Translation of post by Jorge Montoya on hiperbarrio.org [ES]

OnMarch 7th and 8th the Digital Culture  Festival in Medellín took place, Medelink 2008 [ES] . We were there representing our project. The main objective we drew for our presence there was to bring more people into our project of sharing knowledge with as many people as possible.

Two whole days standing behind a table, where some participants from previous workshops talked about their experiences and motivated others to join our network. AS a result, we know have a database where we have collected  a good number of people willing to be either facilitators or give workshops, and others who are interested in taking the workshops themselves and help the hiperbarrio family grow.

We also met with people belonging to local innitiatives who expressed the desire to join this project which bit by bit has stopped belonging to us and know belongs to everyone. We already have scheduled appointments with these organizations to see how we can work with their needs and what will be the steps to follow.

After this event, we are left with a positive balance regarding expectations and achievements. We need to look towards the future which will surely also bring great satisfaction to those of us who believe that we are doing useful, worthy and worthwhile work.

To each and everyone who has expressed their support, to those who volunteered, to those who are waiting to be a part of this process, to the Medelink organizers and the HiperBarrio team who were those two days telling their stories in person: Thanks!

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More about the event:

• Medelink va por buen camino [ES] [Víctor Solano]
• Top 10 Medelink 2008[ES] [La Rana Berden]
• Reflexiones post Medelink ¡Cultura libre y viva! [ES] [Carolina Botero]
• Después de Medelink [ES] [Medea]
• Medelink 2008 [ES] [Patton]
• Musicatosis en Medelink [ES] [Mancho]
• Tras la primavera de las blogs [medelink] [ES] [Cristóbal Cobo]