Mind Camp Talking Points
At the September 21st Meeting, we brainstormed some one-sentence and one-paragraph/bullet point descriptions of Seattle Mind Camp. Andru will wordsmith and share with the list. Here’s the raw feed. Feel free to add to the list.
One-sentence description - brainstorming
* Connecting Seattle Minds
* Linking Seattle Minds
* Linking Active Seattle Minds
* Smart people, space, and broadband
* Uncovering
* Linking
* Discover
* Unveiling
* See what’s around
* Brains at play
* Caution: local brains at play
* Brainstorming
* Rain City Brainstorming
* Community-driven brainstorming
* local brains storming
* Brain City
* Meet your smarter neighbor’s brain
* Neighborhood
* Meet Seattle’s silver linings
* Be part of the silver lining
* Electricity
* Telepathy
* Grey Matter
* More than just arts & crafts
* Seattle’s Corpus Collossum
* Connect with people doing stuff that’s cooler
* Your local hallway conference
One paragraph description
* Seattle Mind Camp is:
** A self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab
* We want to meet and connect the interesting projects going on in Seattle
** To make it a better place to…
* Join us as we bring together and discover local
* If you come you’re going to experience…
* Everyone who comes will be expected to participants
* All attendees must participate
* This is an NDA-free zone. if you can’t talk about it don’t bring it up.
* Come, camp out, create
Bullet points
* Come ready to participate and share your passions (the things you’re working on/that get you excited).
* Who: 150 of Seattle’s (silver lining) forward thinkers: techies, entrepreneurs, business people, music, gamers, anyone with an idea. Anyone who’s got something that they care about.
* What: this is a weekend, 24-hour, overnight event. Huge space with breakout rooms, wi-fi, multi-track, broadband, projectors, white boards
* 24 hours of the hallway conversations that happen in a normal conference. All the people that you meet that you don’t have time to sit down and talk with. Start and stop a conversation on the fly.
* 150 of Seattle’s (silver lining) forward thinkers.
* When: (insert)
* Where: Somewhere in Seattle (details will follow)
(We decided to forget the “Why"s, but here’s what we tossed around:)
* Why: Because there are some really interesting things going on in the Seattle area and the world needs to know. [We need to know, we haven’t seen them all yet.]
* Why: To make the local Seattle known.
* Why: Because you’re cool and others should meet you [people should know that] [and Seattle’s Silver Lining wants to know you]
* Why? Why not?
* Why? Do you have to ask?