Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 took place from noon to 11am, November 11 and 12, 2006, at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle.  The session grid is here.

If you’re interested in helping to plan the next Mind Camp, we coordinate our efforts on the Admin:Planning page.  If you have an idea for a session, feel free to use the wiki to suggest or request session ideas here: Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 Session Ideas.  We’ll probably continue to use the new session selection process developed for Mind Camp 3.0.  Feel free to make suggestions for improvements.

If there’s something you want to organize that falls outside of the idea of a “session” (like, say, a game of Werewolf), you can use the MC4 Miscellaneous Activities page. Also, we want to encourage people to MC4 Bring Stuff, to show off and possibly to trade at the MC3 Swap Meet. For anything else, try MC4 Random Suggestions.

Check this page for a list of Assets, resources that all Mind Campers will (or we hope will) have access to.

What is Mind Camp?

Seattle Mind Camp is a gathering of geeks—technology-minded or otherwise—in and around Seattle. It’s like Bar Camp, except in Seattle, and you replace the word “Bar” with “Mind.” Also, we don’t focus exclusively on technology and it’s surrounding culture, but rather on anything and everything interesting and thought-provoking.

We want to find out what happens when you put 150 of Seattle’s smartest forward thinkers together in an empty office space for a full 24 hours. A multi-track confab in a huge space with breakout rooms, broadband Wi-Fi, projectors, white boards - and you.”’’—description of Mind Camp 1.0

More Questions

Who organizes it?

The event is being presented by Gear Live Media, and organized primarily by Gear Live’s Editor-in-Chief, Andru Edwards. Andru is supported by the Planning Committee, which currently includes Monica Edwards, Ted Leung, Brian Rice, Justin Martenstein, Brian Dorsey, Jeff Barr, Nancy White, David Geller, Sparky, Chris Pirillo, Ponzi Indharasophang, Stuart Maxwell, Brady Forrest, Chris Murphy, Benjamin VanWinkle, Doug Dobbins, and Shelly Farnham.

That is to say, the planning committee provides the support to hold the conference.  Ultimately, it’s you—the participants—who decide the what, when, and how of the day.

Where can I share files / demos / media?

We have set up a Box.net Mind Camp Filefeed. Any and all files that attendees wish to share can be uploaded there, and anyone - attendee or otherwise - can subscribe to the Filefeed via RSS. Of course, there are also photo-sharing sites and so forth; ‘’‘please use the recommended tag (mindcamp3.0)’‘’ so everyone can find your contributions.

I’m still not sure I get it

That’s not really a question.

Hey, it’s my conference!

Okay, okay!  If you’re still not sure what Mind Camp is all about, you might want to read up a bit on past events The first Mind Camp took place November 5th-6th, 2005, at the Riverfront Technical Park. You can read some feedback on the experience at Thoughts on Mind Camp 1.0, or take a look at the Press Blog Coverage.

We transcribed part of the original Session Board here.

Tags and photos from 1.0:
* Technorati tag search: mindcamp1.0
* Veo’s MindCamp 2005 Flickr
* Flickr: Photos tagged with Mindcamp1.0

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‘‘If you have a question, comment, or require a clarification on anything stated here, feel free to email our wiki admin, Justin Martenstein or Stuart Maxwell.’‘