It was a productive, well attended ad-hoc meeting with the basic goal to develop more open sourced ways of creating and producing excellent ideas.

What follows is a general brain dump of my ideas after this meeting.

As an interactive medium, connected communication is so new, so multi-faceted, that clean, effective and meaningful production based solutions elude even the most intelligent users.

On a small scale in tiny communities of 100, 200 or a little more, there is an open sharing model, but the change is slow, and the results really are a mixed bag. What I mean is, digital communications promises rapid change, creative solutions and a new movement of enlightenment; and for the most part, on a quantitative level, this is true, but overall the quality behind the solutions, the real meat and potatoes of the meaning, is still terribly lacking.

There are of course examples of powerful open source projects: Word Press, PHP, Apache, Processing, Open Frameworks… the list goes on, but few ways of creating communities with real bite.

Admittedly I have some fractured thoughts on the topic, but what I am driving at is that comminites are in need of new solutions to help cope with rapid changes. We are very much like children in a bazaar given free reign to do anything we want.

The possibilities seem endless, so as a result, rapid ingestion of everything and anything ensues. This obfuscates core issues, and ends up creating nasty needy spirals of stacked solutions generated to make original solutions/ideas work.

The meeting at indusblue, if nothing else, is attempting to illustrate something. Creative solutions happen best in ungoverned societies. Freedom of thought, freedom to speak, and ultimately freedom to act are neccessary ingredients for change. However, ultimately the constituents of the society need to have an internal motivation to contribute. If the basic ideas of this group grow to maturity, then I am hoping to see the synthesis of an ingredient very much lacking in the current iteration of live communications.