I'll be on summer holidays for the next four weeks, but this holidays are quite special. During the last months I redefined my personal and professional life so this trip is going to serve as the starting point of my new projects, goals and expectations. I'm not sure about what to expect of it but it's surely a personal experiment mixed with some social component.

I'll pass the next four weeks (and some more days) traveling by train with an Interrail Ticket through Eastern Europe. You can check my planned route and see that I plan to visit quite interesting places that are suffering an evolution to enter into the European Union. And this is an interesting thing, because I want to explore new forms of seeing Europe, technology and social interactions.

For this purpose I created The Hundred People Project.

I aim to meet a hundred interesting people; interested in the human-kind, progress and improvement of our environment. I created a set of 100 Moo Cards with a number on each of the cards (ranging from #01 to #50, so I have a couple of each number) that I plan to give away to people I talk with. After I finish the trip, I'll publish a small web of the conclusions, with connections of the people I met, pictures of them, their stories, their goals and some of their thoughts about how technology intersect with their life. Repeated number will be connected, so the two people with number #01 will be showed up together and we can do a comparison of their expectations.

What topics do I plan to talk about with this people? Easy. User experience from their own perspective, home appliances, mobile phones, Internet, interaction with devices, and so on.

The trip would be marked in a Google Map, together with the small mashup to show up people and their thoughts... as well as a Shoutbox so people can tell what they think. It's a kind of external vision of our work as engineers.

I hope to enjoy the trip and learn a lot from this hundred people. Have a nice summer!