Wassup'08

Remember the Budweiser "Wassup" campaign? Well, the guys are back, and this time they're serious:

http://www.wassup08.com/

"Looking back on the last 8 years since Whassup?! debuted, Charles realized how much our country has changed and seized on the opportunity to reunite the whole cast for a searing film on our current condition with the hope that it reminds people the importance of voting and more specifically, the importance of choosing Obama, a candidate who is a clean break from the policies that got our country in this condition in the first place."

So there *are* IAs in France!

Update (October 24): More details about the French IA meeting:

• Goals : Find new friends, drink a glass, discuss, have fun and create an IA/UCD community in Paris.
  
• Date: Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008
  
• Time: from 7PM
  
• Place: Barlotti, Lounge Bar (upstairs), 35 Place du Marché Saint-Honoré , 75001 Paris (Phone: 01.44.86.97.97)
  
• Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/5qwonv

TWO SPECIAL GUESTS: Christina Wodtke and Melissa Weaver
(end of update)

Finally a sign of Information Architecture (IA) life in France! It's been a running joke in European IA circles that there were no IAs in France, since they didn't show up at European (or international) IA events.

Of course this was usually followed by the more likely causes that the French probably had a good internal network of IAs who traditionally published in French and didn't connect to the outside world a lot and that they used a different acronym for the field that didn't show up in searches.

Now I have proof that there are French IAs and that they are connecting with the outside world:

The French country ambassador for Euro IA, Sylvie Daumal, just announced that she is hosting her first IA meeting in Paris on November 2nd, with special guest star Christina Wodtke!

So, if you're in France early November, make sure you contact Sylvie and don't miss this opportunity! Allez les bleus!