What a long time of preparation for just a 15 minutes speach ! Anyway, it is done now ! You can read this presentation, entitled Community as place : from a local perspective.

The journey was not only for this short speach... I was able to meet researchers and practitioners in community development, mostly from the USA - members of the Community Development Society. Knowing a bit more on this rich network should open doors and ways of collaborations between the Quebec's network and this one.

It was also my last participation as a member of the board of International Association for Community Development where I was elected in 1999, at the Edinburg Conference. No more a member of the board but still active on different projects : a Digest project; a North-American Conference, for 2004; some help on the 2005 Conference in Yaounde, Cameroun... So, I'll keep in touch with these charming people I met a few times around the Globe during the last five years : Edinburg (Scotland), Montreal (Quebec, Canada), Rotorua (New-Zealand), Cleveland (Mississippi, USA) and Ithacca (N-Y, USA).

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