Announcing "Open Government: Strategies and Tactics from the Play Book", Nov 16th in DC

[Lucas Cioffi]

A note to the members of this group:

Thank you for all the help with planning so far!

OGD Uncon was originally just a one-off event. But over the past few
weeks, fellow planners advocated for a series of events to sustain the
tremendous energy which will be necessary to implement the OGD. There
is a need for a series of workshops and unconferences that reconvenes
an ever-expanding circle of motivated participants.

We'll also begin building an online resource called the Open
Government Play Book that anyone can edit. We'll have some more
discussion about the best way to do that as the event nears. It looks
like it will be a wiki or using Wagn.Org or synching with NAPA's
Collaboration Project wiki.

We hope you can join us for the first in this series. Details are
below.

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To the Open Government Community,

You are invited to Open Government: Strategies and Tactics from the
Play Book. This will be the first in a series around the Open
Government Directive and specifically designed to create a community
of support for implementation.

Who: Those who are blazing the trail of open government-- this first
event is for pioneers who have already begun work prior to the Open
Government Directive being released.

Why: Successful implementation of the Open Government Directive will
require a sustained effort by the open government community. This
series of workshops will build upon previous conferences to foster
sustained knowledge sharing among open gov pioneers until the open
government movement goes mainstream within government.

What: This event will provide space for conversation about effective
open government practices that have already been implemented, with an
eye toward the upcoming Open Government Directive. Video and slides
from all the presentations will be compiled into an evolving resource
entitled the Open Government Play Book that to which anyone may
contribute.

When: November 16, 2009 from 9:30am-12:30pm

Where: Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Room A5, 901 G Street NW,
Washington, DC and streamed live online.

How:

* 90-minute lightning round of 5-minute presentations by open
government practitioners working within government agencies.
(Presenters must be government employees at the federal, state, or
local level. Full-time contractors who work within government
agencies are also eligible. Presentations will last 5 minutes and
cover a specific implementation effective practices for making
government more transparent, participatory, or collaborative.)

* 60-minute discussions about the release of the Open Government
Directive.

RSVP here: http://opengov-playbook.eventbrite.com by Nov 15th.
Capacity is 205 participants.

Please note, this will not be a fancy event. Participants should come
for good conversation and to listen and learn from each other.

This event has been planned with the advice from the 60+ members of
this Google Group. Lead organizers are Lucas Cioffi (AthenaBridge),
Stephen Buckley (UStransparency.com), and Kaliya Hamlin
(Unconferences.net).