On Monday I wrote about my frustration with the negative balance between talk and action. So I'm organising something a little too quickly that's going to take place a little too early, to help encourage the ethos of Doing.

Hackitude is what I'd like to think of as a "problem solving weekend": two nights of designing and building solutions to problems posted by the people of Birmingham. They could be anything from mapping public transport routes to adding data to building a community site to putting together an iPhone app to monitor the city's pigeon populous. Really, anything.

As long as it's non-commercial and everyone is fine with the code being shared and licensed under Creative Commons, we should end up with bodies of working code that can make a difference.

There's a website coming, but the key thing now is for you and your friends to think about problems you'd like Hackitude to solve. We'll have a big list of them from which each working group will be able to choose, so don't be shy. If you just want to get it off your chest, I'm @moxypark on Twitter so feel free to shout, otherwise watch this space as a website will be up very soon.

Get thinking. What great idea have you had that you'd love someone to build? Do you know of a community that could really use a site, but doesn't have the expertise? Can you pair up a dreamer with a coder?

Thanks! And feel free to use the hashtag #hackitude. WOOT!