Comments on: Oregon Creative Industries: Your input needed http://siliconflorist.com/2009/03/06/oregon-creative-industries-your-input-needed/ Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest Thu, 24 May 2012 03:16:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tad Lukasik http://siliconflorist.com/2009/03/06/oregon-creative-industries-your-input-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-6800 Tad Lukasik Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:03:33 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2009/03/06/oregon-creative-industries-your-input-needed/#comment-6800 Yes, Thank You Rick for the connect. On the topic of forming a trade association, I would like to add that this group’s goal is to help network and organize our Creative Economy participants as an alliance or coalition while maintaining the strength of the sub verticals provided by all our existing associations. This collaborative partnership organization is what the Oregon Business Plan (OBP) has asked of all the clusters that are represented in the plan. Action items and recommendations from the OBP include “defining all of state’s industry clusters and identify an industry-led organization for each cluster…” and “clusters exist only where a critical mass of firms in traded sector industry (yes, the Creative Economy is) recognize their common self-interest.” All directions are pointing OCI towards this partnership to satisfy the needs of our (Portland and Oregon’s) cluster-centric model of economic development. The OBP is the playbook for Oregon’s economic future and one of our goals is to be sure our Creative Economy is represented at this table. Thanks much again. Tad Lukasik – OCI Co-Founder Yes, Thank You Rick for the connect. On the topic of forming a trade association, I would like to add that this group’s goal is to help network and organize our Creative Economy participants as an alliance or coalition while maintaining the strength of the sub verticals provided by all our existing associations. This collaborative partnership organization is what the Oregon Business Plan (OBP) has asked of all the clusters that are represented in the plan. Action items and recommendations from the OBP include “defining all of state’s industry clusters and identify an industry-led organization for each cluster…” and “clusters exist only where a critical mass of firms in traded sector industry (yes, the Creative Economy is) recognize their common self-interest.” All directions are pointing OCI towards this partnership to satisfy the needs of our (Portland and Oregon’s) cluster-centric model of economic development. The OBP is the playbook for Oregon’s economic future and one of our goals is to be sure our Creative Economy is represented at this table.
Thanks much again.
Tad Lukasik – OCI Co-Founder

]]> By: Steve Gehlen http://siliconflorist.com/2009/03/06/oregon-creative-industries-your-input-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-6777 Steve Gehlen Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:38:47 +0000 http://siliconflorist.com/2009/03/06/oregon-creative-industries-your-input-needed/#comment-6777 Rick, thank you for the post. As the co-founder of Oregon Creative Industries (OCI) and co-author of the draft document that you wrote about; AND as someone who started out his professional life as a software developer writing thousands of lines of C and assembly language code for a Bay Area company in the '80s, I completely agree with the idea that writing code is a creative act. Those who have followed the OCI blog and/or read my comments on Silicon Florist and a few other blogs will know that I have been a champion for the concept that writing good software code is an art. It's one of the reasons that OCI has latched onto the Wikipedia definition (which is built in large part on the U.K. government's DCMS demarcation of creative industries): because software is part of the picture. While software developers already understand that, part of what I am trying to do is help educate people in purely design-related fields--and also policy-makers--about this concept. As you pointed out, one of our region's strengths is that many of our software developers have creative pursuits and many of our design professionals are very tech savvy. OCI plans to highlight that idea as part of our promotional efforts. Thanks again. Rick, thank you for the post.

As the co-founder of Oregon Creative Industries (OCI) and co-author of the draft document that you wrote about; AND as someone who started out his professional life as a software developer writing thousands of lines of C and assembly language code for a Bay Area company in the ’80s, I completely agree with the idea that writing code is a creative act. Those who have followed the OCI blog and/or read my comments on Silicon Florist and a few other blogs will know that I have been a champion for the concept that writing good software code is an art.

It’s one of the reasons that OCI has latched onto the Wikipedia definition (which is built in large part on the U.K. government’s DCMS demarcation of creative industries): because software is part of the picture. While software developers already understand that, part of what I am trying to do is help educate people in purely design-related fields–and also policy-makers–about this concept.

As you pointed out, one of our region’s strengths is that many of our software developers have creative pursuits and many of our design professionals are very tech savvy. OCI plans to highlight that idea as part of our promotional efforts.

Thanks again.

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