Saturday update: tickets available at the door for Vancouver ChangeCamp

Over 100 people have confirmed – tickets still available at the door – join us!

Vancouver ChangeCamp 2009

Saturday June 20th 2009 | 8:30 am – 5:30 pm

555 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC (BCIT Downtown Campus)

$20 in advance | $25 at the door

Vancouver ChangeCamp is a participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, social entrepreneurs, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer these questions:

• How can we help government become more open and responsive?
• How do we as citizens organize to get better outcomes ourselves?

The event is a partly structured unconference. One track of the conference will introduce the kinds of projects that harness new ideas and tools for social change. Other tracks at the conference will be participant-driven, with the agenda created collaboratively at the start of the event, allowing participants to share their experiences and expertise.

View information about spine speakers, sessions, and the participants. Once you’ve registered, please do add yourself to the participants page! This creates an opportunity ahead of time to get a sense of who we may want to meet.

REGISTRATION INCLUDES:

• All keynotes and activities
• All breakout sessions
• Free access to an “unconference 101″ prep session webinar – about unconferences and social media – Wednesday June 17th.

Blog about the conference by June 15th and send the URL to vanchangecamp [at] gmail [dot] com to be entered into a draw for a free ticket.

If the fee presents a barrier to you, don’t let it! Email our event coordinator Eli Van Der Giessen at elijahv [at] gmail [dot] com to request free entry.

Add your session ideas to the wiki or bring them on the day of the event, and claim one of our 14 unconference slots!

VanChangeCamp Schedule

After-party/Fundraiser for SaveOurNet.ca!

After ChangeCamp, SaveOurNet.ca will be hosting a screening of the amazing film RiP: a remix manifesto and an after-party at Gallery Gachet, 88 East Cordova, from 6 pm ’til late. Advance tickets are $10, and ChangeCamp attendees get a free drink ticket. Get your tickets now….

ChangeCamp Flyer 4 – BC Place

Vancouver ChangeCamp - BC Place

ChangeCamp Flyer 3 – City Hall

Vancouver ChangeCamp - City Hall

ChangeCamp Flyer 2 – Hotel Georgia

Vancouver Change Camp - Hotel Georgia

ChangeCamp Flyer 1 – The Stanley

Flyer for ChangeCamp with an image of the Stanley

VanChangeCamp Call for Session Ideas is now CLOSED

VanChangeCamp

CALL FOR SESSION IDEAS (NOW CLOSED AS OF MAY 1ST)

This call for session ideas was meant to gauge what the community wants to explore at VanChangeCamp.

WHAT IS VANCHANGECAMP: A participatory, web-enabled event to imagine and build new ways to collaborate for social change in the digital age.

WHEN: June 20th 2009

WHERE: Vancouver, BC

WHY: Change Camp is a collaborative, participatory and web-enabled event that is meant to explore the following questions:

• How can we help government become more open and responsive?
• How do we as citizens organize to get better outcomes ourselves?

WHO: Changemakers! Including but not limited to:

• People making change at the ground level – community workers, non-profits/foundations, activists, advocates
• Decision-makers and government leaders
• Experienced technologists

Big thank you to those who submitted proposals for session ideas, we received several! And many excellent ideas!

You may view the session ideas on our Wiki at: http://wiki.changecamp.ca/VanChangeCamp

What is Van ChangeCamp?

WHAT IS VAN CHANGECAMP?

June 20th

Vancouver ChangeCamp is a participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, social entrepreneurs, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer these questions:

• How can we help government become more open and responsive?
• How do we as citizens organize to get better outcomes ourselves?

VanChangeCamp addresses the demand for a renewed relationship among citizens and government. We seek to create connections, knowledge, tools and policies that drive transparency, civic engagement and democratic empowerment.

The event is a partly structured unconference. One track of the conference will introduce the kinds of projects that harness new ideas and tools for social change. Other tracks at the conference will be participant-driven, with the agenda created collaboratively at the start of the event, allowing participants to share their experiences and expertise.

The conference will also be preceded by two events:

• Social Event – Friday, June 19;
• Introduction to Unconferences, designed to help first-time unconference-goers to clarify their intentions and expectations – Date TBD

CALL FOR SESSION IDEAS:

The call for ideas for sessions at VanChangeCamp is now open! Please fill out our online form with your ideas here.

Go to our form to submit your session proposals!

Sessions Planning Committee Meeting Mar 26 5:30pm Liveblog

The liveblogging of tonight’s meeting will be here. The meeting will be at 5:30pm.

Unfortunately WordPress won’t let us embed the Cover It Live liveblog viewer directly into this post…

…but you can watch it here.