All of us working on MediaCommons are extremely gratified by the reception that our introduction of the project has had, ranging from the supportive emails we’ve received, the posts on numerous other blogs, the articles in other publications, and, most importantly, in the lively conversation and substantive feedback we’ve gotten here. We’ve already started following up on these ideas and we’ll be posting more in the days to come, raising more particular issues for our collective consideration. We will also be taking the insightful suggestions and constructive criticisms we’ve received into our next face-to-face meeting in a few weeks’ time, after which we’ll respond more fully to your concerns and seek your feedback and input once again. For the moment, however, thanks to all of you — and please stay actively involved in these conversations.
We would also like to take the opportunity to announce that we’ll be representing at the upcoming Flow Conference, October 26-28, 2006, at the University of Texas at Austin. We will be participating on an open-forum roundtable discussing the future of digital publishing, which should prove fruitful for both generating ideas and continuing to build the strong community network for this project. If you can attend, we’ll hope to see you there.
— Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Avi Santo, Bob Stein, Ben Vershbow