Are You Ready for the Transit (Camp)?

Transit Camp
(from CityTV)

Alright,

Something even more timely than Saturday's post, a current event!

Yesterday, Joey the Accordion Guy and several others organized something that, weirdly, has probably never happened before. A bunch of tech-savvy, bleeding edge, [Insert web cliché here] geeks, who also happen to be transit nerds, got together for self organized Bar Camp style get together to figure out how to improve the Toronto Transit Commission (or at least it's website).

Transit Nerd-dom is usually a little weird even for geeks, but there's plenty of geeks who spend their commutes (you know, that time you spend going between one computer screen and another) on the TTC. A subset of those geeks blog, and one geek recently posted something about how terrible the TTC website was. TTC Chair Adam Giambrone responded (he's actually web savvy [cliché]) and it snowballed into a whole weekend afternoon with geeks suggesting solutions to the TTC. And TTC staff were there and paid attention. Weird.

I actually wanted to attend this thing, being a transit freak myself, but it happened to coincide with my first day of real work this year. Hopefully there'll be another one. God, I'm such a nerd.