Sounds very promising

I forgot to point out what a great opportunity this is to meet and work with many important, creative people. Thomas and I will also be there.

I would be interested in applying, but I noticed that there is no support for travel. I can get a place to stay, but I can't afford the airfare right now.

I think I would be very useful at the event for helping put people together, encouraging people to find resources that might not be monetary, supporting gift economy development, mission matching people and orgs. Being my usual nurturegirl self. I also think that it would be good to send me in that I am familiar with a good number of the projects that were posted by onet members, so I can try to be a representative in that way.

And of course I would love to see Haney and Thomas. :-)

I'm delighted to support Jean's nomination and I'll add John Berger, Julie Caldwell and Martin Rizzi.

Each would add to the richness of the conference.

Taking a cue from Rory's post below ... Mark Grimes would bring significant richness to the conference.

[edit: punctuation. Added Mark]

Thanks Peter - I had already made arangements to be there, so I will stay out of this one. I look forward to meeting with the onet team.

I'd also like to throw my support behind Jean for this one! She's a great connector and a provocative thinker who knows how to ask all the right questions. She would be an incredible asset to the conference, and coming back to ONet afterwards, she'll be an even greater asset to us!

I would love to be able to apply myself, but, being located in São Paulo, it's even harder for me to imagine coming up with the airfare than Jean in Chicago. Of course, my parents do live just down the road from Cisco, so I'd certainly have a place to stay:) Oh well, maybe next year...

Haney Armstrong said:

I forgot to point out what a great opportunity this is to meet and work with many important, creative people. Thomas and I will also be there.

Haney, does this mean that you and Thomas are "important, creative people?" Don't get mad, or anything. I mean, I always thought youse guys was "important [and] creative" and ALL, but I didn't know whether YOU thought the same as ME.

There are certain planets where thinking the same as ME is outlawed and treated as a dangerous social disease. Is keeping chickens creative, or important?

Last witticism stolen and abridged from Men in Black.

I think Haney is saying with the grammar that he chose (...will ALSO be there) that he and Thomas are not among those important, creative few. We know that's not true! : )

Jean would be great there. So would Evonne. So would Mark. So would a bunch of you all...

Let's set up a drop cash and each give a little - then whoever is selected will have some cost absorbed.

I'm already planning to be there :)

or ... if there are funds left in the scholarship fund, I think this would be an appropriate thing to support.

where should I raise that question?

in any case, we should start taking pledges ;)

I checked airfare. If I drive to Chicago (and that costs me about $40 roundtrip) then I can catch a flight for about $270. I have many places to stay in the Bay area (no cost).

Toss me into the pile. I certainly can't afford it right now, but I am willing to move forward with trust in the universe that we can solve that too.

I would love to use this to help people like David Harris. And I am honored and humbled by the comments here. Thank you!

I am considering attending and have been clearing my calendar; not sure but this sounds like the ideal opportunity to participate. I'd like to throw my name in; we already have travel covered and a trip planned to northern California for that week. In full disclosure, I'm also in touch with Britt Bravo @ NetSquared about volunteering services in exchange for participation.

Contributions: Working with a handful of media-oriented social ventures represented in the innovation cycle at NetSquared we'd like to open up the process by bringing in video, interactive media and public dialogue through dynamic storytelling. We are collecting short answers in the AMO stream this summer along with various vlogs, blogs and mob2.0 technologies like Twitter and a campaign of related social networking groups.

Jean would be the ideal organizer for storytelling and media sharing; she's worked with many conferences in the past to bring these tools to life. I'd also love to see David Evan Harris there if there were any way to make it work; we're looking at good ways to support Global Lives from Second Life to web communities, making use of the AMO space to promote great media projects like GL that keep these stories alive.

I wholeheartedly nominate our dear Nurture-Girl!

Also delighted to hear that some of our best and brightest are also planning to attend.

I know Ted is traveling so we haven't heard from him...if he isn't signed up already...I nominate Ted also.

