I've never been associated with such a project in such an important location. I want to pay tribute to many of the people who made this possible, and share a few lessons learned. I've said on many previous occasions how much this project is the result of other people's work. As the person responsible for gathering examples of good practice and distributing it far and wide I am often seen as carrying the work load on my shoulders - but it isn't true. I am sure there are people who helped who either I don’t know about or who I've forgotten. As people who know me realise, I have mild prosopagnosia (face blindness) meaning that I may have forgotten people who I’ve met. Apologies in advance. I can edit this article if there are omissions.

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Kinga Skorupska is part of the TED and TEDx Community - and through the OTP is one of those people who make TED talks available to those would would struggle with English. It's a pleasure to share info about what she is up to with a wider audience

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This is the next interview in a series where I talk to people who are making contributions to the community life in Poland and elsewhere. Ewa is the Curator of TEDxKrakow, and is active in other community, social and business initiatives. She has lived in Krakow for many years, and I appreciate that she took the time and trouble to answer my questions.

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I heard about Julka's business ventures from her father Grzegorz.. As someone who has been promoting entrepreneurship projects in Schools in Poland for more than 20 years. (see end of article for examples, links), I was impressed and requested an interview

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As a way of recognising people who are making contributions to the TEDx community, I'm taking the time to interview people who have taken action, or had a role, big or small. Mateusz Nowak was nominated by Ralph Talmont TEDxWarsaw Curator. Despite his busy workload, Mateusz took the time and trouble to answer my questions.

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Marcin is a familar face in the Krakow Start Up Community, and we are both shareholders in Notatek.pl. This blog post also appeared on the Open Coffee Krakow blog

I decided to draw attention to contributors to and participants in Open Coffee Krakow ockrk.co/faq in a series of interviews. Marcin is first so thanks to him for that:-)

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I'm writing to you to challenge your article here in which you make some claims I don't think you will be able to defend. I'm assuming The Economist's media directory is correct in identifying you as the author. I already posted the first comment beneath the article – am writing to you directly as well. As someone who has been both using and contributing to TED and TEDx in my professional and private life for a number of years I strongly object to your unsubstantiated claims in the final paragraph, which give an deeply unpleasant tone to an otherwise quite informative article. Specifically how do you justify:
"TED meetings have a revivalist feel, from the preacher’s promises of salvation to the happy-clappy congregation." I've been to many, and nothing remotely reminds me of the lunacy of Happy Clap religion. Indeed TED has a strong, public, (and enforced) stand against Bad Science and gave the platform to Ben Goldacre for example. Exactly how many TED and TEDx events have you been to? and/or how many of the people who told you that the atmosphere was like a fundamentalist church have attended enough events to justify the assertion?

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You may also know him as an angel investor, who has helped develop many of the hottest startups in Krakow. Or as a community activist, spending a lot of his time building the local entrepreneurial scene and making it grow. Or as a founder of the “Wojtek the Soldier Bear” historical initiative. Recently, I had a chance to talk to him for a while, about how our country has changed in the last 20 years from the perspective of a businessman, about the role of the European Union in entrepreneurship, and about his ideological and political views. The interview took place just after the Krakspot organizational meeting, which Richard, of course, decided to help revive and bring back to its former glory as the best-known BarCamp in Krakow.

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A great way to improve the chances of making this true is to have well-planned community building and integration so that even if some of your speakers or talks are less than perfect, at least people feel: "I was welcome. I met cool new people, I had fun, it was well organised".

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I wrote this because during the last Open Coffee Krakow on 5th December There were questions about how the whole event is organised and I realised that the best place for the answers is on our web site. The FAQ is on our web site here

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I have had a policy of not accepting "friend" requests and "Linkedin" connect requests from people I work with for a while.. it is nothing personal.

I use FB to run global projects for volunteers like my Wojtek the Soldier Bear ( www.facebook.com/groups/wojtekthesoldierbear ) project and I always accept requests from people I can see are connected to this world..

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The sparks of a revolution....
A copy paste from https://www.facebook.com/groups/TEDxFansPoland/

For those who were at TEDxKrakow Waldemar Domański needs no introduction. if you weren't check this

http://tedxkrakow.com/blog/2013/10/09/introducing-the-speakers-waldemar-domański/

Yesterday evening he and a couple of his neighbours organised a small meeting in a church hall in Kliny South Krakow.

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Chris Makau is famous for his short inspiring appearance in Chris Anderson's TED talk "How web video powers global innovation" from TED Global in 2010 Chris Makau appears around Minute 16:40 describing how he was involved in TEDxKibera

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I've been running my business (e-learning platform) for two years now. It's doing OK, but I have an impression that I reached a point where nothing else can be done to gain more users. I am not afraid of the risks. I want to open my business to foreign customers. What would you advice (apart from making the EN or CZ or DE version of the website)? Which markets shall I take into consideration - those who are close and kind of similar, or those which are unknown and scary but huge and full of potential?

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ciągle słyszę, że powinienem „wyjść do ludzi, chodzić na spotkania networkingowe i budować sieć kontaktów”, ale nie mam w tym doświadczenia i nie wiem, z czym to się je. Nie mam jeszcze firmy, ani nawet poprawnie sformułowanego pomysłu na biznes. Jak kroki mam przedsięwziąć? Co na takich spotkaniach networkingowych się robi? Martwię się, że po prostu zmarnuję czas.

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I keep on hearing about how I need to “get out there, go to business networking meetings and network” but I have never had any experience and don’t know what exactly I should do.
I don’t have a business yet or even a well formed business idea. How exactly should I behave ? what should I do ? I’m worried I am just going to waste my time

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This article should be useful to companies designing or running internship programs, who want make them successful, and to interns who want to make sure that they end up in the right sort of company where they are appreciated and valued.

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People who are into TED.com and TEDx are pretty cool. The goal of TED and TEDx is spreading great ideas. More than a billion TED talks have been viewed on the internet since TED went viral, and some famous TED talks are about Couchsurfing and similar movements. If you have never seen a TED talk then watch and listen to Amanda Palmer - The Art of Asking

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