March-April Visit of Les Squires to Cape Town

[Les Squires]

Greetings to South Africa,

Kate and I are making plans to travel to Cape Town in March, staying a minimum of a month and perhaps as long as two months if there is local interest in the venture. It's a longer story, and I'll make sure to lay out details as they take shape, but here is the short story.

As a member of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) Research Management Board, charged with building the social network for its 42 member associations for that organization, I will have my travel and other expenses covered for the week of our IPMA meeting in March in Cape Town. In addition to IPMA, however, I am also involved with three other organizations: Cranefield College, the Transition Movement and our work with Tim Jenkins about Local Currencies. I'm really excited about this convergence.

Over the next few months I am going to be looking for some combination of the following: possible house swapping with our home in Colorado; companies that would like to hire me for a day or so to work at their sites with their own social network designs; a currency presentation from active CES members and Tim at our IPMA meeting; a guest lectureship at a local university; spending several days with Dawn and Tim to move the CES work ahead; a party of CES folk; and other possibilities as they arise. Visiting our friends in Durban. Another trip to Krueger.

As I said earlier, Kate and I are really excited! This is really a convergence of unlikelies.

I'd appreciate any ideas you have about how to make this happen for all of us. Please REPLY below with questions, ideas, offers, wants.

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