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Website: http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/

Cell phone: 206.427.2545 - message first, if possible, then call - but if no time for messaging, just call me!

== My Schedule ==
1PM—Frontal (Common / Storage)—strategizing, thinking, reflecting, eating lunch
2PM—Hippocampus (Theater)—Mind Maps
3PM—Hypothalamus (Dressing Room 1)—Freedom & the Future
4PM—Limbic (Media Lab)—Future of Social Networking Services
5PM—Parieatal (Classroom 105)—Functional Programming with Graphics
  OR
5PM—Temporal (Classroom 106)—RFID
  OR
5PM—Insular (Office / Conference)—Social Network that Does Not Suck
dinner break
8PM—Parietal (Classroom 105)—Good Thing Rapid Discovery
  OR
8PM—Limbic (Media Lab)—User Interface Help! (for Local Names)
9PM—Hippocampus (Theater)—Lightning Rounds
  OR
9PM—Thalmus (Dressing Room 2)—Iron Wiki
10PM—Temporal (Classroom 106)—GTD software have to suck?
  OR
10PM—Limbic (Media Lab)—Collaborative problem solving w Justin Martenstein
11PM—Pariatal (Classroom 105)—Visual programming

== Group Affiliations ==

These are groups that I am significantly involved in.

Physical:

(Place, subject, group:)

* Seattle, Wikipedia, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle Seattle Wikipedia] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle3 meeting next 2006 Jan 14] (visitor)
* Portland, wiki, [http://recentchangescamp.org/ Recent Changes Camp] - [http://recentchangescamp.org/Invitation meeting next February 3-5 2006]
* Seattle, Linux, [http://www.alacos.com/ Alacos] - Windows-Linux migration automation (employee, programmer)
* Seattle, Python, [http://www.seapig.org/ SeaPIG] - Seattle Python Interest Group (community member)

Internet:

* [http://communitywiki.org CommunityWiki] - Community & Technology & Culture online (community member)
* [http://future.wikicities.com/ Future wiki] - Futures analysis & prediction (community member) - see also [http://futures.wiki.taoriver.net/ TaoRiver futures wiki]

There are many other groups that I visit or otherwise have ties with. Until [http://www.foaf-project.org/ FOAF] takes off, though, we can’t very well map it all very easily.

== Next MindCamp ==

Concentrations:
* “Geeks & Coops”—the Santa Cruz tradition—Bothell geek house, tech coop—with children?
* [http://ln.taoriver.net/ Local Names]
* [http://future.wikicities.com the future]
* How to develop a standard?
** Incredible power, if we have data output.
** But how do you get past bike shedding, and sign people on?
** “What’s it take, really?”

Goals:
* find a ‘’‘clique’‘’
* answers to the standards questions

== What Mind Camp Means to Me (short version) ==

Mind Camp means to me that we’re organizing our culture. That we, as
geeks of many stripes, are getting together, in person, and figuring
out how our interests and values connect with one another. That we’re
concentrating our attention, figuring out what matters to us, how to
make things work. How to connect, get work done, and get our stuff
together.

Mind camp is a base for coordination, a network of social networks.

== What Mind Camp Means to Me (long version) ==

Mind Camp is an undirectable pool of geeks, interests, and activities. Personally, I see it as a network of networks, a ‘’‘base point for organizing’‘’ in & around Seattle & Washington.

Foo Camp, Bar Camp, Tag Camp, Mind Camp, Recent Changes Camp, and many camps to follow! We’re using ‘’‘communications technology’‘’ to find each other, share technique, concentrate, and coordinate.

At MindCamp, I met two people with ‘’‘physical space.’‘’ I want to take advantage of one to help the Seattle Cosmic game group, and the Seattle Wikipedia group to work in. I discovered people who are interested in visual language and visual explanations. I finally hooked up with local GNOME and Mono developers, and discovered that they are forming a local organization as well, one that I want to be a part of. I discovered a person working on a project very similar to my own, and I had no idea that they existed before. I found help from an experienced Free Software developer; Got a free consultation. This wouldn’t have happened offline.

At MindCamp, we can talk in ‘’‘real time,’‘’ and discover people ‘’‘very quickly.’‘’ It may seem like we can do these things equally well on the Internet, but it’s simply not true: We can do so much more, say so much more, and learn so much more, with material interaction.

I see Mind Camp as a ‘’‘network of networks.’‘’ A social network of social networks. I think we should list group affiliations on our badges. I want to see a session on ‘’‘“Run Your Own Mind Camp!”’’’ I work with the ‘’‘Recent Changes Camp,’‘’ and those folk are astonished that there are techniques for running these kinds of things for free. They’ve raised $7,000 in sponsorship money, and want to charge $100+ fees, and here I am saying: “You can do it all for free!” They ask: “How?”  And I say… “Uh… There are these guys I can hook you up with…”

Chris talked about this too, just a minute ago. “Should we start organizing content-specific gathers?” YES! We’ve been doing it, already; There are plenty of groups in Seattle. And there will be many more. So, I see Mind Camp as a convenient base for further interest discovery & organizing.

Perhaps we should, on our name badges, list group affiliations. “Hello My Name is:” and “Hello, My Groups Are:” Maybe we should make a mind-’‘'map of groups’‘’ in/around Seattle on the wall: ‘’‘“Here’s Seattle’s technology mind.”’’‘

I *do* wonder whether we are a ‘’‘community,’‘’ or a ‘‘gathering.’’ Community seems to me to require repetitive exposure to one another. We intend to be repeating, but we aren’t there yet! We’ll be a community after the second or third gathering, I suspect. If we *are* a community, then it makes sense that we should have ‘’‘a chatter mailing list’‘’ (other than the main mailing list) for, well, chatter: Job announcements, births, deaths, friendly notes, etc., “Off-topic.” Perhaps we need more electronic infrastructure. There’s probably already a top secret organizers mailing list, as well.

Small points:
* I like the schedule on the wall. You can look and see at a glance what your choices are. It’s always available. It’s big, and easy to read. You can leave notes on it.
* I thought that the layout was confusing, and had a hard time finding rooms. If there were big signs outside the room (large black letters on butcher paper,) it would just be so much clearer.
* Every 6 months? AWESOME!

:: Hey Lion.  RecentChangesCamp registration is now free.  I think we had some misunderstanding about the proposed fees (no one ever proposed $100+, as far as I know), but it’s all worked out now and free registration is open now. [http://recentchangescamp.org] TedErnst 13:25, 29 Dec 2005 (PST)