I’ve been quiet here, but have been blogging a lot at the Asia Source II blog. Its been fun facilitating the Open Publishing sessions - I’ve learnt so much myself! We’ve had huge challenges with connectivity - 120 of us sharing a 256 kbps modem; trying to get Plone then Drupal working and finally resorting to Wordpress for the live blog! Rather than writing it entirely, I’ve got lots of folks from different countries and tracks sharing their perspectives. Lazy me :)

What’s the blog about …
This blog is meant to capture the colours, flavour, essence and spirit of Asia Source II
in Sukabumi, Indonesia. We’ll be sharing our discussions from the
sessions, lots of fun stuff, some serious FOSS wisdom, and even some
poetry. We’d love it if you jump in and add your perspectives to the
many conversations and exchanges we will have in this space. The Asia
Source II wiki will have more detailed content and reports.

Here’s one of my early postings there:

We’re working in military tents!

There are four learning tracks
for the morning sessions. Three of the four groups are working in
military tents, fitted with 8-10 computers. The uber geeks have a
classroom, where they can lock up all their cool gizmos like wireless
transmitters.

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Here’s what Track 1 on Open Publishing had as their objective for the Camp Blog they are running as one of their projects:

- to create a lasting online documentation of the camp

- to capture the “spirit” of Asia Source

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They’ve been blogging, learning how to resize and insert images today, tomorrow they go podcasting. Fun!

Go over to the blog and join the conversations there!