Getting ready for Seattle Mind Camp 8: The Practical Guide
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Tips, Upcoming
Seattle Mind Camp 8 is coming up fast. For those of you who aren’t sure what to expect, this guide will hopefully give you a bit of an orientation. Even you Mind Camp veterans might want to look over the details, here, as a few things have changed this time around:
I don't have a ticket yet, where do I register?
Head over to the Mind Camp 8 registration page!
When should I arrive?
The doors will open at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 15. Opening remarks and introductions will start promptly at 12:00pm, so please arrive in time to check in, mingle, check out the session candidates along the walls. Note that if you’re hoping to present a session, you should arrive on time to post your Session Organizer Candidate Form.)
How do I get there?
Mind Camp 8 will be held at The Hub, the brand new coworking space in downtown Seattle. The address is 220 2nd Ave South, Seattle, 98104. It's one block east of Occidental Square and Grand Central Bakery, one block south of Smith Tower, three blocks north of the Seahawk’s CenturyLink Field, and directly across the street (to the east) from Waterfall Garden Park.
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Bring Stuff!
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Tips, Upcoming
Mind Camp is all about participation and networking - checking out what cool projects people are working on, and getting a chance to show off your own work, or to discuss your crazy off-the-wall ideas. We want to encourage everyone, therefore, to bring stuff. If you have a cool gadget you want to show off, bring it. If you’ve a website that you want to get some eyeballs on, bring your laptop (we’re working hard to make sure wireless will be readily available). Even if it’s just a cool book or piece of video, or anything that might spark an interesting conversation, bring it with you. We want everyone engaged and active and helping us out to make sure Mind Camp 8 blows the socks off of the last seven events. See you Saturday!
If you don't yet have your ticket, be sure to grab one on the Mind Camp 8 registration page!
Getting ready for Seattle Mind Camp 8: The Philosophical Guide
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Tips, Upcoming
This is an updated version of a post originally published on April 28, 2006. Seattle Mind Camp 8 takes place December 15-16 - get your tickets now!
Most of you who have previously attended Seattle Mind Camp understand the free-form nature of the beast. However, many of you will be joining us for the first time, and I wanted to try to prepare you for the kind of event you’re going to encounter. Mind Camp is not a traditional type of gathering, and the success of the event depends in large part on the willingness of the participants to wrestle the chaotic mess into order.
Seattle Mind Camp is an “unconference,” in the style of Bar Camp or Foo Camp. The idea of an unconference has been promulgated by Dave Winer, among others. As I understand it, Winer’s particular insight was that, for any conference panel discussion, you could take any random group of people out of the audience, replace the panel onstage with that random group, and have an equally enlightening and worthwhile session. The Mind Camp experience seeks to leverage that idea by completely doing away with a pre-planned program of speakers. The day’s sessions will be designed by the attendees and the schedule will be curated by Andru Edwards and his Mind Camp Counselors team.
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Mind Camp 8 Platinum Sponsor: SideCar
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Sponsors
SideCar is the newest way to get around in the Seattle area, and we're happy to announce that the company is the platinum sponsor of Seattle Mind Camp 8.
SideCar instantly connects people with extra space in their cars with those who need to get from one place to another. Like a quick and hassle-free carpool, SideCar offers an easy, safe, reliable, and completely donation-based way to get from here to there.
SideCar will be providing rides to and from Seattle Mind Camp, and giving credit to each attendee to get acquainted with the service.
If you don't have your Mind Camp 8 tickets yet, be sure to grab them now--Mind Camp 8 kicks off on December 15!
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Mind Camp 8 Sponsor: Ivy Worldwide
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Sponsors
We’ve gotta give a shout-out to Ivy Worldwide for stepping in to support Seattle Mind Camp 8.
Ivy Worldwide offers social media marketing for small-to-medium businesses, as well as the world’s largest brands.
I've actually worked with these guys on campaigns in the past, and they're a top-notch firm that knows how to get results.
If you don't have your Mind Camp 8 tickets yet, be sure to grab them now--Mind Camp 8 kicks off on December 15!
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Seattle Mind Camp 8: December 15-16 at The Hub!
