The facilities, staff, and participants were the highest caliber in this field. The BNMI provides an essential international forum with focus, clarity, and direction.

~ Mary Flanagan
University of Oregon

The Human Generosity Project started with an overview of the emerging configuration of software and related network design that enabled collaborative creativity, work and exchange. Collaborative software for performance, music creation, media production over distance, learning and design are being developed by artists, researchers and organizations in Europe and North America as well as by commercial companies. Collaborative software systems enable open source management. Networks such as ENCART or Netera facilitate purposeful project development and production. Where does the peer-to-peer model work for users as well as makers? Where do we need to have shared models? What are commercialization and rights strategies for creative collaborations? How can we resolve cultural and context differences as well as bandwidth challenges? What networks do we need, and what do we need to know about each other in order to work together or to exchange objects, prototypes, architectures, ideas, and concepts?

The BNMI programs at Banff are a must if you want to stay at the leading edge. The creativity and pragmatic views generated at those events help generate the vision we need to see into the future.

~ Jan Hauser
Principal Architect, Sun Microsystems