reboot10: Working for free

On June 30th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

so I am fresh out of reboot10 - which was an inspiring blast of vision.

one of the things that was a major inspiration to me was Peter Rukavina's session on "working for free". It moved me deeply to see how involved Peter was in his local community and how he liked to do stuff for free - for a greater cause of his own (fx. deciding to do the mailinglist of the local coffee shop to attract more customers, so it won't close down and he could have his favorite coffee everyday).

It makes sense to me because Peter are doing these initiatives to make himself happy. Really this is a wonderful thing actually springing from a selfish wish to maintain the status quo - or changing it for the better of his local community.

This presentation showed me how proactive you could be about your surroundings, and how much action and passion you can put into the things you would like to see prosper.

I will see what I can fix out here in Hvissinge - when things comes up I will let you know.

While I was in the session I had an idea of a "working for free" wiki, working to encourage these things.. I don't know how it would work in practice though.. it just stroked me as a great idea =)

[reboot, action, proactivity, peterrukavina, free, local, community, hvissinge, happy, statusquo] [17 comments]

community workshop: IRL thoughts of today

On June 25th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

Today is a big day for our network startup IRL - offline stuff for online people.

It's a network we made so Laura and I could act out our social entrepreneurship within a framework - and open up the danish web scene for more people.

But TODAY we are having our first workshop - starring the one and only Pedro Custodio who was in Copenhagen anyway for the reboot conference.

The workshop is about Community building and it is a more advanced form of workshop...

I have huge secret ambitions with IRL and I think it has a lot of potential to actually create a network of professional web enthusiasts.... It has been a good start even though we possibly hitted it off to ambitiously. So the workshop today is free =) and we're about 15 people who will be playing with communities togethere with Pedro..., there's still room for 2 -3 persons more if you're interested...

I think it's gonna rock=)

[network, IRL, startup, workshop, offline, online, social, entrepreneurship, pedrocustodio, community] [1 comment]