Monthly Archive

Yesterday evening the BarCampLondon Planning Association (the organisation putting on BarCampLondon) became One Click Orgs’ first alpha customer. The association held its founding meeting at the Trampery and adopted a Themis constitution running on the prototype server. This is an important step forward for OCO, the first time an independent group has used the platform to help it manage a complex project. We’ll get a lot of valuable feedback from this that’ll help us refine the platform to meet users’ needs.

Meanwhile our presence at the BIL Conference was a great success. I was the second keynote in the main auditorium talking about the relationship between technology and organisational structure, the principles of emergent democracy and the One Click Organisations project. Then Emma had a main-auditorium session on the Sunday afternoon discussing the democratic open source development approach we’ve pioneered with OCO. Both sessions were well received and we met a lot of people who are interested in the project and/or have groups wanting to use it. The conference as a whole was overflowing ideas and projects. I’ll link to videos of our sessions as soon as they’re published.

We’re doing two sessions on one click orgs at this weekend’s BIL Conference in Long Beach, California. I’ll be presenting the concept and purpose of the project while Emma discusses the democratic open source methodology we’ve adopted for development.

BIL is the place to be for big new ideas and unconventional thinkers. i visited the first BIL last year and i’m excited to be there again this year. Come and see us if you’re there!

If you’d like to help guarantee us prime speaking slots please register on the BIL community site and mark our sessions as “favs”:

http://bil.nowgetsocial.com/talk/details/43
http://bil.nowgetsocial.com/talk/details/85

Meanwhile 2009 has got off to a great start for the project with new team members, new features and the 1.0 roadmap close to finalised.