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iLondon : regular f2f mini-summit in London
Much like the yearly iCommons Summit, we hope to bring together people working in open culture to present, discuss and work together on projects of mutual interest.
Category: Culture
Project end date: 4/7/2020 (4366 days to go)
Creation date: 7/7/2007 15:57
Development stage: active
city: London
country: United Kingdom
Other countries: International
Main Language: English
Number of people involved: 5
Our aim is for quarterly weekend meetings in London, arriving Friday evening, working saturday and half-day sunday, ending Sunday afternoon.
Meetings will be run in BarCamp style, self-organizing on Friday.
The ideas are simply:
1) when we physically get together, good things happen
2) we should get together more often
3) no pre-set agenda, main goal is getting together and talking/working on whatever is top of mind
4) use a BarCamp http://barcamp.org/ style self-organizing
5) include socializing time (like the Summit does)
6) keep the cost very low, just travel cost, to minimize barrier, and London is cheap to fly worldwide
7) not an official iCommons/CCi event, rather a meeting of interested parties, and open to others in open culture
8) hoping to involve other open culture people in the meetings, such as Open Rights Group, Free Culture UK, BBC Creative Archive, EFF
9) general goal of fostering a closer European open culture community
The weekend could be a combination of
1) 5 minute "lightning" presentations of projects
2) 30m or 1h working sessions on certain topics
3) 2h sessions on topics of wide interest
4) BoF sessions where smaller groups can break out and meet in a separate room
In Dubrovnik, a few of us discussed the idea of CCi/iCommons regularly quarterly meetings, esp for Europe, because things really get moving when get physically together.
A few scenarios were floated, such as a rotating location, but what was decided was that meeting regularly in London was probably easiest, because
1) RyanAir and EasyJet make it ridiculously cheap from much of Europe
2) I can provide my flat(s) in London as a meeting place and sleeping place.
So, here's what I propose:
1) first meeting is October 12-14. Arrive friday afternoon/evening, social time on friday.
2) Saturday is a full day working session
3) Sunday is a either a half day working session, or group tourist activity, as we wish
4) sunday afternoon, people fly home
Some points:
1) I (John Buckman) can fit 20 people sleeping at my place, spread across two apartments. I have two large flats that can be filled with inflatable mattresses, and I can provide all bedding and towels. 4 bathroom/showers are available. It'll be very crowded if we do 20, but it'll work. I have dishware and seats for 40 , so more can come to the meetings if they find other places to sleep.
2) I'll pay for the groceries which will feed us, and meals will be group cooking for each other, getting groceries across the street at Marks & Spencer.
3) ie, no cost for any attendees, other than getting here and back on your cost, and optional group activities as we all decide.
After we do this first meet-up, we discuss how it went, decide how to change/improve it, and schedule the next one, with a tentative quarterly schedule planned.
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1 week to go until iSummit registration closes
Well, believe it or not but the iSummit is only 14 days away, which means that the staff in South Africa and Japan need to start tallying numbers and assigning hotel rooms to all those who intend on coming to the iSummit in Sapporo. This means that registration is closing on Monday 21 July, at 4pm GMT + 2, giving you one week to login to the system to book your seat at the event... more
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