The high point of my day was going to City Hall to watch the smarter city's Team that has been here in Burlington readout to the mayor into the rest of the city. For the last three weeks they been talking to hundreds of people across Burlington and the surrounding area. They're looking at ways of reducing carbon especially techniques around Burlington's newly installed Smart meters.

There are six people on the team and there from all over the world from France from Brazil from Germany from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and even as far away as Syracuse New York. It's been really great getting to know them. I can imagine how fun it was working on something like this for three solid weeks basically outside of the requirements of your existing job

It was interesting to see what they Presented today. They had chosen for different areas to focus on including Smart Meters, biomass, electric vehicles. What underpinned all of it was the notion of data integration. They Highlighted the need to collect data to form a good baseline for current power levels, the need to share that data both inside and outside of the city To break down interdepartmental barriers and the ability to share that data as open data with the community. That all resonated very much with me.

We were really proud to have them here in the city. I hope they enjoyed themselves as well.

While I was at Townhall I took a quick peek over at the Burlington firehouse Gallery to make sure the Floersch piece was still working well. There was a great group of people on the device as I walked over. It made me really happy.

Thanks to Collins work we can now login remotely to Extend and maintain the piece. It's pretty fun to be able to login and see people playing with it. Here's what it looks like From home. When people are playing pong

Ok.. Time for bed.. Moretomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me