I would definitely want to come - and it's not unrealistic that I might make it for any of the places you mention even if the Europe alternatives are much easier.
I wonder how many tiddlers you're allowed to check in on a flight. <:-) On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 8:41:04 PM UTC+2, stevesuny wrote: > > Reviving an old thread: > > I've been asked to submit budget requests for the 2015-2016 academic year > (beginning September 1, 2015) to my University. > > So: I'm going to request funds to travel to the "Tiddlywiki as Hypertext" > conference, to be held in Amsterdam, UK (Oxford or Cambridge) or Toronto in > March/April/May 2016. > > > A true bureaucratic solution: request the funding first, create the > conference next :) I'll volunteer to work on the conference program and > organize some sort of review process. Hopefully someone here will > volunteer to be chair of the "host committee" to organize the venue and > on-the-ground details > > > A quick, off-the-cuff description of the conference theme, obviously to be > shaped by the participants: > > >Tiddlywiki can be envisioned and described within the broad vison of > "hypertext" imagined by pioneers Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson and Doug > Englebart.* This conference will bring together users and developers within > the Tiddlywiki ecosystem to consider, demonstrate and document the > relationship between the Bush/Nelson/Englebart vision, and the Tiddlywiki > (TW5) community's implementation, practices and techniques. Participants > will include users, developers, scholars and students. We anticipate about > 15-25 attendees and participants. > > * Bush, As we may think <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think>. > Nelson, Literary Machines > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_Machines>. Engelbart, Mother of > all demos > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Mother_of_All_Demos&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHdBKXUMCZqz9-OGcREWEpFfeo7kA> > > Anyone interested? > > //steve. > > On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at 9:53:43 AM UTC-4, stevesuny wrote: >> >> About 18 months ago, in another thread, Dickon wrote: >> >> *"Conference?: This leads me to suggest that one way forward would be to >> think about that old fashioned idea of getting people together to share how >> they are using TS... I am not so interested in the technical development >> (though am in awe of you who do it!) but I would like to hear narratives >> of how other people are using their spaces and the various things >> that this-being-TS (rather than some other blogging space) allows them to >> do this. I suppose I would suggest a small conference - get >> some people together who can talk about how they are using TS - why they >> are using TS and not something else out there. * >> >> I agree that this be a good idea. I don't know if it should be TW5 or >> Classic, or if it matters. I've not made the leap to TW5 (I'm a tiddlyspace >> user), so I think I'm partial to TW Classic, but I could be convinced >> otherwise. >> >> I imagine a small group of users, perhaps gathered digitally, but ideally >> face-to-face, maybe 10-15 attendees, to share what we've been doing. I've >> been using tiddly* (mostly, tiddlyspace) as a platform to support teaching >> & learning (the "SUNYIT users" in tiddlyspace), and would love to share in >> understanding what others are doing. Forcing ourselves to gather our >> findings in a presentation space might enable us to learn from each other. >> And this moment in time (especially with the uncertainty in the tiddlyspace >> world) might be opportune. >> >> Anyone interested? If I get 3-4 responses here, I'll initiate a broader >> discussion when we can start talking about timing and location. One >> motivating factor for me: a looming deadline for small-grant submission >> (May 15) that I'd hope to use to fund my participation & travel. >> >> //steve. >> Steve Schneider >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> SUNY Institute of Technology >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/55e8f50d-242c-4a81-adfe-cf301e3d91e5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
