Cross-posted from Two bulls in a china shop.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a week and a day since Melanie and I fixed our resolve, swallowed our timidity, and jumped right in to Twestival Buenos Aires. Our joint objective: To not embarrass ourselves or our respective nations at this international solidarity event.
Twestival, if this is the first you’ve heard of it, is a grassroots, locally organized, globally-simultaneous event. Along the lines of self-organized knowledge gatherings like BarCamp, the Twestival organizers simply established the framework and let the Internet do the rest. And following in the footsteps of more recent events like #HoHoTo in Toronto, the event was equal parts social and social conscience: all proceeds from Twestival were donated to a charity working to bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
Globally, Twestival raised a stunning $250,000 USD, which (according to the Twestival site) pays for 55 water projects in places like Ethiopia, Uganda and India — clean water for just over 17,000 people.
So who were these people?
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