I requested an invitation and am crossing my fingers waiting for netsquared to respond. I attended and volunteered last year and hope to see you all there!! I was thrilled last year how netsquared gathering was so much more about collaborative social change than technology and these 21 projects are evidence. I am dreaming of attending Netsquared and then heading to BALLE conference @ UC Berkeley.

edit - fixed link

Oh yes, I second your nomination, too, Anne Marie!! :-)

I would like to see Anne Marie and Jean attend this gathering.

Jean,

do you have the chance to put a paypal link? I believe i'm not the only one who think it is important for those project to receive your support and creativeness. It would be great to help you reaching the 270usd that you need to travel... trust in this universe (your friends at omidyar) and you will be there... :)

Jean ~ Nurture Girl ~ Russell said:

I checked airfare. If I drive to Chicago (and that costs me about $40 roundtrip) then I can catch a flight for about $270. I have many places to stay in the Bay area (no cost).

Toss me into the pile. I certainly can't afford it right now, but I am willing to move forward with trust in the universe that we can solve that too.

I would love to use this to help people like David Harris. And I am honored and humbled by the comments here. Thank you!

We have an open nomination process until the deadline established above, right? So I think we either raise some $ without knowing who we will decide to support, or we wait until we know who is going and needs support and how much, then have them set up the drop cash.

I pledge $10 in support of travel/incidentals to each of the two persons selected by this process.

Wow!

Thank you Peter for nominating me.

I'd love to attend. This is right up Emerging Futures Network, Network Weavers, OGuild's alley. It hangs on our motto -- what can we do together that we can not do alone. It would strenghen relationships (many already started).

It would be an honor to go on the O.NET team and come back ready to grow the work with other O.netters and beyond.

I would also like to attend with Jean, as I would love to spend more time with her, discussing next steps for our work together with EFN. Michael and Ted get to bend her ear alot more (as they all live in Chicago).

Netquared is such an exciting event and fits with our next steps of evolution.

Thank you Omidyar Network for whomever is selected to attend.

San Jose is only a 7 hour drive for me.

Peter Rees said:

Taking a cue from Rory's post below ... Mark Grimes would bring significant richness to the conference.

I would third Peter and Rory.

I would only vote for someone who aimed to openly and practically connect the deepest projects that lurk somewhere within the 2 communities at onet and netsquared

whilst there may be other ways to do this, one that would take a dlegate very little time and no cost would be as follows

1 go to http://www.facebook.com

2 register

3 form group ambassadors connecting most vital projects of netsquared and onet

4 before going to netsquared , tell onet members where this group is bokmarked and print out post-card size instructions to be given to anyone at netsquared whom you talk to who has a deep- project inviting them to join the ambassadors collaboration group between onet and netsquared

gee if we made that work; onet could replicate the game at any annual meeting with project networks worth linking into

what could possibly go wrong with doing this?

Facebook is a fairly closed system according to what I heard this weekend at barcamp Portland from the online community discussion. I am not sure why this can't happen right here Chris. And I think it is a great idea to take some handout on Onet projects. I would be happy to work on creating that document with whoever is attending from onet membership including those already planning to go.

Michael Maranda said:

...I pledge $10 in support of travel/incidentals to each of the two persons selected by this process.

I also pledge $10 to each of the two o/net members selected for netsquared.

Came here to nominate Evonne. Jean and Annemarie would also be great. Hopefully some of the sidebar arrangements directly with netsquared could work out meaning you'd all get to go :)

Jean - do you have any idea what your friend meant by closed as an adjective for http://www.facebook.com - my experience is the exact opposite but it certainly needs people to come and be very clear what are the driving projects they want support around

I am also quite amazed to see people from some of the biggest change organisations (eg ashoka, ted.com) etc turn up in facebook networks in ways that don't seem to happen in this space

It would be interesting to establish some consistent vocabulary around a handful of dimensions that could be used to profile onet, netsquared, facbook, and indeed all networks you all nominate to understand at elast what sorts of crietria we are looking for even if our experiences of different communities varies. I still don't really have a clear feel of why netsquared is thought to be such a bid deal. What's its biggest consequence to date?