Union Square Sessions 1 - Transcript
It took a couple days, but we've uploaded the entire transcript of the first Union Square Sessions, an event focused on the topic of peer production and open data architectures.
The entire transcript (all 227 pages) is available as a Word file here.
Someone has also created a reformatted version of the transcript which is only 52 pages long.
The reformatted version is also available as a PDF file courtesy of the same person who created the reformatted version.
We also have created a page on our public wiki where people should feel free to pull quotes from the transcript to create a summary page. We have already seeded that page with a few quotes we particluarly like.
Please feel free to blog any and all of this and link back to us so we can track the conversation.
October 23, 2005 10:18 AM, By Fred Wilson
Tags: usvsessions
Comments (4)
Hey Fred & Brad, thanks to you and your team for making this transcript available to us non-participants and non-fund investors. It was not only informative, but it was great to see the interaction and the interplay of the various perspectives that were being brought to bear on the questions you posed. Even more interesting was the wonderful insights that were shared by so many smart entrepreneurs that have proven themselves in the marketplace (several of them more than once). I've only just had a chance to read the transcript this evening (10/26-27) and it's now 1:30am because I couldn't put it down once I started reading. Thanks for sharing this.
Now I'm left going to sleep feeling guilty that I've consumed w/o contributing :-(
You should consider having an edited version of the transcript available for print-on-demand through QOOP w/the proceeds going to charity. For any one who hasn't read this, it's a total keeper, if to see how things pan out in 5 ot 10 yrs from now.
Posted by P-Air , October 27, 2005 04:42 AM
I see that the "52 page USVS" is a doc ... but there's also an html version:
http://usv.jot.com/WikiHome/PublicWiki/Sessions/Sessions1Fulltranscript/usvsessions1_fulltranscript_ref.doc/!converted/index.html
cheers
Posted by Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) , December 26, 2005 12:53 PM
I live at 55808 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?
Posted by Mike Flacklestein , June 23, 2006 02:17 PM
"We have also created a reformatted version of the transcript which is only 52 pages long."
Bah.
I hope this is an honest mistake. The reformatting was not done by anyone at Union Square Ventures.
It's called "peer production" you should give credit to your peers that do the work, otherwise they won't contribute. Why would I want to improve your wiki if you take all the credit?
Posted by Anonymous Reformatter , October 24, 2005 03:58 PM