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Boppers__ Ed asked me to send out a last minute Bopgram to the a2b3 list,
reminding the faithful that he *will* be hosting a Bi Bim Bop lunch TODAY
(Thu 1/5) at Eastern Accents (4th Ave, just N of Liberty in Ann Arbor). So
if
you can come on short notice, that would be great. __David



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I'll be there too. Happy holidays to those who can't make it ...

Joe

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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Edward Vielmetti wrote:

This will be low key, I suspect, since
there are some number of people gone
on holiday.

we'll meet Thursday at Eastern Accents
for lunch, you're welcome to join in.

I plan to be there.

Larry

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, polygon@...
Washtenaw County Clerk & Register of Deeds,
The Political Graveyard,
Polygon, the Dancing Bear,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor, MI 48106

This will be low key, I suspect, since
there are some number of people gone
on holiday.

we'll meet Thursday at Eastern Accents
for lunch, you're welcome to join in.

thanks

Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Thanks to everyone who braved the snow
(we had 11 all told). There was too much
talked about to summarize. I'll try to just
type in a few of the notes I made.

Mike Finney (michaelfinney@...)
is CEO of SPARK and is charged with the
task of capturing some of the innovation in
the Ann Arbor area and turning it into
good and profitable companies. He asked
the question, "is this a good time to be a
software developer?"

Alan Guiterrez (thinknola@...) has
software patents on his mind and asked
"how do independents and inventors compete
with big companies with big and aggressive
patent portfolios?"

Lou Rosenfeld (lou@...) asks
"What does it mean to be a community organization
in 2005?" and in particular how can you do
things differently now than they might have been
done ten years ago.

Diane Durance (ddurance@...)
asks "if you're not on the IT Zone events mailing
list, let me know and I'll add you"

Matt Hampel (matt.hampel@...) is looking
at college next year - U of Michigan Engineering,
Cornell, RPI, and Michigan Tech. It looks likely that
the Neutral Zone will be moving downtown to the
place where Kolossus is now.

Jose Nazario (jose@...) is working at
Arbor Networks, notes that it just got ranked as
#9 on the Inc Magazine 500 list, and notes that
they are hiring for his team.

Joe Cothrel (cothrel@...) is working
as a consultant on projects involving building
communities online which range from economic
development in NE Ohio to mapping industry
networks in oil and gas.

Ron Suarez ()
is building a podcasting and media platform for
music labels.

David C. Bloom (dcb@...)
was full of words and ideas like he usually is,
and the one which i captured was "wikinomics" -
how to be an aggregator of information.

Kathy Brade (brade@...) showed
Alan her new browser tool Pearl Comments,
which puts comments on web pages right into
the browser.

Some more open questions from the table -

How does Ann Arbor capitalize on its diaspora?

Thanks all. One followup from this meeting is
something I'll pursue with Lou about helping
set some direction and gather some ideas for
community organizing. (My inclination would
be to do another open space event some
afternoon and see who shows up and what
comes of it - all we really need for that is a
time and a venue and a mailing list to invite
people to it.)

thanks

your list-keeper


Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Hey all -

The lunch is definitely on. See you noonish! I'll be coming
in on an AATA bus and I don't know if they are keeping to
their schedules today exactly but in a pinch I can walk.

thanks

Ed

On 12/15/05, Diane Durance <ddurance@...> wrote:

Ed,
Be sure to let us know if the lunch is on. I plan to walk over if you'll be
there.
Diane


-----Original Message-----
From: a2b3@... [mailto:a2b3@...] On Behalf Of
Edward
Vielmetti
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:07 PM
To: a2b3@...
Subject: [a2b3] Re: 12/15 lunch plans: Michael Finney, Spark

Please note that there is a winter
storm watch for tomorrow, with some
considerable accumulations expected.



I'll send an update out tomorrow a.m.
with any details if plans change -
you never know with these storms
but as long as the restaurant is open,
I'm within walking (sledding? skiing?
distance of downtown).

thanks

Ed

On 12/12/05, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:
> Please join us Thursday, 12/15, at Eastern
> Accents for lunch. Our special guest is Michael
> Finney, the new CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.
> There's a brief introduction of Mike here:
>
>
>
> from Bob Guenzel, Washtanaw County
> Administrator.
>
> My plan for the day is to be in Kerrytown
> in the morning online and to head over
> to EA by about 11am; we'll try to start
> lunch at around 12 noon. If you want
> to stop in before but can't make lunch
> track me down by phone or look at
>
>
>
> to see where I am at the moment.
>
> thanks
>
> Ed
> --
> Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
> +1 734 276 5910
>
> edward.vielmetti@...
>
>


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+1 734 276 5910

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Ed,
Be sure to let us know if the lunch is on. I plan to walk over if you'll be
there.
Diane

grat restaurant in Garden City at there website listed under links

Please note that there is a winter
storm watch for tomorrow, with some
considerable accumulations expected.



I'll send an update out tomorrow a.m.
with any details if plans change -
you never know with these storms
but as long as the restaurant is open,
I'm within walking (sledding? skiing?
distance of downtown).

thanks

Ed

On 12/12/05, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:

Please join us Thursday, 12/15, at Eastern
Accents for lunch. Our special guest is Michael
Finney, the new CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.
There's a brief introduction of Mike here:



from Bob Guenzel, Washtanaw County
Administrator.

