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SummaryWe presented at Pecha Kucha!

Description *Paige and I presented on the ImageWiki idea at Pecha Kucha last night, http://www.slideshare.net/anselm/pechakucha-presentation-750335 It was terrific fun, and inspiring. My own practice is one of "praxis". I like to spend half my time implementing and half my time talking. However for ImageWiki I haven't been able to find any forums to speak about it in - and the feeling was that there was no interest in the topic in general. This is why we put it down for about 90 days or so. Over the last eight months we've successfully failed to find an audience for it in the Knight Grants, in Ignite, in the Conflux event, and in several other events. Remarkably, for what is such an amazing idea - we've just been completely unable to get anybody else interested in it. It was baffling to me. But, with the Pecha Kucha talk, we did feel inspired again to push it forward another notch. And put in quite a bit of effort to rev the code base, and get a good presentation together. We iterated several times on the presentation, video taping it and getting feedback from peers, and so hopefully the actual real presentation we did at Pecha Kucha turned out well. I was pretty happy regardless - just to have a chance to speak about the idea and its implications. Now we have the server working well again; it was having some problems with the migration to merb and the subsequent update of merb to 1.0 and the upgrade of the hardware to use 'phusion passenger' and a few other things. The iphone client is still out of date but we will try and get a version running for android. Also thematically it feels like the most interesting local use is to capture local art around Portland. Capturing amazon books is probably also another good idea. See our new blog at http://blog.makerlab.org as well!