Union Square Sessions Transcript Available

It took a couple days, but we've uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and open data architectures.

The entire transcript (all 227 pages) is available as a Word file here.  We have also created a reformatted version which is only 52 pages long.  And we've created a PDF file of the reformatted version as well.

We also have created a page on our public wiki where people should feel free to pull quotes from the transcript to create a summary page.  We have already seeded that page with a few quotes we particluarly like.

Please feel free to blog any and all of this and link back to us so we can track the conversation.

Comments

[David Gibbons]

Thanks for sharing Fred - this is a great read.

It wil be interesting to see where this group's thoughts are a year from now. It's a challenging space to get your head around, with probably more to be "unlearned" than "learned".

Thanks again.

[Vijay]

It's a pretty interesting read that is going to keep me occupied for a little while (given the 200+ pages). I just wanted to mention a small correction. In the transript it mentions of Yochai Benkler's "Common Space Peer Production", which upon clarification I found out to be "Commons-based Peer Production". I thought I'd give a heads up to get it corrected. Thanks.

I guess this testifies for an act of "Peer Production" :)

Thanks for the transcript. It's a great discussion you guys have had.

[Mike Bergman]

I’ve just finished this fascinating 228 pp transcript. While I was somewhat disappointed that neither interoperability nor extensibility directly entered into any of the discussions, I suspect this may be due to viewing the topic of open data architectures through the lens of peer production or social networks.

For me, the quote closest to my interests was from Dick Costolo, who stated "the bottom line implication is that an open data architecture will be one that is purely API based and not destination based."

This session is an interesting start. I’d like to humbly suggest open and extensible data architectures (including, importantly, database engines in addition to extensible exchange formats such as XML) for a future discussion topic.