A space for discussion about the Useful Visitors project. What if travelers brought more than cash to the countries they visited? You could harness the skills, talent and knowledge of those visiting other countries - whether they're on business, visiting relatives or simply tourists. Via the web, universities could find visiting professors, hospitals could find visiting nurses, feeding centres could meet five star chefs and Joe the plumber can fi... [read more]

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'Bosun: Same here but pressing myself hard to focus. I have been talking about Useful Visitors all morning with colleagues and they all seems interested and looking forward to using the website. It was a great weekend...nice meeting and working with you guys... [read more]

Jon Worth: Sorry to be a bit slow with it, but the presentation can now be downloaded at: http://www.jonworth.eu/downloads/usefulvisitors.ppt (3mb) There's also a file with all the PSD files, CSS etc.: http://www.jonworth.eu/downloads/usefulvisitors.zip (15mb) ... [read more]

James: Thanks everyone! I really enjoyed the weekend, apart from the nastly flu virus I picked up there on the last day and which knocked me out for most of last week! Lee Bryant, who is from Headshift and was one of the judges of SI Camp 08, has posted som... [read more]

This is a space for discussion about the We-need.org project. There's been increasing emphasis on how you give users themselves greater control over the social care they receive in recent years - it's a huge social and political issue. Visualising Community Need is a project to help people map their own care requirements and use this information to get care providers to better understand the needs of those they are supposed to be serving - turnin... [read more]

Craig: Hi - since the meetup on 19 Nov, we've had a heap of mails in support of we-need.org - thanks guys .... although it does put the pressure on us to deliver over the weekend! Last week we were busy trawling our contacts for real data for us to use (don... [read more]

Craig: just to note that we-need.org was called Visualising Community Need - which is what it does!

Craig: What a great weekend. There's now: - a much more powerful story for we-need.org - a core team and a number of other people who are interested in the project. Thanks to James, Dominik, Vincenzo, Carrie, Mark, Michele, Patrick, Dave, Bruno, Andrew & th... [read more]

This is a space to discuss the Vegsy project. Etsy, but for vegetables. This idea uses an online market place to bring together people who grow food in their home, allotment, small holding or farm with people who want to buy locally produced, natural, wholesome foods - just like Etsy has done with handmade craft goods. So there's less air miles in our food and we know exactly what we're eating and where it's coming from. Vegsy

Joel: Anyone checked out this website: http://www.landshare.net JP

Charlie Tims: yup - i signed up about a month ago, but i haven't heard anything back from them. this is probably neither the time nor the place, but presumably could also be extended to skips, as in skipshare. see you later

This is a space for discussion about Going Postal. A tool to help people take control of junk mail: Going Postal aims both to stop junk reaching your letter box, as well as offering companies alternative ways to get their advertising out - which is good news for the trees that are used to produce the 550,000 tonnes of paper wasted on unsolicited mail in the UK each year. Going Postal

Iain Henderson: Great idea with a number of routes into it..and a few rat holes. Doing better than current set up with Mail Preference Service should be easy enough - that's built by and for the direct marketing industry to try to avoid legislation.

A space for discussion about the AccesCity project. The rush hour's bad enough for those who have only a bag and umbrella to carry around. But how do you negotiate a city's transport system when you're not able to keep up with the commuter scrum? AccessCity aims to develop a site to enable a user-generated view of London (in the first instance, but with the ability to be rolled out nationally and beyond) from an accessibility perspective: helping... [read more]

Tim Diggins: I love this idea. Have you ever seen the tiny book called "ExitWise" which is a humorous artistic project to document (at that point in time, but obviously this sort of thing changes quite quickly) which end of a tube is the best one to get onto at a... [read more]

A space for discussing the Carbon Co-op project. Household renewable energy technologies are often too expensive for ordinary people to invest in. Carbon Co-op is all about helping people club together as a co-operative to buy themselves and their neighbourhoods new technologies to generate their own power supply. Carbon Co-op

A space to discuss the Good Gym project. People all over Britain run, jog and lift weights. The Good Gym aims to make it easy for people to channel this energy toward social good. The idea is to get fitness fanatics to incorporate visits to isolated older people or the delivery of useful items to dependent individuals into their exercise routines. Good Gym