On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Catherine Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would it be possible to hold WhereCamp the weekend before Where 2.0? My > thought it that Memorial Day weekend may be a problem for some people. > Travel and hotel costs may be slightly higher and those with kids or loved > ones with the day off may want to spend time with them. >
When this has been discussed in the past the general idea was that everyone is preparing for Where (presentations, organizing, booths, etc.) so "sitting around" brainstorming may not be an option. In addition, there are often many new announcements that people wouldn't be able to talk about beforehand. I could imagine that it would be interesting to demo/highlight some of the interesting hacks at Where2.0 that come out of a preceding WhereCamp, but WhereCamp is also exhausting, and going from all-nighters into a conference would be trying. From my perspective, WhereCamp leads Where2.0 by about 2-3 years. We've come out of the exhilarating "here's what's just crossing the horizon" at Where2.0 and then can move into thinking "What's just beyond that horizon" at WhereCamp. Anyways, that's just my opinion. Looking forward to the result of Anselm's poll. Andrew > > Also, are there space/accommodation requirements for where WhereCamp is > held? I know at Google last year they feed us, gave us tents and cool > places to hang out. Is all of that required by one sponsor or is there a > possibility that those responsibilities could be divided among a few > groups. Further expanding on this thought – perhaps NASA Ames could provide > us with the space to meet but then some other group could sponsor food and > goodies. > > > > Thanks, > > Catherine > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Catherine Burton > > Member, Endpoint Environmental LLC > > Lead Organizer, Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup Group > > Office: (415) 668-4222 > > Cell: (415) 902-0403 > > Creating Your Map > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Longson (nym) > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] wherecamp 2009 space > > > > Lets do it in a missle silo like Toorcamp! > ( http://www.toorcamp.org/ ) > > nym > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Anselm Hook <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey rockstar peeps, > > Ryan Sarver and I are looking around for space for WhereCamp 2009 San > Francisco - which looks like it will be on May 23rd and 24th 2009 > since Where 2.0 is May 21st onwards : > > http://en.oreilly.com/where2009/ > > http://wherecamp.pbwiki.com/WhereCamp2009 > > Memorial Day of course is on May 25th. We think that this won't affect > our crowd very much but if you have any thoughts about this please > advise. > > We do have some choice in good spaces where we could go; notably the > awesome venues we've used before such as the Yahoo Campus - but it > just seems fair to let everybody have their say. > > If you have any thoughts please dm me. > > Also of course we'll be looking for sponsorship - please sponsor if you can. > > Other WhereCamp's that I know of coming up include WhereCampAfrica (in > April 2009 I believe ) and WhereCampPDX ( in September 2009 ) - these > folks will be twittering as well into the main channel so keep your > eyes on the twitternets : > > http://twitter.com/wherecamp > > Take care, > > anselm - http://twitter.com/anselm > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > -- Andrew Turner mobile: 248.982.3609 [email protected] http://highearthorbit.com http://geocommons.com Helping build the Geospatial Web Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
