This afternoon, some RootsCamp people will again meet online to chat. I think the emphasis will be on hearing reports from the weekend camps, one of which took place in New York. I wrote about lessons learned elsewhere, but looking at the NY pictures sparked a new insight.
More public photos available on FlickR
Even though whiteboards [...]
Open conferencing scheduling
Community Informatics
One of the big bonuses of interacting with new people is that you add connections of personal relevance. At Indiana University, we have a fine social informatics department, but I had never heard of the formal subspecialty, community informatics, until receiving a reply to a RootsCamp-related email.
Community informatics (CI) is devoted to enabling communities with [...]