Tantek's Thoughts — 2007 December

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1. Wrapping up 2007: microformats public domain contributions and LifeCamp
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  12/31 11:51 PM
  
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  It's been quite the eventful year, so perhaps it is only fitting that a couple more big things got squeezed into the last few days.
  
  Requiring public domain contributions
  
  As of December 29th, all new contributions to the microformats wiki are required to be released into the public domain. This has been a project that I've been working on for microformats for quite some time, was much harder and took much longer than expected, and was really important to me personally.
  
  See the blog post on microformats.org for more details, reasons why, and historical events leading up to this first of a kind decision to make a standards effort as open as possible.
  
  What are you doing with your life?
  
  Aside from the party going on (that I'm briefly hiding from to write this up), this year concluded for me with LifeCamp, a BarCamp/Foocamp-like event 12/30-31 that focused on one question: What are you doing with your life?
  
  My friend Julie and I thought this up when discussing end of year rituals, and threw it together quickly and roughly in a matter of days (like the first BarCamp). We invited a bunch of people (also coarsely brainstormed, certainly not comprehensive), a few of whom were actually available to attend, and shared an incredible two days of reflection (what did you do) and projection (what are you going to do).
  
  We quickly decided at the start to make the event both off-the-record by default (similar to Foocamp and a few other such conferences) and even fairly "in-confidence" to create a more comfortable and safe environment for sharing personal, sensitive, and vulnerable aspects of ourselves. However we also decided to very much document the abstractions about the event, in the hopes of improving the replicability of the event, both for ourselves, and for anyone wishing to organize a LifeCamp in their own town, with a few of their trusted friends and colleagues. Check out the LifeCamp wiki.
  
  I've got more thoughts on the microformats example of making open standards as open as possible, and the LifeCamp variant of Barcamp that I'll post in the new year. For now, there is champagne and sparkling cider to hand out.
  
  Happy New Year and see you in 2008!
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