Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tom Rielly trie...@gmail.com wrote: I understand it is proper protocol to introduce myself. I'm a friend of Reuben Abraham's and am hard at work on our upcoming TEDIndia Conference in Mysore Nov 4-7, 2009. My job at TED encompasses several aspects: the TED Fellows program, the TED Book Club, Membership, and working on producing the conferences. I am also the conference's resident satirist, making fun of the speakers at the end of the conference. Right now we're in the process of selecting 100 Fellows for TEDIndia from hundreds of applicants. Fascinating, say more about this? Oh, and welcome aboard. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) Thanks Udhay, People apply for the Fellowship, or have been nominated by another, at which point we invite them to apply. They need to fill out an online form that attempts to get to know the candidates beyond the usual statistics about academic tests and degrees achieved. We're looking for accomplishments over potential, achievement over credentials, though many folks chosen will have strong bona fides. We select a heterogeneous group of leaders from technology, entertainment, design, science, humanities, the arts, NGOs and entrepreneurship. You'll find authors, filmmakers and bloggers. Our target age is 21-40, though anyone 18-20 or 41+ is welcome to apply, too. We focus on people from five regions of the world: Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. TEDIndia is unusual in that we're bringing 100 Fellows, rather than our usual 25. We also did this at our TEDAfrica conference held in June, 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania. Approximately 80% of the fellows will be from the subcontinent. In addition to India, you many see folks from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet. How do we choose? We get asked this question a lot. Nearly all the applicants are high achievers. The shortest way to explain what we're looking for: Be interesting. Many of our fellows have started an organization or company made a film, written a book, invented a product, or done novel and interesting scientific research. Most have incredibly interesting stories that leap off of the screen at you. What aren't we looking for? Academic success alone, without achievement. Many promising students would make great Fellows later after they have begun their life's work (though other students have achieved an amazing amount in addition to their studies). Folks who are already so far along in their career that a fellowship might not prove transformative. Folks who could afford to pay to attend TED themselves. And, finally, not only candidates from NGOs, though we will have many amazing ones. Judging from the applications we've reviewed to date, we're going to have a great group. Let me know if I can answer more questions. I apologize in advance if there is a delay, as we are T-minus three weeks from TEDGlobal and must select our TEDIndia Fellows before we leave. Cheers, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Jun 25, 2009, at 6:16 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: Well, you riveted me while doing so Tom! Welcome...and if you can tell me how I could get into the audience in Mysore...could I be one of the ushers? Uh oh, from what you write, looks as if it might have been sold out some time ago Cheers, Deepa. Deepa, au contraire, registrations are still open. We are fortunate that our conference in Long Beach sells out in a week's time, but it took 20 years to achieve that. At TEDIndia, We expect to have 500-600 attendees and are way more than half way there. I hope that you can join us! Cheers, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: More, more... am all ears. must one have applied already? Welcome, Tom. Hold on tight, and don't eat before the ride if you feel queasy on roller coasters. ;-) --venkat mangudi PS: Why is TED India so darn expensive? Venkat, The Fellowship application process is officially closed. If you know about a truly exceptional individual that you think we absolutely must have, I'm happy to hear about them but can make no promises. We already have a strong group of applicants. Re: TEDIndia pricing. I acknowledge that it is quite expensive relative to conferences held in India. We have two tiers of pricing: $2400 for attendees, and a limited amount of $1400 places for people from academia and the NGO world. This price includes housing on the Mysore Infosys training campus for up to five days. If, like many conferences we held TEDIndia in Mumbai or Dehli, a hotel alone might cost $2000 for five nights. All meals, evening events, and even a transfer from the Bangalore airport are included. I think it's fair to consider the true price of a conference how much is admission plus lodging plus transportation plus meals. We hope that attendees will find great value in attending. If it proves too expensive, which it will for many, know that eventually, nearly all the talks will be released for free for everyone on TED.com, and will also end up subtitled into a growing number of Indian languages for those who don't share this list's members English fluency. We have talks subtitled in 8 Indian languages on TED.com so far, with more to come. Respectfully, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Sumant Srivathsan wrote: As Reuben Abraham keeps reminding us, TED India is priced at a fraction of the cost of the US sessions. Under half-price, I believe. In perspective, the India Today Conclave costs about the same