
Grief is seen as a necessary process for release (of pain), named resilience. When an event causes a crisis in the life of an individual, a radical change is made in the position previously established. The last of the five stages of grief is acceptance, where the mourner gets better. The reality of the loss is better understood and accepted. The bereaved can still feel sadness, but this person recovers enough be fully functional. The person adjusts her life to the loss.

On a professional level, I ended the forum Zonegrippeaviaire.com on January 6, 2010, three years after having founded it. I tried to obtain cooperation from the Government of Quebec (Government 2.0): the first attempt at collaboration coming from an online community. The answer came in the form of a "market study" from Services Québec, which concluded that "social media are not worth the trouble to invest time or money because they are immature and not credible." This study served as a justification to close the door to any form of collaboration. I realized that the Flublogian community of practice would never become a collaborative team in Quebec. So I resigned and decided to move on. After four years invested in this sphere, I abandoned Flublogia.

In August 2010, I signed up on Empire Avenue as (e)PAPIER. I met Adriel Hampton again (I had followed him for about two years). Watching Adriel Hampton in action moved me to the point of making me cry, because I realized how the ideal of government 2.0 was deeply embedded in me, rationally incommensurable, as a passion of the soul. Hope is like a kind of appeal; it can sometimes fell like an intense distress. I told myself that I had nothing to lose. "To hope is to deny the future." (Emil Michel Cioran) I then ignored the limitations of mind. I wanted to believe that government 2.0 would become possible, and that I would find my place in this sphere.
In September 2010, I set the goal of finding a job as a Government 2.0 implementater.
In October 2010, I went to Edmonton, Alberta, where I attended the Beyond 2010 conference.



I wrote several posts about this conference: in French, this one, this one, and this one. In English, this one and this one. See all my pictures of Beyond2010 on Flickr.



I also wrote a series of blog posts related to what was said in Gov20Radio shows, thus developing French-language content:
- October 31 2010 show, guest Chris Moore, this post;Via Empire Avenue, I met several people and strengthened networking ties. Two government 2.0 advocates - Adriel Hampton (e)ADRIEL and Alan Silberberg (e)GILGOV - participated in the project Men Calendar 2011 (get your free copy), an Empire Avenue online community that I manage with six other admnistrators.
- November 7, 2010, guest Brooks Bennett, this post and this one;
- November 14, 2010, guest Geordie Adams, this post and this one;
- November 28, 2010, guest Lovisa Williams, this post and this one;
- December 5, 2010, guest Nic Adler, this post.


Projects underway
In November 2010, I was excited about the launch of the project Global Citizenship, led by several people, including Lovisa Williams and Alan Silberberg. I was eager to communicate my interest to them, and I am look forward to collaboration. Blog posts about this project: this one and this one.


I am currently planning a project related to Francophonie, scheduled for 2012.
Other projects I proposed
I suggested to promote and develop the G4, a coalition of Canadian open cities. See my post.
I talked about the need for a governement 2.0 multilingual communication strategy. See my post.I hope that an organization, a consortium of organizations, a government, or a group of governments, will support the establishment and financial support of a multilingual communication strategy in order to develop worldwide the government 2.0 tendency.
A job for me in 2011
In an interview published on Planet Empire Avenue by Brad Grier last December 13 (It takes a community to raise a calendar), I mentioned that I am looking for a job related to Government 2.0 in 2011.
"I have a tremendous amount of passion, an iconoclast way of thinking, analytical abilities, and moreover, I speak French: I can be a good voice for government 2.0. I want to find a job! I would like my dreams of becoming a Government 2.0 implementater to come true. The current Quebecois political situation is not conducive to this – our Premier Jean Charest’s nickname is ‘The Godfather’ – so I hope that someone, somewhere, will see me, and integrate me into an international (or foreign) government 2.0 team, or hire me as a community manager."Despite the vagaries of life, I am satisfied by what I have accomplished in year 2010. I managed to bypass certain difficulties and to start planning many projects.
1 commentaire:
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I'm across the lake at Rochester Institute of Technology; serving as Resident Hacktivist & Storyteller, and keeper of the FOSS@RIT Campaign (http://foss.rit.edu).
Though this is my station now, I, like yourself and other entrepreneurs, non-profiteers, and opensourcerers, had spent countless cycles seeking out a place to fit into this gov2.0 space. Your story rings of the trials that we all had to go through in establishing ourselves in this new field by finding receptive upstreams.
I see you and I applaud you. Don't stop doing what you are doing. If ever we can be a resource for you, please drop me a line. Keep fighting the good fight.
In Stride,
--RemyD.
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