I can't help feeling, while our city's creative funds dry up and the talent we harbour is shut out in favour of "professionals" (ie: people from #thatlondon), we've become very, very good at talking about the problems we're facing and how we can solve them, and not so good at actually solving them.

So to that end, who fancies a hacking weekend? I'm not proposing a date, time or venue just yet, but I like the idea of throwing a bunch of problems on a wall and letting Birmingham's creative talent solve them, in small groups or single parties. By "problems" I could mean anything from tacking on new features and adding data to BCCDIY, building up Live Brum, giving some love to the Rhubarb Radio website or anything from scratch or pre-existing that is open source and not for profit. All the work would be owned by the community who developed it, and available under SVN for anyone to checkout.

I'd like to keep it digital as that's the world I'm familiar with, and I think it's the area in which so much gets said and so little done (by the people who do the talking, I mean). So how about coming together from a Friday evening to a Sunday afternoon, finding a space, getting some beer and pizza in, laying down some sleeping bags, plugging in your laptops and solving some problems?

Let's do something for Birmingham. Not to show up another city or to pat ourselves on the back at the next industry conference, but for the love and the craft of it. Waddayasay?