amount. -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com Sumant, The India Today Conclave is about the same price, but with Dehli hotel prices included, the total costs appears to us to be much more expensive. We definitely looked at their pricing model (and others) as a guide. TED will never be the least expensive conference to attend. However, those prices help bring the conference's speakers to the rest of the world on ted.com. By comparison, TED in Long Beach costs $6,000, $12,000 or $100,000 (five years). The two higher tiers have additional benefits, and are for people interested in funding our other work, including the TEDPrize, TED Fellows, and TED.com. TEDGlobal in Oxford is $4500. A limited number of tickets for NGO and Academic attendees at both conferences are available for $2,000. Finally, the TED Fellows program ensures a great group of 25 amazing people attend per conference as our guests. In subsequent years that number will grow as we add senior fellows. Cheers, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: Er, I don't know these amounts...are the figures occult, or could we know them? When you say TED India is priced at...does it mean membership? Attending the lectures? I don't know how the framework operates. Well, so far, TED has been free to me; I have enjoyed a very wide- ranging variety of topics on the net! So now I suppose I get to see who's paying for all of that... Deepa. Deepa, perhaps we are occult or a cult, as some have suggested. : ) TEDIndia is priced at means the cost of admission, lodging, meals and transfer. We have a one price includes everything policy: There are no one day passes, or session passes or people coming and going. And I'm happy you enjoy TED.com for free. You will always be able to do so, and over time we will release virtually all the talks from TEDIndia online. People who do attend come for the amazing audience and the chance to meet the speakers and for the immersive experience we try hard to create. Cheers, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Thursday 25 Jun 2009 12:31:02 pm Tom Rielly wrote: Rielly may be best known as founder and former CEO of PlanetOut, the leading gay and lesbian Internet company which accomplished three firsts: first venture investment in, first corporate financing of, and first IPO of a company serving the gay market. What does a gay and lesbian internet company do? Does it cater to specific content? shiv
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Jun 26, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: 2009/6/25 Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com PS: Why is TED India so darn expensive? Being one who can't afford the ticket, failed to apply for a fellowship, and wouldn't have qualified anyway, I will cheerfully camp in Mysore and expect (a) someone will see me waving like an idiot from the gate and will come out to say hi, and (b) the videos will be public within hours of each talk, so I can figure out who the heck that was who just came out and said hi. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ Kiran, If you execute your plan, wouldn't be the first time. ; ) Alas, the video will talk appearing soon after the conference, but not instantly. The videos actually take a while to be posted, because we don't just take the live mix of the conference and encode it and post it. We shoot with five cameras (or more), and then take all the footage and produce it more like a short film with editors trained in B(Hollywood). We edit out the speaker's pauses, ums and ers, fix the sound and color correct and even add subtitles, including many Indian languages. Nonetheless, I'll keep an eye out for you. : ) Cheers, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Jun 28, 2009, at 11:38 AM, ss wrote: On Thursday 25 Jun 2009 12:31:02 pm Tom Rielly wrote: Rielly may be best known as founder and former CEO of PlanetOut, the leading gay and lesbian Internet company which accomplished three firsts: first venture investment in, first corporate financing of, and first IPO of a company serving the gay market. What does a gay and lesbian internet company do? Does it cater to specific content? shiv Shiv, that's a great question. Our company was founded to serve the gay and lesbian communities. It offered news, entertainment, travel, dating, and many other kinds of content and services. It achieved some important milestones: First organization to serve more that 100,000 GLBT customers (eventually 5,000,000), first company serving the gay community to receive venture capital, corporate investment and one of the first to attract international brands to advertise. However, I'm most proud of the services we provided to people who were in the closet, questioning their sexuality or just coming out. We helped a meaningful number of people accept themselves, address issues with their friends and families if any, and find relationships. It persists to this day, but was sold to another company and has been hard hit competing against free personal ads on Craigslist.org and niche dating sites. I left in 2000. Cheers, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
2009/6/25 Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com PS: Why is TED India so darn expensive? Being one who can't afford the ticket, failed to apply for a fellowship, and wouldn't have qualified anyway, I will cheerfully camp in Mysore and expect (a) someone will see me waving like an idiot from the gate and will come out to say hi, and (b) the videos will be public within hours of each talk, so I can figure out who the heck that was who just came out and said hi. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/
[silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
Dear colleagues, I understand it is proper protocol to introduce myself. I'm a friend of Reuben Abraham's and am hard at work on our upcoming TEDIndia Conference in Mysore Nov 4-7, 2009. My job at TED encompasses several aspects: the TED Fellows program, the TED Book Club, Membership, and working on producing the conferences. I am also the conference's resident satirist, making fun of the speakers at the end of the conference. Right now we're in the process of selecting 100 Fellows for TEDIndia from hundreds of applicants. In my spare time I am producing and directing a feature length documentary on our youngest TEDAfrica Fellow William Kamkwamba, now 21 whom I've been mentoring for the last two years. Don't try this at home. Directing movie while having a full-time job is a distinctly bad idea. I'm loving it anyway. I also work on rural economic development in a village in Malawi, Africa (which has nothing at all to do with Madonna, thank goodness.) I'm eager to learn as much as possible about the subcontinent before the conference. I welcome your suggestions, referrals and queries. Sincerely, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com For masochists only: June 2009 Tom Rielly Biography Tom Rielly is Community Director at TED Conferences where he is responsible for TED’s audience, including membership, fellowship, and book club programs. He also serves on TED’s executive team. Rielly is also TED’s acclaimed resident satirist, performing his unique summaries of the speakers at many TEDs. Rielly may be best known as founder and former CEO of PlanetOut, the leading gay and lesbian Internet company which accomplished three firsts: first venture investment in, first corporate financing of, and first IPO of a company serving the gay market. He also held senior sales and marketing positions at technology startups such as Acronym Media, Farallon Computing, Voyager, SuperMac Technology. Rielly has served as Executive Producer of two films, an experimental feature about lesbian romance and the Golden Gate bridge as a suicide icon called The Joy of Life, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and Moving Windmills, a short documentary film about William Kamkwamba, a promising young Malawian social entrepreneur. Moving Windmills was awarded the Pangea Day world film festival’s North American Filmmaker’s Award from Participant Productions, producers of An Inconvenient Truth, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, and Charlie Wilson’s War. It also received an award from the Seven Fund and has been selected for several film festivals including Without Borders in Rome He is now executive producing and directing a full-length documentary based on Moving Windmills. His photographs of Kamkwamba and his family have appeared in major newspapers, museums and on websites around the world. He writes occasionally for I.D. Magazine and other publications and websites. With Karen Wickre, he contributed to Out in All Directions: A Gay and Lesbian Almanac (Warner Books). Rielly has founded or co-founded four NGO’s: most recently Moving Windmills to work on projects in Africa (Executive Director, 2008-), Digital Queers (1990-1995), a seminal gay and lesbian rights group in Silicon Valley, New Media Centers (1992-) and the Yale Macintosh Users’ Group (1984-). Rielly’s interests include gadgets mentoring, filmmaking, photography, politics, lesbian and gay civil rights, comedy, public speaking, traveling and most recently rural economic development in Africa, particularly in Malawi. As a teen actor, he had a small role in the feature film My Bodyguard (1980). Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tom Rielly trie...@gmail.com wrote: I understand it is proper protocol to introduce myself. I'm a friend of Reuben Abraham's and am hard at work on our upcoming TEDIndia Conference in Mysore Nov 4-7, 2009. My job at TED encompasses several aspects: the TED Fellows program, the TED Book Club, Membership, and working on producing the conferences. I am also the conference's resident satirist, making fun of the speakers at the end of the conference. Right now we're in the process of selecting 100 Fellows for TEDIndia from hundreds of applicants. Fascinating, say more about this? Oh, and welcome aboard. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tom Rielly trie...@gmail.com wrote: Dear colleagues, I understand it is proper protocol to introduce myself. Well, you riveted me while doing so Tom! Welcome...and if you can tell me how I could get into the audience in Mysore...could I be one of the ushers? Uh oh, from what you write, looks as if it might have been sold out some time ago Cheers, Deepa.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
