Enjoyed RecentChangesCamp 2007 even though I actually spent shockingly little time at the event both physically and mentally. Beyond the joy of catching up with everybody, I was struck by:
WagN
Every time I look at WagN it’s more awesome. Lewis and Ethan are doing some awesome stuff, and from what I saw of the next release (which is maybe a month out) it’ll soon get to the point where the user interface and interaction design monsters can come out of their caves and process it into something truly amazing.
One of the WagNeers plans to be in Ann Arbor in April, I’ll try to bring him to a2b3 or set up a fun event.
Wiki / “community” analytics
I was supposed to run a session on wiki analytics, which ended up being a few diffuse conversations. I had a dog and pony show from ArborWiki’s Google Analytics — primarily the goal and conversion issue: namely, what are the right conversions to track for a peer production or wiki flavored project. (There’s a really striking story to extrude out of the ArborWiki analytics and the conversion it’s tracking now.)
Regardless, I have a few people and projects to follow up with — and some thinking and action to begin — on this topic.
The Change Handbook
Dead tree book: The Change Handbook second ed., by Tom Devane, Steven Cady, & Peggy Holman — a giant, three pound tome of process arts methodology, of which the vast bulk is bunch of practitioners describing their methods. It’s very fun to page through. Be warned, though, that the book is extremely poorly edited, with dorky typos and usage errors throughout.
etc.
I kept a wordie list of things I overheard, which is a good executive summary of the event.
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