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Which brings me to my third topic, and I'm sorry to run on. OpenCongress.org has a base of political players based on Semantic Mediawiki, for example http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party | Which brings me to my third topic, and I'm sorry to run on. OpenCongress.org has a base of political players based on Semantic Mediawiki, for example http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party | ||
[[File:Lombardi1.jpg]] | [[File:Lombardi1.jpg|350px|Marc Lombardi diagram of people and organizations connects responsibility]] | ||
[[File:TheyRule-450.gif]] | [[File:TheyRule-450.gif|350px|Theyrule.net graph of people and organizations connects responsibility]] | ||
My feeling is it's timely and appropriate to create shared public databases for these sort for public participants — public and private companies, government units and representatives, and individual people when they have public interaction. Mark Lombardi and theyrule.net explored these ideas, and my feeling is, past the unnecessary conspiratorial air, they will generate constant public interest and have great value in opening up relevant information, and also help to connect efforts in a "wetry.org" way. Canbudget helps to explore this in pages that add information and costs on pages like http://canbudget.zooid.org/wiki/2010/G20 Now I'm working on tools to discover relationships and present them effectively. | My feeling is it's timely and appropriate to create shared public databases for these sort for public participants — public and private companies, government units and representatives, and individual people when they have public interaction. Mark Lombardi and theyrule.net explored these ideas, and my feeling is, past the unnecessary conspiratorial air, they will generate constant public interest and have great value in opening up relevant information, and also help to connect efforts in a "wetry.org" way. Canbudget helps to explore this in pages that add information and costs on pages like http://canbudget.zooid.org/wiki/2010/G20 Now I'm working on tools to discover relationships and present them effectively. | ||
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Vancouver 49° 15' 39.14" N, 123° 6' 50.23" W Arts Theatre Group
The Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT) is a non-profit organization motivated to stage Asian-Canadian productions. As an ethnic theatre company in Vancouver, our mandate is to provide performance opportunities for Asian-Canadian actors, to reclaim the Asian stereotypes, to stage productions that provide non-stereotypical roles for Asian-Canadian actors, to showcase Asian-Canadian cultural themes/stories and to represent the hyphenated Asian on stage in a contemporary setting.
In the past 10 years, VACT has produced over 27 productions and has developed an Asian Canadian theatre community and audience in Vancouver. Most recently VACT produced Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple with Chinese subtitles to encourage ESL audience members to attend English speaking theatre. VACT’s signature event is its annual comedy nights which have become an underground cult phenomenon. Although VACT's mandate is to cater to Asian Canadians, VACT's audiences also include non-Asian patrons and reflect the true diversity of the city of Vancouver and Canada's multiculturalism.