Happy May Day to all my labour movement friends!

In Ottawa now, having helped host a lovely Art of Hosting workshop in Pembroke Ontario.   This was my 20th Art of Hosting gathering as a participant or a teacher.   It was a sweet one, with lots of work on personal hosting and what it takes to connect to source, individually and collectively.   Rich threads emerging, but I wonder when I will have time to reflect on them.

Off to Kelowna now to do a half day Open Space for my friends at the ASsembly of BC Arts Councils during their annual meeting.   From Kelowna I return to California for the last leg of the 20 day road trip with a vistt to Hoopa California, to look at how radio station KIDE has had an impact on the community, part of a project I am involved in with Public Radio Capital out of Minnesota to create an easy to use framework for measuring the multiple impacts of Native public radio stations in Native communities.   If anyone has doen similar work, I’d be interested in hearing from you.

The 2009 Kellogg Food and Society Gathering for Good Food began 45 minutes ago here in San Jose.   Two and a half days of   conversation is now underway.   The gathering will feature a nearly full day in Open Space tomorrow and a participatory half day of closing.   Today is the kick off – speakers and presenters and so on.

Last year we tried to awaken to social networking spirit when we were in Phoenix, but the hotel wanted $10,000 a day for universal wireless (Sheraton Wild Horse Canyon, in case you wanted to know) and so it wasn’t possible.   This year, the Fairmont San Jose has realized that providing wireless means people can talk live about how great your hotel is.   So we   have wireless and lots of folks are twittering and blogging and flickring and facebooking.   So if you would like to follow along with the collective live blog stream, you can do so through the conference website or by following the twitter feed directly which is acting as the defacto collective live blogging platform.

On on the road again and posting will probably be light for the next little while, but here are the links that have caught my eye and fed my curiosity this week:

• Ton Zylstra on closed systems and the financial collapse

Morsels that are left on my plate:

• Mary Statcy on solving complex problems
• Omegle.   Hmm.
• Steph Larsen on the systemic solutions to food reform.
• A collection of traditional teachings from five First Nations, including audio
• Johnnie Moore on a great workshop on noticing
• Tom Atlee and Peggy Holman start a list of videos about Open Space

Hungry?  Eat…

• Niels Teunis invites us to kill the mission statement and find three words instead.
• Dervala Hanley tweets the death of the MBA.
• Ria Baeck republishes Fancis Moore Lappe on wyas systems can redesign food systems
• Johnnie Moore blogging Dave Snowden blogging some interesting peer learning in the hotel industry.
• Aftab Erfan blogs about a Deep Democracy event in South Africa.
• Peggy Holman is blogging her new book on Patterns of Change and looking for comments
• Henry Mintzberg on the failure of management training