Tonight I had one of those moments on the Web that fills me with excitement and motivation. So here goes a wild unplanned stream of observations:

• Ever since OSCON I’ve been thrilled to read the “Creating Passionate Users” weblog by Kathy Sierra. This stuff is just what I needed to find.
• Her latest blog entry talks about her return to Foo Camp. Which is a pretty cool idea that Tim O’Reilly put together a while back. Well apprently this year people were blogging about not getting an invitation (it’s invitation only) and Kathy had the links in her blog.
• From there I was lost down a wild rabbit hole bouncing around blogs from some of the most notable bloggers around, Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, and Ross Mayfield (which believe it or not I had never been to Robert Scoble’s blog before), but I ended up thinking Silicon Valley (San Francisco) is a pretty cool place to be if your into software. I know, duh, but really this is a relatively recent discovery for me.
• I learned that some past Foo campers are putting together an open door version called Bar Camp. Which they will host the same weekend as Foo Camp. Once again wishing I was in SF, but it really made me think. If they hope this spreads next year, why not to San Juan?
• Which then lead me to think that time must work differently in Silicon Valley; for there are a lot of people leading companies, holding key tech positions, and such that seem to post an awful lot and also attend cool events like this fairly constantly. Which again makes me think that Silicon Valley is really really cool. Either these people are dynamos working 20 hour days or this kind of thing is business as usual.
• Which, as always, leads me back to home. What is going on here? Where are all the doers? Why doesn’t anything cool ever happen around here? Where are all the bloggers? Why do we keep everything to ourselves? Why if we are screaming for a conversation is there still mostly a void on the Internet about Puerto Rico?
• Finally, I’m left feeling like this has to change! I’m so past waiting for more people to wake up and realize what is happening. Puerto Rico missed the first Internet boom, and I’m going to work to make sure that we don’t miss it the second time around. So here’s what I am going to do:
1. Make sure that when the Bar-Camp/Do-Camp happens next year we are ready.
2. Work to formalize my idea to setup a Web 2.0 incubator. I’ll be in Boston later this year, maybe Paul Graham over at Y Combinator will give me some ideas.
3. I’m going to write a letter and send it to some of the biggest companies on the island; so that they will hopefully take a quick minute to at least see/hear/feel how importanly I feel about us not missing a new opportunity.
4. I’m going to become more supportive of the Open Source Minds that Gilberto and Gil are sponsoring. That means that I’ll become more vocal about us focusing on doing, and what this might mean.
5. With the remaining strength and resources left in SNAP, organize an event that will crystalize movement towards these new opportunities. Hopefully this will draw enough attention to Puerto Rico to start a self-feeding system that will build our momentum.