On Sunday evening, Kaliya Hamlin, who is an honorary Boston Technobabe,* convened a meeting of folks who are interested in starting a local Planetwork group in the Boston area.

Here's the basic idea: 

"Planetwork connects a network of people and projects using information technology and the Internet to create a truly democratic, socially just and ecologically sane future."

This sounds great to me, and when the time came for Kaliya to ask for volunteers to do the organizing and outreach for a Boston Planetwork group, I felt terribly guilty.  I'd love to help with this, but all of the time I can spare for pro bono projects has already been allocated, and I can't  take on another thing until the summer of 2007.

Kaliya was of course very gracious about this, and assured me that I didn't have to be the volunteer.  But I still feel bad, because the format for monthly meetings seems very intriguing:

"...generally a series of up to seven very brief project presentations selected from submissions made over previous months. Each presenter gets 1 minute to describe their personal motivation, 5 minutes to give an overview of their work, and 2 minutes for questions."

If someone else can undertake to do the organizing and outreach, I will be thrilled to attend whenever I can, but I can't commit to the tasks that must be done to make it all happen.  I wonder if this is a good  PledgeBank opportunity?  E.g., I promise to kibbitz if someone else promises to do all the real work.


* Kaliya is based in California, but became an honorary Boston Technobabe when she shared a hotel room with three of us at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference in Chicago.