Introduce yourself to the OS//OS community!

Hello.

I'm Dean.

I am a venture builder, currently associated with Javasparks (SG/PH), Dungeon Innovations (HK/PH), and Citi IO. As opposed to being a venture capitalist, I do not have that much money... Cheers... :D

Really, our group loves to be in the thick of things and just imagine and execute our way to solving problems.

We have been operating and building solutions in a way which we discovered is called as social enterprises, around in the community.

Doing good and well, not in the typical corporate social responsibility way or as an afterthought to success, but doing meaningful things which is success, in and of itself.

Two or three in our team may be able to fly to Wellington for the OS//OS; hopefully, I get to be one of them, schedules allowing.

We'd be very glad to just pitch any effort we can contribute: logistics, manning booths, covering, tweeting, writing articles, asking good questions, answering questions if we've got answer to it, clean ups, making the most of the event and not waste people's time by learning as much as we can (and sharing it), just being a jolly-good participant to make the event experience richer. :D

Would personally love to contribute to the Manifesto.

Good luck everyone. Cheers.

@megansalole I'm moving my response to the grand Open Society Manifesto concept over to the document itself. :)

Hi folks,

I'm Craig, a programmer with Enspiral Craftworks with a long interest in open source software projects. These days I try and work on social enterprise projects where possible, and try to hangout with people doing inspiring things. I live at Atamai Village where I do a lot of process and facilitation work.

Hey,

I'm Nick. I work as a web developer for Powershop, mostly doing Rails and JavaScript stuff.

I'm a graduate of the first cohort of Enspiral Dev Academy. I'm passionate about open source, and release all of my own personal projects on my Github.

I'm currently working on a decentralized version of Reddit in clientside JavaScript. I'm deeply interested in how we can lever open technology to better distribute power throughout society.

Looking forward to the event, and meeting y'all.t

Hi all, I'm Jay. I'm interested in the human, experienced dimensions of the open movement, and how these are located in intellectual/organisational frames and paradigms that enable social change.

My background is colourful, including postmodern critical theory, NGO management and sector development, integral study and practice around presence, scuba diving, startups, and more recently founding Nest Coworking in Melbourne. I work in storytelling, branding and communications (largely with social enterprise). I can talk up a storm, and I listen very intently :)

I'm drawn to the open movement for its offerings of alternatives to traditional organisational/knowledge structures, as well as its alternative to the sometimes narrow frame provided by startup and disruptive business culture.

I believe that people are wonderful, and that the institutional scale and structure of many endeavours let us down by producing (mostly) unintended consequences that undermine quality. In commerce, in government, in social change.

I'm interested in integrating strong frameworks of curation, held space, and leadership with organic, informal and biomimetic processes of collaboration. I'm interested in how the social movements of coworking and social enterprise can interact and support each other.

I'm currently working on a social enterprise model for an alternative to creative agencies. The idea is for communities of independent creative professionals to present and monetise their collaborative abilities to clients in a way that offers the best of creative agency offerings, while preserving independence, openness, flexibility, and supporting professional learning and development.

For me, this draws upon organic frameworks of collaboration, and asks questions of how flat and open structures can be enabled by integrating leadership and frame-setting. And how open commerce is integrated into it all.

I'm broadly aware of the open movement, but I haven’t dug very deep yet. It seems an enormously rich frame. I love the values-based drive it inspires, and the roving intellect with which it’s synonymous. I work closely with Open Food Network here in Melbourne, and its inspiring founders and team have really turned me on to the open movement.

I'm hugely excited at the learning opportunity of this conference! Hugely excited to meet people, hugely excited to share and learn from the wisdom of the group.

As a coworking founder, I'm also really interested to experience Enspiral and its people, and better understand its game-changing models. Enspiral is the coworking space that most interests me in the world, so I am stoked to be visiting!

Nest Coworking has been deeply involved in collaborating with social enterprise since it began early last year, but as a self-funded startup, I'm only just finding the oxygen for me to lift my eyes from daily work and connect beyond the community that's grown around Nest.

For me, coming to this conference is an intuitive step towards relationship that I hope will connect with a community engaged with a lot of the work I am doing and am yet to imagine!

Thanks for reading, looking forward to meeting, learning and creating together!

Jay

Wow, there are some amazing people from different backgrounds on this forum!

My name is Lena and, as a student, I am more or less of a baby when it comes to Open Source. Long story short, I finished my design degree a year and a half ago and went on to do some work with lots of different people, then realised my passion for the power of code as an extension of all the other digital stuff I've been exposed to, and am now studying web development and rapidly discovering hundreds of amazing projects and communities.

My first conscious experiences of Open Source probably came in the form of looking at licensing for project resources at design school and playing with Libre software to try out new techniques and expand my understanding of "digital".

Simultaneously, I was also spending a bit of time working with community groups and sharing knowledge with other young people, because growing our skill-base as a group just seemed to make sense (and still does). I have a deep appreciation for community-driven knowledge-building and am particularly interested in "Open Source" as an education mechanism because I think that without sharing and collaborating, most industries would become incredibly bland incredibly quickly.

I try my best to learn new things not only so that I can make better, more interesting work, but also so that I have more to share with the people around me.

All in all, I have a lot to learn, so I'm very excited to see more Open Source projects, listen to people's ideas and dreams for the future, and find out more about ways students and young professionals can contribute and help initiate meaningful change.

Thanks for reading and I am looking forward to meeting you all!

Cool story Lena,
I'd like to talk to you about open source and education, plus other stuff :)

Hi,
Amazing line up of speakers and attendees! Im Camia and coming up from Christchurch. Im particularly interested in learning more about core principles of what it means to be Open Source so I can apply it to a new business Im setting up around open source building development. I look forward to attending/sharing/expanding.

Bravo to all those organising!

Kindly,
Camia

My background is in supply chain and project management in the electronic product design and manufacturing industry, and my interest in open source principles centres around the development of collaborative rather than competitive enterprises.

Kia ora koutou

I'm an Enspiral Member and currently working for the Foundation as one of three organisational Catalysts. I'm also leading out on a project to document and share our Cultural Technology as an organisation in a way that makes it highly transferrable to other orgs. In Enspiral I also work in a team called The Purposive Collective doing creative community activation around social and environmental causes.

I'm most excited to be coming to OS // OS to talk to people about this idea of Open Source City-Making. I've recently moved to Christchurch and getting involved in some really exciting projects with the likes of @camiayoung to see if we can redemocratise the creation of our build environment and urban Commons. I'll be hosting an Open Space session on day 2 of the conference that I'm hoping people will be interested to join in the discussion for!