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Upcoming, Announcements
Seattle Mind Camp is back! We’ve just scheduled Seattle Mind Camp 8 to take place over the weekend of December 15-16 at The Hub, an incredible new space in Seattle's Pioneer Square area. Oh, and yes, the event will most certainly run for 24 hours straight as usual. Tickets are on sale now, and we’ve already got a great group of people registered. Be sure to get your ticket, because we expect these to go fast!
Wondering what's so cool about Mind Camp? You may wanna check out our YouTube channel!
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Getting ready for Seattle Mind Camp 7: The Practical Guide
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Tips, Upcoming
Seattle Mind Camp 7 is coming up fast. For those of you who aren’t sure what to expect, this guide will hopefully give you a bit of an orientation. Even you Mind Camp veterans might want to look over the details, here, as a few things have changed this time around:
When should I arrive?
The doors will open at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 20. Opening remarks and introductions will start promptly at 12:00, so please arrive in time to check in, mingle, check out the session candidates along the walls. Note that if you’re hoping to present a session, you should arrive on time to post your Session Organizer Candidate Form.)
How do I get there?
You’re going to the offices of ThinkSpace in downtown Redmond. The address is 8201 164th Ave NE, Redmond, 98052.
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Getting ready for Seattle Mind Camp 7: The Philosophical Guide
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Tips, Upcoming
This is an updated version of a post originally published on April 28, 2006
Most of you who have previously attended Seattle Mind Camp understand the free-form nature of the beast. However, many of you will be joining us for the first time, and I wanted to try to prepare you for the kind of event you’re going to encounter. Mind Camp is not a traditional type of gathering, and the success of the event depends in large part on the willingness of the participants to wrestle the chaotic mess into order.
Seattle Mind Camp is an “unconference,” in the style of Bar Camp or Foo Camp. The idea of an unconference has been promulgated by Dave Winer, among others. As I understand it, Winer’s particular insight was that, for any conference panel discussion, you could take any random group of people out of the audience, replace the panel onstage with that random group, and have an equally enlightening and worthwhile session. The Mind Camp experience seeks to leverage that idea by completely doing away with a pre-planned program of speakers. The day’s sessions will be designed by the attendees and the schedule will be curated by Andru Edwards and his Mind Camp Counselors team.
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Remix: The 12-hour iOS development challenge happening at Mind Camp 7!
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Activities, Sponsors, Upcoming, Announcements
UPDATE: If you're an iOS developer, artist, designer, or engineer, and want to take part in REMIX, Monster Costume is offering you free access to the entire Mind Camp 7 event! Drop an email to andru AT gearlve.com to get your free ticket.
If you're an iOS developer, designer, artist or the like, you'll wanna pay attention to yet another reason why Seattle Mind Camp 7 is where you'll wanna be on August 20! Monster Costumer, the sponsor of Mind Camp 7, will be hosting REMIX - an overnight 12-hour iOS game development challenge. Teams of three will take the existing source code of a never-before-published, bare bones, functional iOS game. It is then your task to take that code, and mash on it until it's a game of unsurpassed brilliance (or, you know, until 12 hours is up.) At the end of the challenge, the team with the most outstanding finished product, as determined by our judges and Mind Camp attendees, will be named the winner - and all three team members will each receive an Apple iPad 2!
The competition will begin at 9:00pm, so you'll be able to enjoy all the other sessions and festivities during Mind Camp - but overnight you'll be battling to walk away with a trio of iPads, and to show off your stuff. Monster Costume will even partner with your team to publish the game to the App Store.
So, what is the game to be remixed? We figured you'd ask, but unfortunately that's being kept secret until 9:01pm on August 20!
Be sure to get registered for Seattle Mind Camp 7 so you can take part in the competition - and then head on over to the REMIX registration page. There's no extra fee to participate in the REMIX challenge, but this helps us plan for how many people want to take part, who's teaming up with who, who needs a teammate, etc.
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Seattle Mind Camp 7: August 20-21 at ThinkSpace!
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Upcoming, Announcements
Seattle Mind Camp is back! We’ve just scheduled Seattle Mind Camp 7 to take place over the weekend of August 20-21 at the incredible ThinkSpace. Oh, and yes, the event will most certainly run for 24 hours straight as usual. Tickets are on sale now, and we’ve already got a great group of people registered. Be sure to get your ticket, because we expect these to go fast!
Wondering what's so cool about Mind Camp? You may wanna check out our YouTube channel!
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