Un-Conference+Ideas

Why do you want to do an 'unconference'?

 * explore new model for people to physically meet but not just sit around and listen to presentations
 * to strengthen the emerging network through f2f ties
 * to come away with specific deliverables from the sessions, be they personal learning or committments, group agreements, declarations, plans

Scenario 4: (or 3b?) Online Symposium out of which grows a f2f gathering
===Scenario 5 - actually ask the list of people below "if you were able to physically get together, what would you want it to be about" and let the community of participants decide (organize by who first, what second)===

What exactly is an 'unconference' - things we'd like to change with conferences or innovations we'd like to adopt)

 * absence of powerpoint presentations and talking heads!!!
 * incorporate as many '2.0' ideas/practices as possible
 * everything is recorded and made available as soon after it is done
 * participants are the recorders - aggregate!
 * podcasts
 * synchronous broadcast/back channels for any 'talk'
 * pre and post conference community building via social software
 * http://www.elearning2006.fi/main.site?action=siteupdate/view&id=21
 * have some 'point' to the unconference (walk away with.... a stronger change network...[|a manifesto]...a committment to particular change, projects....)
 * open space session? http://www.openspacecanada.org/osharrison.htm
 * cf. recent blogs.ac.uk uncofnerence for ideas (http://incsub.org/edublog/?page_id=9) - after keynotes, split into working groups of max 14 people, had to produce a 'paper'
 * http://informl.com/apply/faq.htm

Who would you like to be there?
SWL's list (mixture of edubloggers, change agents, and elder agitators who can help share org change strategies and tactics) [|Downes], [|Siemens], [|Levine], [|Alexander], [|Campbell], [|Stuart Yeates], [|Wilson], [|Farmer], [|Morrison], [|Ganley], [|Fraser], [|Yee], [|Wiley], [|Arvan], [|Blackwell], [|Lamb], [|Norman]

Another suggestion - combine the opml lists of a number of co-agitators and see what the interesection is. Invite those people.

cf. Rule 1 of 'Open Spaces' - whoever is there are the right people

When would we like to do this?

 * around (or in conjunction with?) Northern Voices? mid-February 2007
 * early spring 2007? March? April?
 * late Spring-Summer 2007 (April, May, June)?

Where would we like to do this?

 * Vancouver?
 * Robson Square
 * SFU Harbour Centre
 * Victoria?
 * outside of Vancouver
 * Whistler?
 * Bowen Island?
 * Outside of BC/Canada (harder for me SWL to get permission to help organize/fund)

What do we need to make it happen?

 * Sponsors
 * location
 * organizer?