My plan for the day is to be in Kerrytown
in the morning online and to head over
to EA by about 11am; we'll try to start
lunch at around 12 noon. If you want
to stop in before but can't make lunch
track me down by phone or look at



to see where I am at the moment.

thanks

Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

--
Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Edward Vielmetti wrote:

Please join us Thursday, 12/15, at Eastern
Accents for lunch. Our special guest is Michael
Finney, the new CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.
There's a brief introduction of Mike here:

Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend.

Starting at 11:30 am on Thursday, December 15, the Washtenaw County Election Commission (of which I am one-third) will be meeting, possibly for hours, to consider 26 sets of proposed reasons to remove certain public officials from office via petition drive and recall election.

The officials whose conduct is questioned are two members of the Milan city council, and the three top officials of Pittsfield Township.

Our job is to determine whether the proposed reasons are "clear" enough to satisfy the statute. We have already received several legal briefs on this, and expect to receive more.

This proceeding will not be televised, but it is a public meeting and will be held in the basement meeting room at 200 N. Main, in downtown Ann Arbor.

Larry

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, polygon@...
Washtenaw County Clerk & Register of Deeds,
The Political Graveyard,
Polygon, the Dancing Bear,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Please join us Thursday, 12/15, at Eastern
Accents for lunch. Our special guest is Michael
Finney, the new CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK.
There's a brief introduction of Mike here:



from Bob Guenzel, Washtanaw County
Administrator.

My plan for the day is to be in Kerrytown
in the morning online and to head over
to EA by about 11am; we'll try to start
lunch at around 12 noon. If you want
to stop in before but can't make lunch
track me down by phone or look at



to see where I am at the moment.

thanks

Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Ed,
Happy Birthday (a little late). Sorry I missed the lunch -- it sounds like
it was a really good time.

Thanks for keeping me in the loop.

See you soon,
Diane

Here's a non-summary of the 12/8 a2b3 meeting at Eastern Accents.

First, you should take a look at the group photo for the event, taken
by David C. Bloom, who stitched the snapshots together and did the
necessary photoshopping to make sure he was also in the picture. It's
up on Flickr at

with some amount of annotation started. I'll add as many more bits of
markup as I can there, so that everyone's face has a URL attached if
they want one.

Going through the faces one at a time to say a
few things -

Wayne Baker is working on visualization
tools for mapping social networks over
time - some of them generate movies.
(I'd welcome more details!)

Larry Kestenbaum handed out copies of
his office's country directory listing all elected and
appointed officials to city, county, and township
offices.

Patrick Haggood came in from Detroit and
is working on teacher education and technology
infusions into teaching.

Kathy Brade at Pearl Crescent helped organize
the day. A "pearl crescent" is a type of butterfly.

Lou Rosenfeld is started up a book publishing
company.

Alan Guiterrez is working on and about to
release a web site about and for the people
of New Orleans.

John Hritz was at a David Allen "Getting Things
Done" seminar last week. He will be celebrating
Discardia in a couple of weeks.

David C. Bloom stitched the picture together and
made sure he was in it.

Mark Smith is also at Pearl Crescent, coincidentally,
he is married to Kathy Brade.

Not pictured: Carol Sun of Eastern Accents who
provided the cake at the end. Thanks Carol!

Ed


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+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Kathy Brade asked about Dan Cooney's
painting. You can see it through this
link in my weblog here:



or direct on Flickr here:



thanks Dan!

Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

a non-review of what happened at lunch

Who was here:
* Mihira
* Joe Cothrel
* Dan Cooney
* Larry Kestenbaum
* Jose Nazario
* Edward Vielmetti

Some notes.

Ed showed off Graphviz and a map of what he had worked on yesterday.

Dan has a painting, The Simplicity of the Semantic Web, which has had
over 1000 hits on Flickr. Ed would like a postcard of the painting -
if anyone knows how to do postcard production in quantity let me know.

Joe found pictures of his parents and grandparents houses on a
municipal website in Toledo, and we noted that the city assessor's
office in Ann Arbor also has housing photos online.

Larry handed out free copies of a Washtenaw County directory his
office produces. He expressed an interest in getting all kinds of map
data visible, things you might not normally think about like postal
and garbage routes.

Jose kicked off a discussion of the AATA and how it would be good to
get more real time data about the buses onto the net for the benefit
of commuters. (I've subsequently contacted Murph who forwarded the
question to Chris White at the AATA.)

I was sitting at the opposite end of the table from Mihira and I got
there late so we didn't talk much.

thanks all, hope to see you next week for ED41! We'll be at Seoul Garden.

thanks

Ed

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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Dear a2b3 -

The next lunch is tomorrow at Eastern Accents.
Joe Cothrel is confirmed, and if anyone else
can make it that would be great.

Upcoming dates:
12/8 - birthday lunch at Seoul Garden
12/15 - Eastern Accents w/s/g Mike Finney, SPARK

Hope to see you soon.

Ed
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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

here's a non-summary of the lunch with Jeff and Anjali.

Jeff and Anjali are visiting from Seattle for a couple
of days; they flew into Grand Rapids and will be heading
back tomorrow.

Jeff has been practicing his oud and entertained us not
with music but with an account of the various rhythms
and tunings he has needed to learn to play it.

This was Anjali's first time having bi bim bop and she
made a good go of it.

Sam is back from Shanghai (three weeks) and he reports
that it's way more capitalist there than anywhere here.

Kat has recently enjoyed some Buster Keaton movies - I
didn't catch the title but it was the one where he did
all of his own stunts on a moving train.

Lou was kind enough to lend me money for lunch, so I
owe him one in return.

Thanks all for coming out to see Jeff and Anjali!

Ed