22 days to go and the things we need.

I’ll make no bones about it - this is hard going.

Both myself and emma have put a lot of planning/organizing and chasing to make this happen (emma more than me) and it has become a little bit draining to chase deadends when it comes to sponsoring and asking for even the smallest things.   It’s amazing to watch how slow email is and how reactionary people get when they do not know why something is free.   that makes me feel sad about our world in some ways.   twitter really has been the super fast way of getting things done.

This morning i started approaching sponsors for food, we have transport sorted out from tamworth to conkers and we know they have a starbucks brewed coffee part so you can get your coffee and i’m informed that the bus has vodafone wifi.  i’m just hoping it works at conkers - it seems to be the black hole of internet communications.

I have also tried to launch a side project to raise sponsoring for the first year of having fibre installed at the conkers site over on kickstarter called ‘bringing 100mb fibre to the heart of the national forest’ problem is the site is US only at the moment and the project cannot be published live until they have the ability to take international payments.   but i’m still hopeful that we can install fibre, somewhere in a rural location just to prove that it can be done for a reasonable price compared to some of the figures that float around from BT just for digging the actual trenches.

I still have extreme concerns about having any level of quality of internet connection at the event because those businesses that i expected to ‘jump’ onboard to help seem to be retreating.  this is sad but not uncommon and i will solider on regardless.   i believe in the passion that emma brings to the project and ultimately the people that i engage with via my social networks to want to better their own life and those around them by creating change within their lives.

i think the hyper local sustainability message is vital and i will do everything in my skillset to enable this.  more than anything i’m looking at the 28th with fresh eyes.  it’s a tweetup in a wonderful rural relaxing location on a saturday, perfect to bring your little one and have +1 adult look after them while you relax with friends old and new and maybe learn a few things about the environment.

i know i’m going to learn a lot.  and that excites me.

cheers
phil (@philcampbell)