PSFK Conference San Francisco / Global – Update

For those who made it on Monday 22nd, thanks again for coming by and contributing to the discussion about PSFK’s next major event. The notes below are a a summary take-away I took from the meeting on .

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Event: PSFK Conference San Francisco (or a Good Ideas type event)

The event is designed to create solution and a plan/template to challenges that come out of key trends that PSFK presents at the start of the day (and maybe online before hand).

One or several cross-discipline, multi-age teams will work together to get to these solutions. They will be assisted by an online audience who could possible do tasks to support each of the teams (e.g. research a subject, mock up a design for a product)

At the end of the day we will have something that can be shared – Blurb books maybe. The ideas with be sharable under creative commons. The teams working on them can take those ideas and continue to work on them – but also anyone else anywhere will be able can take those ideas (& plans & templates) too and develop them.

The output should have some sort of template or plan that allows anyone to pick up the books and create their wn solutions themselves (with the right resources etc).

We could consider getting a large corporation involved with helping define one of the challenges. They would have to be willing to give and share as much as the teams working on the challenges – and understand that the solution at the end of the day is sharable and that they would need to move fast to act on the ideas. Working with corporations could be a way to fund this venture.

Throughout the day Activists and Elders will act as catalysts. Elders are experienced masters who share working knowledge about how to get things done – Craig Newmark (community & web) Shephard Fairey (art & messaging), Jeffrey Hollender (eco & production), Cameron Sinclair. Activists are experts who can shine light on topic areas (e.g. Marieke van der Poel, Ed Cotton).

There could be some rules that may help focus the activity – maybe given out by chance: e.g. you have no finance, you have no staff.

We might do this on a Saturday (In September) with venue suggestions including Temple Nightclub, the LEED building at Berkely, Headlands. We may look to supporting the sales by raffling lunch with Elders or special special tickets to a private pre-event.

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I just heard that the AAAA APG event has been cancelled at the beginning of August. Maybe we could create this as a useful alternative to the event for local creative professionals?

For the initial thoughts on the event we discussed last week, check the conversation here.

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