Ball rolling...

So the ball is rolling... sometimes actions speak louder than words (until you blog it?!):

An embryonic project i've been involved in recently is the Manchester Beacon open source web development workshop facilatated by proboscis and produced by Just-B. The idea is to commission an online web tool to visualise the connections between people, place and knowledge where people are working together to make a difference in their local communities.

There are so many 'projects' going on but what's the thinking behind the project, the learning, the stories that emerge as the project unfolds and people engage and disengage? Who started the ball rolling? What happens when some of those balls collide? How can we make a difference by throwing our weight behind a project rather than starting a new one? These are the things i am thinking about and i think that Manchester might hold some answers...

In conjunction with the web tool, we're going to be asking people to document and share their stories... what knowledge might a city hold?

"the city we work in is not the same city we play in, and not the same city that others
come to visit; the city where we are born is, for people who migrate there, another space
entirely... there is not a single Manchester, nor Athens or Prague, but thousands upon
thousands of individual cities moving within their boundaries. And they don’t ever sit
still."
Marian Crossan, Decapolis, Tales from ten cities