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Last week Ewelina sent an open invitation to our Digital Media mailing list:

Hey ***
I was wondering if any of you would like to go to Transmediale Festival(?)

Lot’s of people expressed an interest, so we held a meeting after class on the Wednesday and about 20 people came.  All of the people wanted to go to Transmediale 2010 and liked the idea of working together.  At the same time, a nagging question remained:

Q.  How do we co-ordinate loads of positive energy, valuable ideas and different approaches without wasting loads of valuable time and energy in the process?

Rather than begin planning for some kind of ’school-trip’ we set about establishing some guiding principles:

What do we agree on? AND What are the barriers?

We identified the following:
DATES: some people will want to flexible so, good idea to suggest dates and let people book
TRAVEL: best if people book flights, accom individually
ACCOMODATION: desirable to stay together – group hostel, student halls, apartments etc.
PARTICIPATION: Identify two-day activity period during Transmediale that CultureLabbers can plan the rest of their trip around.
MONEY: This was really the only barrier for people attending.

We’re now trying to co-ordinate our efforts through the Digital Media course wiki: http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Transmediale_Festival_2010