reboot May 30, 2007

It's time to reboot our minds once again; reboot9 will take place in Copenhagen Thursday, May 31 and Friday, June 1 2007.
Two days away from implementing, away from the status quo. Two days together with old and new friends in an informal and open festival spirit...

THE CHALLENGE
The theme for reboot9 is "human?". A big word, but a word that saturates what's happening and all ready on a deeper level has been transcending reboot the last couple of years.

We're connecting to each others as human beings once again. We're building tools to empower humans - not institutions. We're creating new iconic collaborative human manifestations. We're finding ourselves as humans and our human voices. We're humanizing our organizations and our socities. We're reestablishing links to nature we'd long forgotten. We're looking at the world together as humans - not as consumers or workers.

So when all is in going away from mechanical industrial models to human natural models where this is leading us?. What is our shared understanding of "human?". How do we organize ourselves in human institutions and organizations?. How are our tools shaping us as humans, how are we shaping our tools. Is it leading us to chaos without organization and government or nirvana?. What do we as humans want to happen, what can we imagine?

reboot9 is about looking both backwards and forwards. Backwards because history has a tendency to repeat itself but also for staying power of the discussions that we had at reboot8, reboot7 and earlier even. Forwards in order to predict by implementing and to obsolete the pretensions we forget to dismiss.

Explore human and comment on the challenge at www.reboot.dk/set-69-en.html

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
Like last year there isn't a final speakers list or a black box creation model. reboot is a platform for bringing the European (and beyond) community together, a platform for conversations and relationships, a platform for sharing visions and meeting the people you never knew you'd meet.

So the platform is all yours, and this is an invitation to participate and help co-create reboot..:
- an invitation to submit topics you would like on the agenda for reboot,
- an invitation to submit pointers to interesting people you know in your country or industry that has something to contribute, and help us recruit them to come as speakers or participants,
- an invitation for your proposal to host or present if you've been doing some interesting thinking the last year or have created something that's worth sharing,
- an invitation for you to help make sure that we have the people that have open minds and are ready to make a difference at reboot.

To connect Europe, to widen the community, to add perspective. This year there's an all new collaborative site to do it on, please sign up and participate in the creation process at reboot.dk

ACTION
So what's next if you want to reboot...
- signup now for reboot9 to secure your ticket, only 195 euro if you sign up before April 20th, register.reboot.dk (share travel tips on hotels/flights at www.reboot.dk/set-217-en.html),
- spread the word via blogging, email, im, etc. about reboot9 and extend the invitation to participate to the people you "just" know should be at reboot9
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal

Official Website: http://reboot.dk