I really miss unconferences! They were a great way to self organize and create a small micro community to tackle some interesting problem or interest, really great echos of the wide open feeling of the web in 2006/2007 era.
@bradneuberg I know, right? We had a BarCamp Montreal in 2018 -- probably the last unconference in this city afaik. We probably need to have another one in 2023.
Years ago I was invited to participate in CopyCamp, which was a sort of unconference about copyright and creation (including Maori representatives talking about winning back their cultural IP, a member of Negativland and a whole bunch of other interesting people).
I went to BarCamp in Philadelphia a couple of times, and presented at least once.
As I recall we were plugging this Mastodon instance I'm on now to the conference attendees in like 2018... I thought it might take off then, and was disappointed, but perhaps good things come to those who wait.
We're overdue for another BarCamp here too, although I wouldn't want it to happen if the organizers couldn't enforce strong COVID precautions. Also need easy virtual participation.
Voted “no” as I had never even heard of the term. Just googled it and found, “An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid hierarchical aspects of a conventional conference, such as sponsored presentations and top-down organization.” Yeah, I’ve been to plenty of those starting in the 1980s. We just call them gatherings.
Unless it is virtual, then it is extremely unlikely I can make it. Only my mom and I are trained to deal with my father’s trach. So one of us has to be here 24/7. Typically, I have the night shift. Makes it hard to get away for any length of time.
oh hell yeah! I don't know if you saw my post but I was just thinking of trying to do #FediConf again this coming year cause it got canceled during the pandemic, but if you are definitely doing this it should just be one! How can I help make SocialWebCamp happen?!
yes but they weren’t necessarily called that. I would also consider free-form general topic forums in the same vein. e.g. Linux & open source conferences often had “birds of a feather” evening sessions in the midst of formal schedules.
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•Greg
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•Evan Prodromou
•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference?wprov=sfla1
participant-driven meeting
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Brad Neuberg
•Evan Prodromou
•PierreNick :apple_old_logo: 💾
•Brian Kerr
•Fifi Lamoura
•Chris Hartjes
•Nelson Chu Pavlosky
•As I recall we were plugging this Mastodon instance I'm on now to the conference attendees in like 2018... I thought it might take off then, and was disappointed, but perhaps good things come to those who wait.
We're overdue for another BarCamp here too, although I wouldn't want it to happen if the organizers couldn't enforce strong COVID precautions. Also need easy virtual participation.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕
•Brian Hawthorne
•Yeah, I’ve been to plenty of those starting in the 1980s. We just call them gatherings.
Evan Prodromou
•I'm organizing SocialWebCamp 2023.
I just registered https://socialwebcamp.org/
#SocialWebCamp #LFG
Jason Grigsby
•Evan Prodromou
•1. Are you coming to #SocialWebCamp
2. Because we are definitely playing werewolf
Jason Grigsby
•Evan Prodromou
•We'll figure out how to make it hybrid.
Jason Grigsby
•I funded this Werewolf kickstarter and look forward to playing it whenever I can hang out with others again.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tedalspach/ultimate-werewolf-extreme/description
If someone from Portland goes to SocialWebCamp, I could send it with them for everyone to use.
David Gerhart
•#mastodon #twittermigration
Funkatron (Ed Finkler)
•Phillip Hallam-Baker
•Was going to propose something of the sort.
@evan
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•Evan Prodromou
•Steve has ☕️ for brains
•TedSarvata
•Evan Prodromou
•wakest ⁂
•Carlos Solís
•Evan Prodromou
•participant-driven meeting
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•Alan Chen
•Idris Elbow Macaroni
•Evan Prodromou
•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference?wprov=sfla1
participant-driven meeting
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•Jeanne (spellboundblog)
•https://www.spellboundblog.com/2020/02/26/thatcamp-reflections/
#Unconferences
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