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Jason Bajada - The Sound Your Life Makes

Never have I seen Montreal so beautifully together. People, young and old, march and protest the recent student tuition hike & bill 78 peacefully with their pots & pans every night at 8pm. Smiles are contagious and the city vibrates to the clanking as multiple neighbourhoods gather in the streets, uniting in one giant celebration.

This is the sound Montreal makes!

Jamais je n’ai vu Montréal aussi belle. Tous les soirs à 20h, les jeunes et moins jeunes marchent et manifestent pacifiquement leur désaccord face à la hausse des frais de scolarité et la loi 78 avec leurs casseroles en main. Les sourires sont contagieux et la ville vibre au rythme du tintamarre, alors que de nombreux quartiers se réunissent dans la rue, s’unissant en une immense célébration. Voilà le son que fait Montréal!

The Power of Community

Look up, it’s a cheesy title!

However, we all know it to be true. Since I’m still trying to figure out exactly what ThinkUp should be I’ve decided to to do what I do best, build the ThinkUp community by leveraging the communities I already lead or contribute to - we’ll start with PressWork!

PressWork is side project I co-founded with @bavotasan. I’ll make this brief, this is not a pitch for PressWork even though it’s awesome and you should try it, PressWork is an open source WordPress framework and we have built a very vocal and passionate community around it, it’s the perfect fit, I hope, for ThinkUp.

What makes an open source community successful online and offline, at least in my opinion, is the open debate and conversation that transpires amongst its members or prospective members that help drive the project further along.

Since I’m also one the community leaders, organizers, or whatever you would like to call me for WordPress Montreal, why not get them involved too :)

I see ThinkUp being something where anybody from any community can propose a topic for conversation.

So, let’s see where this takes us …

What is ThinkUP?

First, let me introduce myself -

My name is Brendan Sera-Shriar a.k.a. digibomb.

I’m a WordPress designer, developer, and blogger, social addict, techy, father, community manager and builder, toy geek, collector of many things, and published author from Montreal, Canada.

More about me

http://www.dropthedigibomb.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/digibomb

OK, back to the point of this post, what is ThinkUp? There are many meetups, I know ‘cause I attend a good majority of them and even organize a few :) For a while now I’ve thought about putting together a social gathering of sorts where professionals, students, enthusiast, and just those interested in learning and thinking about community both online and offline can come together and share their knowledge, experiences, and ideas.

The idea is simple - come drink, chat, learn, and think in a casual setting. The structure would be an open forum, kind of like a demo camp or ignite, but no slides - I envision something more like a round table where we discuss and debate openly - we ThinkUp!

If this is something you’re interested in and you live in the Montreal area let me know. I’m in the process of organizing the first ThinkUp in Montreal so all feedback, suggestions, and ideas are welcome.

I’ll use this blog as a way to post information about upcoming ThinkUp’s and to recap each one. I also see this as a shared space where we can ThinkUp (yes I know , stop branding :) ) anything we want.

So, let’s do this!

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