Keynote and Diktuon logo

I just attended the Scandinavian Starfish Unconference. Pretty basic Kingdom stuff, nothing new there. I also gave a 25 minute UCKeyNote2 about Project Diktuon, or more specifically the more tangible part of it, Diktuon.net. It wasn’t really discussed, but we passed instead on coffee break 15 minutes in advance, since people were bored and thought the presentation was half an hour too long.

I made alogo for the keynote.mentioned something about a logo? I made one for the keynote, and also put up couple live demo sites of  the social networking platform, in case someone would be interested. Well, maybe it’s better that no-one was.

I like the basic design of three fishes intetwined like a net and circled. It reminds of two very common Christian symbols, but differs quite a lot as well. I’m not quite happy with the colors yet. Maybe full red circle (blood of Christ) and gold-green-blue fishes (for sun, plants and sea)?

During the break I some people  expressed their interest though. As I was afraid, some had not quite grasped the point of Project Dikuon being integrally a Kindom -oriented endeavour, and suggestef that e.g. wow -networks would be similar, giving wowedmonton.com as a specific example. They have a similar idea of establishing regional (e.g. city) networks and grouping them with basic services and making a business of it.

I couldn’t tell it right away, but as I checked it, I remembered having evalueted it earlier and dismissed as unrelated, since a) It apparently has nothing to do with the Kingdom b) They apparently use their own  CMS (or at least I didn’t spot references to any of the major OS brands).  It seems that the only thing they could share with this is business-model to generate some income. But as it happens, that I’m lacking even the drive to push this forward – let alone to make any money out of this – I really dismissed that outright. It seems we just don’t have anything to share with each other.

That being said, there were also some very encourageing comments, showing that some people had not only understood, but been fascinated about it

And to to put the balance for the conference steadfast on the positive side, I was able to be there with my beloved and Little-One Kenobi. I really don’t think I would have wanted to be there otherwise. Too many tears fell to be there all by myself.

Also, it became quite evident, that Finland is a bit small place for us. Or at least for the vision. Most of the people seemed to interested mainly in for their immedieate surroundings or cities, and visions for Finland were considered big. I kinda felt I was not quite in their league.

Anyway, I’m quite fed up with it. Sometimes I think that the only reason I keep working on it is that I would feel by a couple of orders of magnitude more miserable otherwise. Anyway, a year ago I decided, that I jwill give it a year. Well, the time is up June 3rd. We’ll see then, if there’s any point to keep going.

We’ll see. God is great.

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