ArbCamp 2008: Publishing
ARBCAMP 2008 HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEEN CANCELLED.
ArbCamp is for anyone who wants to make a difference.
Company owners, technologists, publishers, authors, students, engineers, retirees, computer programmers, hackers, gurus, slackers, government officials, luminaries, smart people, not-so-smart people. It’s for everyone who wants to come together for an intense weekend and make something happen. The venue has been provided, the forum for conversation has been set up, and other people to talk with will be there.
Come and pick a topic, organize a session, mobilize a group, start your company, publish your book or your CD or your blog or your revolution. Just do it.
ArbCamp 2008 is a two-day gathering for people to share and learn in an open environment. The very broad organizing theme is Publishing.
ArbCamp will be a time to see what other people are working on, to meet new people from nearby and far away, and to listen, demo, scheme, build, argue, think and make.
You’re invited!
ArbCamp is an UnConference, based on Open Space Technology meeting rules, with a self-structuring agenda and a core principle of adaptability. Our goal is to get technologists, innovators, marketers, businesspeople, poets, academics, students and activists engaged with one another for two intense days. Everybody who attends will collectively set the agenda for the conference, with food, meeting spaces, and a basic schedule provided. We do ask for advance registration, at very low cost, though walk-in registration will be available.
ArbCamp is intended to be more open, more free, and less bound by formal rules of participation and earnestness than most meetings you’ve ever been to.
ArbCamp is for creating community: the most important part of what we’ll do is discover how we can work with each other.
Every time you have a conversation you wouldn’t have had otherwise, that’s a success.
Who: ArbCamp 2008 is for anybody who has an idea or an interest, experience or a business, a mission or a goal that involves taking recorded ideas and showing them to other people. That’s book publishing, news media, web development, music publishing, printing, marketing, activism, blogging, podcasting, film production, social media.
When: October 18-19. 9am-5pm both days. Several external events are being planned for evenings.
Where: Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College, 4700 East Huron River Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
Why: ArbCamp is an annual event focused around the idea of making cool things happen in Ann Arbor. ArbCamp 2007 drew over 100 people. This year’s event has been extended to two days, and we hope to draw more than 250 people to Southeast Michigan.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Is Arbcamp still set for October 18-19? There is a .Net conference at WCC on the 18th.