Awesome. Great work pulling this together Anselm. Really looking forward to this one.
Nick On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Anselm Hook <[email protected]> wrote: > The question on everybody's mind this year is where is WhereCamp? > Y'all asked for a 2 day event, not centered on the weekend, with a > late evening hack session - and we are mighty pleased to finally > announce the schedule and venue. > > Please register at: > > http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2403002/?ps=5 > > WhereCamp Palo Alto 2009 is the unconference for hackers, mappers, > thinkers, artists and anybody who wants to know their place. Hot on > the heels of Where 2.0 [ http://en.oreilly.com/where2009/ ] we bring > together up to 300 enthusiasts for two days of in depth discussion and > hacking. Last year we did this at Google - thanks Google! And the year > before at Yahoo - thanks Yahoo! This year we're doing it at SocialText > in Palo Alto on Friday May 22nd and Saturday May 23rd 2009. > > We are self-organized in true bar-camp style. Bring your projects, > work and ideas to get feedback from a group of the worlds most > passionate social cartographers. Topics are whatever you want them to > be. Over the last two years we've seen presentations ranging from > emergency crisis response such as the work http://ushahidi.com is > doing, to local food such as http://www.serveyourcountryfood.net/ to > psycho-geography to visualization, to mobile mapping to re-factoring > urban landscapes. > > The expectation is simply that you participate. It's your event and > we'll all get out of it what you put into it. As usual the event is > zero dollars to enter - we will be seeking sponsorship to make yummy > food and other consumables appear. > > WhereCamp2009 will be held at the SocialText Campus at 655 High Street > Palo Alto, California. Please see: > > > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=655+High+Street,+Palo+Alto,+California,+94301,+United+States&hl=en > > Note ( as mentioned ) that due to popular demand and due to the > Memorial Day Weekend we are going to be doing WhereCamp one day > earlier and closer to Where 2.0 than usual. The schedule currently is > as follows: > > ==================== > Thursday May 21st 2009 > ==================== > > Where 2.0 wraps up! [ http://en.oreilly.com/where2009/ ] > > ==================== > Friday May 22nd 2009 > ==================== > > 09:00 - 09:30 : Breakfast snacks > 09:30 - 10:00 : Opening Circle - Introductions and co-session planning > for the day. > 10:00 - 13:00 : Sessions > 13:00 - 14:00 : Food! > 14:00 - 18:00 : Sessions - Possibly including lighting rounds of brief > rapid fire presentations > 18:00 - 18:30 : Closing Circle - A chance to review the day as a > group, and perhaps clean up a bit. > 18:30 - 04:00 : Food and hacking and talking - WhereWolf anybody? > > ==================== > Saturday May 23rd 2009 > ==================== > > 09:00 - 09:30 : Breakfasty snacks > 09:30 - 10:00 : Opening Circle - Introductions and co-session planning > for the day. > 10:00 - 13:00 : Sessions > 13:00 - 14:00 : Food!? > 14:00 - 16:00 : Sessions > 16:00 - 16:30 : Closing Session, Clean up and get out! > > We close out fairly early Saturday and wander off to our respective > geo hackery - however of course please feel free to help with any > OpenStreetMap mapping parties or social activities and geo games. > Sarah @ cloudmade.com also can help organize here. We're using the > http://wherecamp.org wiki as a central organizing and planning place > for anything that requires pre-planning. Post for ride-share and any > other topics on the wiki as well. Now that we have a venue you should > start to see the Wiki shape itself up over the next few days. > > See also http://wherecamp.pbwiki.com/WhereCamp2009 > > Look forward to seeing everybody! > > If you're interested in sponsoring please contact Ryan Sarver ( > [email protected] ) or Anselm Hook ( [email protected] ). > > - anselm 415 215 4856 http://hook.org http://makerlab.com > http://meedan.net > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > -- -- Nick Black twitter.com/nick_b
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