I'd like to second the motion made by my esteemed colleague Mr. Goldstein, the gentleman from DC. Do we have a quorom? Would Speaker of the House Andy Carvin care to weigh in on this?
----- Original Message ---- From: Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:59:33 PM Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercon 2007 Find a place and sponsors. ;) --- In [email protected], "jonny goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to throw Washington DC in the ring as a possible venue for > Vloggercon 2007. > > So far we've had NYC (The Culture/Finance/Media capital), Bay Area > (The Tech capital), why not do vloggercon in the political capital? > Imagine combining Vloggercon with visits to your lawmakers, interest > groups, and such and vlogging those visits? > > The election cycle is going to add a bunch of energy to this town too, > and we can feed off and into that energy. > > Washington DC is all about communication. Every major interest group > in the country has a presence here. Maybe it makes sense for DIY media > makers to have their voice heard here too. Maybe there are some issues > that we hold in common, perhaps around intellectual property, net > neutrality, shield laws, broadband access? If so, a collective voice > beats a solitary voice. > > I'm sure there are lots of great places to hold vloggercon, I just > want to make a case for DC. We have an expanding community of vloggers > on the ground here who I'm sure would be happy to help out in the > organizing and running of the event. I certainly would love to help out. > > OK, that's my pitch. What do people think? > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rupert <rupert@> wrote: > > > > What's the most recent plan for this? Last I heard here (just > > searched) it was going to be in Boston in the Summer, and not merged > > with BarCampUSA. Is that right? Still on? Any definite plans? > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > Yahoo! Groups Links __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