Welcome. Manar [one of the (of late) shamefully over silent ones who does scan the mails and shamelessly benefits from the odd the thread. I'm sure one of my new year resolutions covers being less lame in that way...] On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Tom Rielly trie...@gmail.com wrote: Dear colleagues, I understand it is proper protocol to introduce myself. I'm a friend of Reuben Abraham's and am hard at work on our upcoming TEDIndia Conference in Mysore Nov 4-7, 2009. My job at TED encompasses several aspects: the TED Fellows program, the TED Book Club, Membership, and working on producing the conferences. I am also the conference's resident satirist, making fun of the speakers at the end of the conference. Right now we're in the process of selecting 100 Fellows for TEDIndia from hundreds of applicants. In my spare time I am producing and directing a feature length documentary on our youngest TEDAfrica Fellow William Kamkwamba, now 21 whom I've been mentoring for the last two years. Don't try this at home. Directing movie while having a full-time job is a distinctly bad idea. I'm loving it anyway. I also work on rural economic development in a village in Malawi, Africa (which has nothing at all to do with Madonna, thank goodness.) I'm eager to learn as much as possible about the subcontinent before the conference. I welcome your suggestions, referrals and queries. Sincerely, Tom Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com For masochists only: June 2009 Tom Rielly Biography Tom Rielly is Community Director at TED Conferences where he is responsible for TED’s audience, including membership, fellowship, and book club programs. He also serves on TED’s executive team. Rielly is also TED’s acclaimed resident satirist, performing his unique summaries of the speakers at many TEDs. Rielly may be best known as founder and former CEO of PlanetOut, the leading gay and lesbian Internet company which accomplished three firsts: first venture investment in, first corporate financing of, and first IPO of a company serving the gay market. He also held senior sales and marketing positions at technology startups such as Acronym Media, Farallon Computing, Voyager, SuperMac Technology. Rielly has served as Executive Producer of two films, an experimental feature about lesbian romance and the Golden Gate bridge as a suicide icon called The Joy of Life, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and Moving Windmills, a short documentary film about William Kamkwamba, a promising young Malawian social entrepreneur. Moving Windmills was awarded the Pangea Day world film festival’s North American Filmmaker’s Award from Participant Productions, producers of An Inconvenient Truth, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, and Charlie Wilson’s War. It also received an award from the Seven Fund and has been selected for several film festivals including Without Borders in Rome He is now executive producing and directing a full-length documentary based on Moving Windmills. His photographs of Kamkwamba and his family have appeared in major newspapers, museums and on websites around the world. He writes occasionally for I.D. Magazine and other publications and websites. With Karen Wickre, he contributed to Out in All Directions: A Gay and Lesbian Almanac (Warner Books). Rielly has founded or co-founded four NGO’s: most recently Moving Windmills to work on projects in Africa (Executive Director, 2008-), Digital Queers (1990-1995), a seminal gay and lesbian rights group in Silicon Valley, New Media Centers (1992-) and the Yale Macintosh Users’ Group (1984-). Rielly’s interests include gadgets mentoring, filmmaking, photography, politics, lesbian and gay civil rights, comedy, public speaking, traveling and most recently rural economic development in Africa, particularly in Malawi. As a teen actor, he had a small role in the feature film My Bodyguard (1980). Tom Rielly Community Director TED Conferences LLC 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 new mobile number: 646.256.7419 Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 t...@ted.com www.ted.com TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for TEDIndia registration opening soon.
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tom Rielly trie...@gmail.com wrote: I understand it is proper protocol to introduce myself. I'm a friend of Reuben Abraham's and am hard at work on our upcoming TEDIndia Conference in Mysore Nov 4-7, 2009. My job at TED encompasses several aspects: the TED Fellows program, the TED Book Club, Membership, and working on producing the conferences. I am also the conference's resident satirist, making fun of the speakers at the end of the conference. Right now we're in the process of selecting 100 Fellows for TEDIndia from hundreds of applicants. Fascinating, say more about this? More, more... am all ears. must one have applied already? Welcome, Tom. Hold on tight, and don't eat before the ride if you feel queasy on roller coasters. ;-) --venkat mangudi PS: Why is TED India so darn expensive?
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
PS: Why is TED India so darn expensive? As Reuben Abraham keeps reminding us, TED India is priced at a fraction of the cost of the US sessions. Under half-price, I believe. In perspective, the India Today Conclave costs about the same amount. -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com
Re: [silk] Introducing myself: Tom Rielly, Fellowship/Community Director from TED Conferences in New York City
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.comwrote: PS: Why is TED India so darn expensive? As Reuben Abraham keeps reminding us, TED India is priced at a fraction of the cost of the US sessions. Under half-price, I believe. In perspective, the India Today Conclave costs about the same amount. -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com Er, I don't know these amounts...are the figures occult, or could we know them? When you say TED India is priced at...does it mean membership? Attending the lectures? I don't know how the framework operates. Well, so far, TED has been free to me; I have enjoyed a very wide-ranging variety of topics on the net! So now I suppose I get to see who's paying for all of that... Deepa.