Junto: a brainstorm
Nov 5, 2021
About a year ago, P’unk Ave’s Alex Gilbert brought the idea of having a Junto to our weekly meeting. He had been reading Ben Franklin’s Autobiography and thought it was great way to bring people together for a common cause. Referring back to our notes, our intended mission included:
- To help grow the tech/communication/interactive community in Philadelphia
- To further Philadelphia in the national & international web/interactive/communication scene
- Conference — bring them here or have one
- Center for Information
- Co-working
- Technology related to physical spaces
- Bottom up (emergence)
We had our first Junto in March 2007 and one every 3 weeks or so, since then. As we go, we have been evolving and refining the format. We have tried to keep some of the above themes in mind, but have also been very open to experimentation.
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Originally published July 31, 2007.
