This evening I am off to Nokia Open Lab 2008 (Nokia Open Lab public wiki, my Open Lab 2008 blog post) until Saturday. It's an all expense paid conference on the future of mobile with bloggers, artists and social media folks in Helsinki, Finland.

I look forward to contributing to the discussion and hope to thrown in some of my many thoughts about future devices like my dream gadget N999, anytime, anywhere, anyplace and to catch up with old friends like Eddie Codel and Micki Krimmel and meet in "real-space" virtual friends like Stefan, Carol and a whole host of others! And of course Drupal, Drupal, Drupal since the SIFT tool (SMS, photo and video, microblog and other media "social media aggregator") will be a topic that I will bring up, as well as a small Drupal Meetup in Helsinki on the evening of September the 17th or the morning of the 18th

And of course go cycling around Helsinki and buy gadgets at the Nokia Flagship Store in Helsinki!

Great Net Tuesday about Drupal and Non Profits tonight (check out the comprehensive as usual Mis 604 Live Blog from the event).

I'll lead with the last presentation, the genocide (with a spotlight on Darfur) prevention site, StandNow.org from Agentic that Phillip Djwa presented

Geekfests!

Summer's winding down which means less camping camping, and more indoor camping, on the agenda.

Next up to add to your geek fest calendar are two free-form, inter-disciplinary meetups in Vancouver:

MobileCampVancouver2 at WorkSpace on Saturday, Sept.6th.

BarCampVancouver2008 at locations Granville Island on Saturday/Sunday, Sept. 27th-28th.

Both are participatory events with presentations selected by vox populi at the beginning of the session. Check out the the Rules of Bar Camp to learn what to expect.

MobileCamp Vancouver 2

Alas, MCV2 runs concurrently with Drupal Camp Victoria but there are enough enthusiasts around to make both events a success. MCV2 is sponsored by Mobile Muse - an applied research and developmet project funded by the Canadian government to conduct projects in the emerging mobile space.

Blurb:

MobileCampVancouver is bringing together iPhone junkies, Crackberry addicts, couch surfers, coffee shop hackers, vagabonds and mobile nomads to share the current state and their visions for the future direction of mobility.

It was great to sit down with DaveO on the podcast and talk over a wide arc of experiences I've had in the past 4+ years. In case it wasn't clear from the audio (I do have some extended liner notes on my personal site), I'm finishing up my time at Raincity Studios.

After the sale of Bryght back in November / December and 6 months of transition work, I've moved on to work on my new startup, Bootup Labs, full time.

That's not to say that I'm leaving Raincity Studios behind completely. I'm still an advisor to the company, focusing especially on products and services related to hosting and the Bryght Light service. We've got some new services that I'm really excited about seeing launch, from server hosting in Canada to Aegir mass hosting for all VPS customers to some interesting computing integration.