What is CityCampSF?
CityCampSF is an unconference focused on innovation for San Francisco Bay Area governments and neighborhood organizations (read more about CityCamp). It takes place Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at CitizenSpace, 425 Second St., Suite 100, SF.
Cool, where do I sign up?
RSVP: http://citycampsf.eventbrite.com
How do I stay in the loop?
Budget and sponsors
We're looking at a budget of about $3,000 for 125 attendees (will include donuts, coffee, lunch, yet more coffee). Looks like we're almost there yet:
1) Confirmed sponsorships
$500 Sunlight Foundation (via Kevin Curry)
$500 GovLoop (via Kevin Curry)
$250 E-democracy.org (via Ryan Wold)
total: $1,250
2) Awaiting confirmation
$250 Simpler Systems (via Ryan Wold)
$500 Microsoft (via Adriel Hampton)
$250 Granicus (via Tim Bonnemann
total: $1,000
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please list your name here. In exchange for sponsorship, sponsors get:
- listed on all web stuff (Eventbrite, citycampsf blog, wiki etc.)
- mentioned in promotional communications
- included on signage at the venue (may be small and hand-made in our case)
- the opportunity to bring hand-outs, swag etc.
- probably a whole lot of Twitter etc. love
Thanks for your support!
What's the agenda?
The agenda will emerge from the participants the day of the event (that's the beauty about these events). Here's a few likely topics:
- Transparency
- Open government ddata
- Open Government
- Gov 2.0
- Public engagement
- Citizen apps
- Possible themes/tracks: transportation, environment
Who's blogging?
Write about CityCampSF? List it here:
To do...
With less than two months to go there's plenty of work to do. We're always looking for collaborators. Get in touch if you can help!
- Plan social event (e.g. party/tweetup Saturday night?)
- Create budget
- Plan documentation (let's try to capture as much as we can of what comes out of CityCampSF)
- Plan food and drinks
- Identify volunteer opportunities
- Recruit volunteers
- Identify and contact potential sponsors
- Identify "bank" (reaching out to Code for America)
- Finalize sponsoring rules (e.g. upper limit for cash contributions, barcamp style)
- Plan media outreach (do we want the press to be there? help us get the word out?)
- Wifi
- Cooper cooper@wordspicturesideas.com will organize
- Using Meraki WiFi mesh
- Once some more details are confirmed, Cooper will apply here http://meraki.com/free_event_wifi/
- Still needed: backhaul - one or more high-speed connections from the local WiFi mesh to the Internet (hopefully these will be available at the venue - if not, we'll need a few 3G connections, or a long-distance wireless link to some nearby high speed connection)
- The little things
- Signage
- Name tags
- Session wall
- Large sticky notes
- Paper and markers
- Clean-up gear
- Nooks, sofas, and meeting spots to foster conversations
- Electrical outlets
- Your action item goes here...
