The buzz is back

I don't know if it's the early summer, people going to the national Transition conference, meeting with the guys in Lewes, the survey we sent with the last newsletter, the event I organized or a combination of all of the above, but it looks like the buzz is back with the Transition lot.

On Tuesday the Energy Group was all enthusiastic about organizing an Energy Fair, and I managed to get to coordinate it (they suggested Fatherly Figure for that, but I screamed in horror). It's going to be the next big thing, I can tell.

On Wednesday it was the forum meeting, and there were more people there than I've seen in a long time, including quite a few newcomers. Everybody had lots of plans and things to say. People were keen to get organized and the idea of having some kind of centre to our structure was resurrected. I intervened with something that had been on my mind for some time, that we need to look at systems and structure, not just talking about what people want, but rather, at what we need. I proposed a workshop looking at what kind of networks we are using, all that stuff around the Prisoner's Dilemma, game theory, small world networks, mixed with a generous dose of managerial stuff that I absorbed in a little course I did about providing IT services, add some ecology concepts in the mix, whatever I can gather from Obama's successful campaign and any other similarly successful social movement, a dash of black swans, a good helping of basic psychological stuff around decision-making, this and that, and it may be that people start thinking in the right directions.