I noticed this article today about "The Grid" which seems to be a big step forward in terms of speed and I wonder if this is linked to Comcasts announcement of 50mb service in the Twin Cities. At $150/month though- what does this hold for the availability of things like this for most people? And how revolutionary would this be to the world? How quick and expensive will it be to build the infrastructure for this?

There has beena bit of talk about RDF and metadata so here are some links - Thanks Arto!

Great intro/background 

http://drupal.org/node/219862

And more detail 

http://groups.drupal.org/node/9010
http://groups.drupal.org/node/8930

I am working on a roadmap for the site.  It will be a basic one page overview of what features we will support and when.  Until I get it done here are some of the top requests:

-Better email integration
-Chat and other real time collaboration
-Manage contacts and those interested in the project
-Make it easier to link/embed images and other media
-Expertise management
-Rich visualizations and mash-ups of local and distributed data

More to come....

This is a short brief on basic lessons learned from NDU Demo Oct 07.  Focus is on power requirements for ICT and some simple fixes.R,Coby