Jeudi 13 octobre 2011
De retour de Victoria nous avons pris un café avec Alec, énergique informaticien qui travaille pour le Public Knowledge Project, un projet qui vise a rendre plus accessible les ressources universitaires. Pour en savoir un peu plus à ce sujet, nous tenterons de rencontrer le fondateur de ce projet qui enseigne à Stanford non loin de San Francisco, à suivre donc…
Mercredi, Mark nous accompagne au jardin de Strathcona qui est un des plus ancien jardin communautaire de Vancouver. Ici il n’y a pas d’allées cimentées et la séparation des différents jardins n’est pas évidente, l’ensemble dégage une agréable sensation d’harmonie naturelle. Le premier dimanche de chaque mois tout les jardiniers se retrouvent pour échanger et entretenir les parties communes, les bancs et la « bibliothèque génétique » de la pomme qui se compose d’un verger où se retrouve plus d’une centaine de pommiers tous issu de différents pays et/ou époques.
Nous y faisons la connaissance de David, un des plus anciens membre actif, pour lui, à la naissance de ses enfants, il voulait leur offrir le meilleur : « cultiver son jardin » apparu comme un des moyens d’y parvenir.
Vendredi, Scott nous reçoit chez lui. Il est un des fondateurs de Free Geek Vancouver et nous passons une bonne partie de la matinée à échanger sur la création de l’association, les difficultés qu’elle a rencontrée et les motivations qui l’anime.
Samedi matin, grâce au bon plan de Roland, nous nous retrouvons à la patinoire pour assister à un entrainement de l’équipe locale : Les Canucks. Une occasion de découvrir le Hockey en vrai et de mesurer à quel point ce sport est populaire par ici : plus de la moitié de l’arène est occupée soit environ 9000 personnes dont l’essentiel arbore fièrement les couleurs de l’équipe.
Le week-end de Thanks giving sera ponctué par un Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Back from Victoria we had coffee with Alec, energetic professional who works for the Public Knowledge Project, a project that aims to make more accessible the academic resources. To know more about it, we will try to meet the founder of this project who teaches at Stanford University near San Francisco, to be continued …
Wednesday, Mark is with us in the garden of Strathcona is one of the oldest community garden in Vancouver. Here there are no aisles, and cemented the separation of different gardens is not obvious, the set has a pleasant feeling of natural harmony. The first Sunday of each month all the gardeners gather to share and maintain public areas, benches and « genetic library » of the apple which consists of an orchard which is found over a hundred apple trees resulting from all different countries and / or times.
We’ll meet David, one of the oldest active member, for him, the birth of his children, he wanted to offer them the best, « cultivating his garden » emerged as a means to achieve it.
Friday, Scott welcomes us home. It is one of the founders of Free Geek Vancouver and we spend a good part of the morning to discuss the creation of the association, the difficulties it has encountered and the motivations behind it.
Saturday morning, thanks to the good plan of Roland, we end up at the rink to watch a training of the local team: The Canucks. An opportunity to discover the true Hockey and measure how the sport is popular around here: more than half of the arena is occupied about 9,000 people, most of which proudly wears the colors of the team.
The weekend of Thanks Giving will be punctuated by an unexpected package from France, the bearer of news and a bag of horns of the Vosges forest … scent of the country that we share with our host for a last meal together on the following Tuesday … Thursday in the first hour we cross the border towards Seattle where we will spend a few days before joining San Franciscocolis inattendu de france, porteur de nouvelles et d’un sachet de trompettes de la mort des forêts vosgiennes… un parfum du pays que nous partageons avec notre hôte pour un dernier repas en commun le mardi suivant… Ce matin à la première heure nous passons la frontière direction Seattle ou nous passerons quelques jours avant de rejoindre San Francisco.
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thursday, October 13, 2011
Back from Victoria we had coffee with Alec, energetic professional guy who works for the Public Knowledge Project, a project that aims to make more accessible academic resources. To know more about it, we will try to meet the founder of this project who teaches at Stanford University near San Francisco…
Wednesday, Mark is with us in the garden of Strathcona is one of the oldest community garden in Vancouver. Here there are no aisles, and cemented the separation of different gardens is not obvious, the set has a pleasant feeling of natural harmony. The first Sunday of each month all the gardeners gather to share and maintain public areas, benches and « genetic library » of the apple which consists of an orchard which is found over a hundred apple trees resulting from all different countries and / or periods.
We meet David, one of the oldest active member, for him, at the birth of his children, he wanted to offer them the best, « cultivating his garden » emerged as a means to achieve it.
Friday, Scott welcomes us home. he is one of the founders of Free Geek Vancouver and we spend a good part of the morning to discuss the creation of the association, the difficulties it has encountered and the motivations behind it.
Saturday morning, thanks to the good plan of Roland, we end up at the rink to watch a training of the local team: The Canucks. An opportunity to discover the true Hockey and measure how the sport is popular around here: more than half of the arena is occupied about 9,000 people, most of which proudly wears the colors of the team.
The weekend of Thanks Giving will be punctuated by an unexpected package from France, the bearer of news and a bag of black trumpet from Vosges forest … scent of home that we share with our host for a last meal together on the following Tuesday … this morning, we cross the border towards Seattle where we will spend few days before driving down to San Francisco.