Arbcamp 2008 one night only unconference

bkerr — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:27:17 +0000

a2geeks.org/display/geek/ArbCamp+08

Unconference organized by a2geeks, to be held the evening of December 18 in the Spark Central basement. Again, that is

a2geeks.org/display/geek/ArbCamp+08

ArbCamp 2008 CANCELLED

tozier — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:31:50 +0000

We’re sorry to say that several of the organizing committee involved in planning and setting up ArbCamp 2008 have had to step aside at a crucial time to manage family and business matters, and so rather than offering a substandard experience thrown together at the last moment, we’ve decided to postpone the second ArbCamp until the new year. This way we can better establish all the infrastructure needed to have an excellent meeting.

We will make sure you hear more about it, here, as soon as practical.

ArbCamp 2008: Publishing

tozier — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:36:25 +0000

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.

What: A two-day unconference is focused this year on the broad theme of “Publishing”

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.