Salut-hi, everyone! Many of you have already received personal
invitations to attend RecentChangesCamp Montreal; for those of you who
we've missed, I wanted to send this broadcast message. I realize it's
slightly off-topic but I think it's of general interest to
Wikimedia-involved people in Canada. Apologies for dupes; feel free to
chew me out off-list.
My name is Evan Prodromou; I'm a Web technologist, writer, Free
Software/Culture advocate and entrepreneur. Among other things, I'm the
founder of Wikitravel (
http://wikitravel.org/), the Open Content,
wiki-edited travel guide. I'm also a MediaWiki developer and a Wikipedia
en: administrator. I've been a Wikipedian since 2002.
I'm writing as one of the volunteer organizers of RecentChangesCamp
Montreal. RecentChangesCamp is a world-wide "unconference" for wiki
technologists, wiki users and wiki admins. Also invited are people from
related technology and community practises, as we look for common ground
on community, collaboration, and self-organizing behaviour. The event is
free of charge for all participants. The previous two RecentChangesCamp
events in Portland have been extremely fun and interesting for
participants.
http://www.recentchangescamp.org/
RecentChangesCamp Montreal ("RoCoCoCamp") will be held in Montreal from
18-20 May 2007. It will be a three-day conference with the agenda set by
the participants, using [[Open Space Technology]].
http://www.rocococamp.info/
No keynotes, no hours-long slide presentations, no conference tracks:
the emphasis of RecentChangesCamp is on bringing together smart,
passionate, talented people for productive, peer-to-peer talks.
People involved with or concerned about the Wikimedia Foundation and WMF
activities in Canada are strongly encouraged to attend. Not only will
there be opportunities to talk about and work on Foundation issues with
other WMF participants, but there will also be participants from other
non-profit and for-profit wiki organizations as well. It's a great
opportunity for sharing WMF experiences and for gathering information
about the rest of the wiki world.
If you would like to attend, please sign up on our wiki:
http://www.rocococamp.info/Participants
We're arranging lodging for a variety of budgets (from couch-surfing to
the Hyatt). Travel to Montreal for most Canadians will be relatively
inexpensive, given the great variety of rail and air options.
Please check out our wiki if you have any questions; also feel free to
contact anyone in our all-volunteer organizing group. You can write to
me directly or call my cell phone (+1-514-554-3826).
Thanks,
-Evan
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Evan Prodromou <evan(a)prodromou.name>
http://evan.prodromou.name/