[open-government] CityCamp "Day" Planning Teleconference - Thu Oct 2 - 1 p.m. Eastern U.S.

Mon Sep 29 15:53:26 UTC 2014

Coming off an unconference session at the CfA Summit, a group of us
spurred by Luke Fretwell are working on a coordinated day of CityCamp
events to kick of the new year.

Some cities, including Oakland, are looking at Saturday, January 10,
2015 to kick off the new year (and not be too close to Open Data
Data/Code Across in Feb.).

In general, be it once or more than once a year, there is interest in
helping communities add this broader interest "unconference" format to
their local community innovation networking that bridges with and well
beyond civic tech/open gov.

As an "open brand," cities can have a CityCamp unconference when they
like (some use the format on days like the National Day of Civic
Hacking, Open Data Day, etc.), however, we are exploring options to
spread this concept beyond the two or three dozen events held over the
years.

If you'd like to join a follow-up conversation via teleconference,
join us later this week.

1 p.m. Eastern, Thursday, October 2

RSVP here and we will SEND you the call-in information soon:

      http://bit.ly/citycampcontacts

Other time zones:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CityCamp+Teleconference&iso=20141002T12&p1=159

If you can't make this call, go ahead and fill in the form so we know
your city is interested in hosting a possible CityCamp unconference:
    http://bit.ly/citycampcontacts

If you haven't heard of CityCamp - the global website is being updated
- http://citycamp.com and we have two online groups the broader
CityCamp Exchange http://e-democracy.org/citycamp - and a "team"
group: http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/citycamp-team

Here are some local examples:

http://citycampnc.org
http://citycampoak.org
http://citycampkc.org
http://bit.ly/ccnyc2014
http://citycampmn.org
http://citycampbtn.org
http://opencolorado.org/citycamp-colorado/
http://hackingmadison.org/citycamp.html

The CityCamp series was kicked off in Chicago in 2010:
http://citycamp.govfresh.com/tag/citycamp-chicago/

The Chicago event is where Code for America was first announced. Today
as we go into 2015, the opportunity to broaden community innovation
engagement via local "Code for X" "Open City Y" efforts the
unconference format is gaining new interest.

Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org - CityCamp's global fiscal agent and legal host

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