ChangeCamp 2010 development

[Mark Kuznicki]

For ChangeCampers (and our CivicCamp cousins) across Canada who haven't seen it yet, I wanted to make sure all are aware of the work some of us are doing to develop models, event formats and engagement tools in order to scale ChangeCamp as a sustainable and growing community of community organizers across Canada.

Have a read of this post: http://changecamp.ca/2010/01/changecamp2010creatingimpact/

In Toronto, we are convening a number of partners, change agents, designers and technologists together in order to start designing a "ChangeCamp-in-a-Box" toolkit that will enable ChangeCamp-like events and communities to spread and scale hyper-locally along self-organizing principles. This co-design event is happening on February 16th and the tools that we develop will be shared with organizers across the country.

We are particularly inspired by Peter Block's work with A Small Group in Cincinnati: http://changecamp.ca/2010/01/peter-block-a-primer/

I want to learn more about what you're doing locally, and what your interests are in more civic engagement and open government change-making in 2010. Particularly, what tools do organizers need and what should future organizers know that you wish you knew in the beginning?

There are number of new ChangeCamp communities that are emerging in smaller centres, and we're doing our best to support these organizers with tools and advice.  I will work to connect these organizers in a way that knowledge can be shared. To that end, I would encourage all to stay in touch via:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/changecamp/  hashtag: #changecamp

Email newsletter: http://changecamp.ca/

Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ChangeCamp/192640689546

If you're admin on a local ChangeCamp Facebook group or Ning site, please feel free to share these with your members.

As always, I freely offer admin/manager/author access for any ChangeCamp.ca assets (blog, wiki, Facebook fan page, logos, designs, etc.) to any local organizer who needs them. Just email me at in...@changecamp.ca. (gmail gets neglected these days, sadly)

I will be attending CityCamp in Chicago this weekend (which is gathering people from across North America) and hope to be able to report back about what's happening elsewhere. I'll blog about it on ChangeCamp.ca.

Thanks!

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Mark Kuznicki

ChangeCamp.ca

email: in...@changecamp.ca

twitter: http://twitter.com/changecamp/

[Jeff Kerr]

I am not sure that I have sufficient expertise to offer much assistance in your design of "ChangeCamp-in-a-Box", but I was interested in the specific effort to organize in Toronto. Are these efforts one in the same?

Thanks.

Jeff

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[Mark Kuznicki]

Jeff,

Yes, the February 16th event will bring together people to work on the toolkit as well as organizers who want to lead public engagement events in their Wards or neighbourhoods. We're looking to recruit people who are leaders in their community, have some experience or interest in community organizing who would like to convene their fellow citizens.  If you know some people like that, please direct them to get on the list.

Registration for the Feb 16th event will open shortly, once we go through some design work at a meeting tonight.

Mark.