On 23 Feb 2007, at 10:11, Deirdre Straughan wrote: > > try to get funding to bring in "worthy" vloggers from other parts > of the world
Brilliant idea IMO. But, as you say, finding the funding, finding the vloggers (what is "worthy"?) and dealing with US Immigration would be a Herculean task in the time available. > > nothing wrong with us chickens, but let's try to expand the pool > to people who do videoblogging but don't necessarily consider > > themselves videobloggers, e.g. some of the YouTube people - at > least make an effort to invite them! > > widen the circle in every possible way. Tear up the "A List", forget > > the same old names, invite the Z List. Get out and find people > who are NOT > > part of this group and, when/if they show up, make them feel welcome YAY! Down with heirarchy, up with talking about why so many people do things differently. "Us And Them" won't help share the pros and cons of different publishing systems. I want to find loads more people whose films, lives, moments and docs I can watch on the Underground (in both senses of the word). All those millions of people who use and love YouTube are lost to me at the moment, and 99.9% don't even know why or how they could transform their publishing methods/quality/content/audience and find a different type of community. > > No panels, no speakers. We're all makers here as well as > audience. why would we have an event where we sit passively and listen > > to the so-called experts? WE are the experts. What format can we > use to share knowledge without descending into utter chaos? YAY AGAIN! The Barcamp model of everyone contributing something seems to work, from what i hear - and it seems to work because everyone *has* to present. As long as people feel comfortable presenting about *anything*, and no one makes anyone feel stupid or boring. A Big Welcome has to be part of this atmosphere, I would think, to counter the natural tendency that people have to gravitate to 'comfortable' groups and cliques. Hmm. All this is beginning to sound like Communism. I hope it doesn't sap and impurify all of my precious bodily fluids. Rupert [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
