Conversations about online social networking for high school students, parents, teachers and administrators, web industry people and researchers.

Date to be confirmed. Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. Venue to be confirmed.

Online social networking is a significant activity in New Zealand, especially among people of high school age. Concerns about safety and privacy abound, as do horror stories and attempts to curb young people's access to it. What is actually happening in online social networking sites? What are the dangers, and what are the opportunities? Could the lack of dialogue about this be more dangerous than online social networking itself? Let's engage creatively in conversations about this.

Participants

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• Dan Randow, Online Groups Wrangler, Christchurch.
• Bevan, Drupal geek, CivicActions engineer
• Seth Wagoner, Geek in Chief, Interclue
• Marek Kuziel, Django, Drupal & PHP code monkey and OpenID dude, Encode
• Mike Riversdale, Enterprise 2.0, living e-life online and connected to the max

Organisers

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• Dan Randow
• Bevan (I'd like to help)

Sponsorship

Goal: get sponsorship to bring high school students in from around the country.

To Do List

• Confirm venue.
• Spread the word: set up a FaceBook event, promote in Bebo and MySpace.
• Invite people from the International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking.
• Get volunteers.
• Get sponsorship.
• Organise tee shirts!

Online Group

Discuss this in the BarCampChristchurchSocialNetworking online group.