Opening on Bowen Island
Technically, I am (at this very moment) in the middle of facilitating a community gathering here on Bowen Island, 18 minutes (by ferry) west of Vancouver BC Canada. Our gathering question and purpose is “How Can We Make Snug Cove an Inviting Place to Live, Work and Play?” We are using OpenSpaceTech and the participants are all off working now, so I’ve plenty of time make this entry. Today is the first day of a two day meeting. Here are the invitation for this event and the Institute that we’ve created to be one of the sponsors and official spaceholders for this work. As local organizer Chris Corrigan says, the Institute started as a joke, but then it got serious. And when it gets too serious, it gets to be a joke again. In the meantime, there are a bunch of people here talking about things that they care about, listening to each other’s ideas, and coming up with new ways to address ongoing community challenges together.