Grassroots unconference
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- When: June 7-8, 2008 (9:30am - 5pm Saturday, 9:30am - 3pm Sunday)
- [followup teleconf Sunday @ 4pm.]
- Where: 1 Cambridge Center, Kendall Square, Cambridge MA
In the tradition of Barcamp, we will be holding Grassrootscamp Boston, an unconference dedicated towards community-organized, bottom-up, user-group, grassroots groups, initiatives, events, structures, and best-practices for all of the above.
This is not just an OLPC event, though there will be a practical focus on how to make educational grassroots groups succeed, with examples from OLPC projects in Peru, Nepal, Ghana and Uruguay. Anyone from any grassroots group, or with interest in volunteer-run physical or online organizations, is invited to attend.
To participate
Just sign up below. Please do sign up! Having a head count of how many people are likely to come is immensely helpful to figure out how many chairs, tables, etc. we need.
Attendance is free as in "no monetary cost,"* and every attendee at an unconference is expected to contribute something to the event. For some people, this means giving a presentation or running a tutorial; for others, ordering 10 large pizzas to feed others during lunch one day is their contribution. For yet others, photographing and liveblogging the event is their chip-in, and for others... well, you get the idea.
* though contributions are welcome! we are working to support the event through local sponsors, but contributions help.
Attendees
Please sign up below if you can come, and indicate what you are bringing!
- --Sj talk
- Mel Chua - will serve as scheduleboard creator/maintainer/moderator, and plans to take profuse notes/transcripts.
- AuntiMame - only able to attend on Sunday.
- Christoph Derndorfer
- Holt
- Ccarrick
- Adricnet
- user:Michael Richards - may come sunday have to do class reading too
- Ankur.verma
- Elise Moussa (after workshop)
- your name - what you're contributing
Needs
- Food
- Swag
- Supplies
- Presentations/tutorials
Related events
If you can't come to the grassroots bootcamp here, there are other events you might be interested in coming up over the next 3 months.
- Open Community Camp - in the Netherlands, August 10-17
- iCommons, in Sapporo, Japan, early July
- Virtual Grassroots workshops, hosted online by OLPC@Duke