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
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