[open-government] Are you a Google Hangout aficionado available to facilitate a virtual breakout next Tuesday?

Thu Jan 9 21:14:58 UTC 2014

Thanks all.

We have our volunteers!

Once the White House puts out their full PR for the White House Safety
Datapalooza event next Tuesday we will go into full promotional mode.

However, we do have 50 or so Hangout participant slots up on our
Eventbrite now linked from:

   http://e-democracy.org/civictechhangout

Please only RSVP if you plan to tune into the White House webcast next
Tuesday morning (Eastern US time) before the virtual breakouts.

As the Hangouts will allow both U.S.-wide and international
participation without jetlag, I am curious to see how this experiment
works out. It seems to me that there is a huge opportunity to more
deeply connect thousands of open government, civic tech, e-democracy
builds for knowledge sharing and participation who either can't afford
travel or the time required for major conferences. (So says the
conference geek.)

Cheers,
Steve

Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
  Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
  Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy
  Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org> wrote:
> The White House is getting ready to announce the webcast for the next
> "Safety Datapalooza" on Tuesday, Jan. 14.
>
> Watch here for details: https://twitter.com/SafetyDataGov
>
> And note:
> http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/white-house-safety-datapalooza-resource-post/
>
> There will be lots of people watching the morning webcast who wish
> they too could participate in the afternoon breakout sessions.
>
> Have no fear, Google Hangout is here!
>
> With each breakout we can hold ten video participants. Right now, with
> two facilitators, we can gather 20 people in two virtual rooms.
> (Starting at 12:30 Eastern).
>
> We are exploring the use of Unhangout from MIT -
> https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/about/ - to allow us to have a
> reporting back session for the full group that would also be recorded.
>
> Anyway, we could use a few more facilitators.
>
> Based on volunteer interest we will decide shortly whether to offer
> theme-based breakouts or not. The themes from WH verbiage are:
>
> 1. Transportation
> 2. Food
> 3. Occupational and consumer product safety
> 4. Disaster preparedness and emergency response
>
> There could be more.
>
> If you'd like to volunteer in general to facilitate a break-out or to
> facilitate a breakout on one of these themes, please let me know right
> away: clift at e-democracy.org
>
> It will be expected that participants will watch the live webcast the
> three hours prior to the breakout sessions, so there will be lots of
> context.
>
> We also hope to have the capacity to recruit participants via the
> Twitter hashtag during the event.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Clift
> E-Democracy.org
>
>
>
>
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> Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
>   Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
>   Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy
>   Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072