I’m exhausted.
I had to schedule a night of sleep before the three-day marathon at City Hall, and it was difficult to fall asleep (especially with a double-overtime win by Indiana over Illinois). I had great help all day from both new faces and old, able to delegate some of the to-do list not yet completed while I worked on a presentation for the orientation kick-off. That document wasn’t done until just minutes before I started clicking through slides.
It was amazing to see the council chambers fill up. Not all of our hundred hoosiers made it through the front door, but we generated a bunch of ideas with merit. The weekend is a chance to try out some innovations, too. We had some issues getting a machine to run TwitterSpaces, a project I am doing with Will and Richie. I want that to run constantly throughout the day to see what people think of it. We are also using a Prologue theme for WordPress to encourage people to report short details as they happen.
Two personal disappointments came up. First, I couldn’t sell people on my Frii Wii idea—freely distributed serious games tackling social issues through Wii play—and the resulting idea, while important, isn’t as much fun as it could have been. It’s just as well because, second, it took me a couple hours to realize that there was no content going up on blogs and twitter streams. While I’ll likely hang around with the UX people the most, I’m going to be on the Meta team primarily, making sure what we do gets out into the world.
For now … an alarm for an early start. One problem with Startup Weekend in Bloomington is that my bus to town only comes once an hour. I hope Saturday is as beautiful as it is today. We will be talking event management for the next two days.