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Great to see it all coming together! At all BarCamp events I've attended in the past, participants made a Some of the best presentations I've seen have been a synthesis of many My suggestion, for consideration by others, is that we drop the stream titles. Rob On Jan 6, 2008 11:02 PM, Jeremygould <jeremygo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fair points Richard. Its not meant to be prescriptive but more > All we are trying to do is stimulate some debate around the content > I still think there's plenty of space in the day for the kind of > Incidentally, I understand that there is a further event planned for > Jeremy > On 6 Jan 2008, at 22:19, memespring wrote: > > Great stuff! > > Sorry if this sounds a little negative, but the structure sounds a > > Unconference things like this Ive been to before have worked best when > > Great thats its up and running though :) > > Richard > > -- > > Help map the world's online communities: www.groupsnearyou.com
schedule on each day. This is part of the magic of the unconference:
you give the participants freedom to express their ideas, and you
maximize, not for structure, but for serendipity.
ideas and defy categorization. It'd be a
shame if we miss out on seeing such presentations due to perceived
schedule category constraints. Also it'd be a shame if opportunities
for cross fertilization are missed because all people who self
identify themselves with one stream title don't see any people from
the others.
> encouraging for those who have informally expressed an interest but
> have not signed up yet. In particular, this means those working on
> web stuff inside government/public sector. There's a list of great
> people signed up who have loads of expertise and experience to share.
> But in my mind, if the people who actually do this stuff aren't there
> then we are all missing a trick and an opportunity to create a common
> vision about what we should be doing and how.
> of the day in advance so that people have an idea about, 1. what to
> expect and 2. where they might fit in. But it is all completely open
> for debate, amendment and change depending on what the participants
> want.
> stuff you are interested in.
> March which is much more focused on use of data, mash-ups, civic
> hacking etc in particular rather than improving the way government
> uses the web generally, but I am not involved in that one so can't
> give you any more detail than that. Will ask around though and try
> and update you.
> > bit, um structured. Looking down the list of people wanting to talk on
> > the wiki, they dont all seem to fit neatly into the categories below
> > (mainly the civic hacking peeps). And it makes what the wiki promises
> > to be a very interesting event an bit dry.
> > this kind of thing is worked out on the day, or just a random
> > allocation of slots/rooms.
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