote2 our main goal was to get policy makers, Europeans and from national and local govs to come and work together with us on the solutions we think are contributing to more inclusive and fairer societies, and how we can better support these innovations through policy… Alternative currencies such as digital Bitcoins was actually the subject of one session. Aside from these sessions, we had another 2 days of “unconference” with informal presentations and group work, in the barcamp format.
We might get in funding to support people’s travel and accommodation, but people working to organize this are volunteering.
First thing would be to build the initial lineup of excited and generous people like you who want to help make this happen and see who’s up for what. So for starters I’d ask you what do you want to help with, generally speaking? Promotion to get more Greek participants already sounds great, last year a bunch of us translated participation calls into more languages… Are you into write-ups& content, social media outreach, maybe help design the visuals (avatars, banners for bloggers supporting us ), or maybe you want to help prepare a session on time banking? Feel free to suggest…
PS to better see what Edgeryders are doing, you might want to check out Petros’s Expedition Freedom to Greece this end of May.