There are two points I’d like to make: The small one is, that most of the pictures taken and most of the information gathered at the þjóðfundar are classically copyrighted. I wanted to show some of the pics in my blog, I wanted to cite some passages from blogs that write about the event, but just can’t for copyright reasons and this is paradox. If events like this one are aimed to produce ideas what good is it if those ideas can’t spread? So please: If you have taken pics, could you publish them under one of the CC-licences?

(Background of my sorrow is a fealt increase of sending costly cease and desist letters among fellow bloggers and journalists)

The other point that just came to my mind: I remember such events as þjóðfundar from school. It was called “Demokratie in der Schule” (Democracy in school) and it worked like this: The first day in school after summer holidays the teacher in our class asked us what we would like to learn and discuss about in school this year and we put our ideas with big letters on coloured papers that were later on clustered by topic and sticked on to a flipchart, so that everybody could see it. From next day on most of the topics what were taught and discussed were from the curriculum and not from our pool of ideas.

So I wonder if and how icelanders will manage to find spaces to realize their ideas.

But what I really want to know more about is lamb soup!

2 Allan and jim – try lambalundir instead!

UPD to my “LOL” comment…
I’m really disappointed. Although I believe that those behind the Assembly had the best intentions – I also recall “Hell is paved with good intentions” proverb. And it’s not just a feeling – it’s a personal experience.