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Tonight Chris Messina won a Google Open Source Award as “Best Community Amplifier” for his tireless work spreading “open” everywhere.

I’ve known Chris for several years now and its been an absolute pleasure not only to be in the same space but now I get to work with him at Vidoop on a daily basis.

Chris has been an inspiration to me and he truly personifies “open”; I don’t know anybody that has it running through their veins more than he does.

Congrats to you Chris. Its greatly deserved!

Thanks to Chris, Tara and Ben for putting on Citizen Summit today. About 20 people gathered at Citizen Space and listen to a few folks talk about what they are up to and what’s happening next. I really love the space you have put together there … co-working here we come! :-)

Great talks from Pandora, Tantek from Technorati, Dave did the Half-baked exercise (which was a hoot) and just a really engaging time was had by all. I also finally got to put a face with a few names I’ve been hearing for so long and that was great as well.

Huge props go out to the Citizen Agency crew … the best is yet to come!