Conference call and ChangeCamp: Next

[Mark Kuznicki]

Thanks to all of the participants in yesterday's conference call for taking time out of your busy schedules to participate. It is humbling to have such smart and passionate people as colleagues and collaborators.

Thank you to Connie Crosby for posting the first iteration of the notes from the call to the wiki: http://wiki.changecamp.ca/ChangeCampCanadaCall1. Please edit and add anything you see missing from our discussion. Add your name if you are missing and any links to your personal wiki page, twitter or blog as you see fit. (Don't worry if the slide embed breaks, it's a wiki issue I'll fix.)  Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/remarkk/change-camp-next

While pulling together a call like that and dealing with the inherent technical glitches is at times painful, I felt it was critical that past and prospective organizers of ChangeCamps (and our CivicCamp cousins in Calgary) start making connections with one another in order to be able to learn from each other.  Please use this group as a place to ask questions of other organizers and to offer sage words of advice from your experience.

I posted a written description of my attempt at a possible vision of the future to the ChangeCamp blog and the slides in order to share with the wider community: http://changecamp.ca/2009/07/changecamp-next/

This is a point of departure for our conversation, not an end. I am interested in critiques on this thinking and possible alternatives for us to consider. At the end of the day, without a community of passionate interest and action behind a well thought out kernel, it will go nowhere. So please join in the discussion and lets see what we can do together.

Comment, discuss, blog as you see fit. If you would like to submit an alternative vision post for the ChangeCamp blog, just let me know and I'll get you access to do so.

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