Planning for Winter or Spring term barcamp!

[Suzi Steffen]

Hey y'all,

Just some thoughts for the T-giving and winter hols break:

1. Should we change the name of the group/event to something else? Do we not need to "redefine" J-school (based on what Michael told students about Gateway) but instead spur new development of classes in things like iPhone/mobile app classes, entrepreneurial journalism, website building, new digital tools, etc.?

2. Should we have a second barcamp in winter or should we have it in spring? I'd like to set one up for mid-Feb, personally, and start cranking the PR juice, but I don't want to do it alone (which is, after all, part of the point).

3. Who's paying for this one? (I still need to get reimbursed, yo.)

4. How can we get more students, staff and faculty involved — in this group, on Wave, on Twitter, Facebook, etc., and in real life?

5. We had great participation by professionals last time, with My Eugene, Joel Johnson and Abraham Hyatt in person, and others commenting on the Twitter discussion (we need to project the backchannel next time, I think).

6, Should we try to hold one of these in Portland, at the White Stag building, at some point?

7. How much more should we try to get the official SOJC involved? I'd like more conference planning support, to be honest, but that's MY goal, not everyone's.

8. What topics do we need to cover?

I think that's enough for now. Basically, my main questions are: Should we do one in mid-Feb, and how can we get more people involved in making it happen?

Happy T-day,

Suzi

[Daniel Bachhuber]

Hey Suzi,
Thanks for being proactive on this. If we were to have a BarCamp in
the spring about J school, I think it needs a couple of things.

First, the real momentum will come from having the J school fully
support it. In addition to approving the event, we'll need their
assistance in getting students and professionals to attend. October's
BarCamp was tremendous fun as an experiment to see what will happen,
but I think the next one will need more coordination, planning, and
momentum.

Second, it needs to focus on the strengths of meeting up in real-life.
There are a number of conversations happening every day online that
the conferences just seem to rehash for the part of the population
that doesn't partake in the conversation. I'm not entirely sure what
the real-life focus should be, but it might look something like this:

http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4056

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Daniel

PS It would be sweet to have a monthly journo/tech/education meetup in
Eugene that may or may not be affiliated with this and/or We Make The
Media

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