Announcing BarCampWashDC, to be held April 4, beginning immediately after close of F2C (5:00pm) in Silver Spring MD at Mi Rancho (walking distance see map here)
BarCampWashDC continues on April 5, beginning at 9:00 AM in the conference room of
Bingham_McCutchen, Jefferson Court Building, 1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, Washington, DC 20007
- Enter courtyard from 31st and K Streets and look for East Lobby. The conference room is on 6th floor. If lost or need directions leave message at 202.250.3838.
You are welcome to show up even if you were unable to make the preceeding evening's festivities.
If you're planning to come, please add your name to the BarCampWashDCAttendees page.
Our host will be Andy Lipman, Practice Leader, Telecommunications, Media and Technology.
The conference room will have room for up to 45 people, tables, chairs, whiteboards and Wi-Fi.
Contact Daniel Berninger, dan@tier1research.com, 202.250.3838, if you have questions regarding form, format, topics, logistics.
If you have an idea for the agenda, plan to attend the evening session April 4th or arrive early on April 5th.
For more on the "camp" approach - search on "foo camp", "mashup camp", or "bar camp"
BarCampWashDC immediately follows F2C: Freedom to Connect. You're welcome at BarCampWashDC whether you attended F2C or not. Cost of BarCamp WashDC will be approximately $0.00 -- there may be a pool for lunch or something.
Here's what happened at BarCampWashDC:
- Started a wiki resource page, netneutrality.pbwiki.com, to explain the issues, collect comments on bills and amendments from the tech community, start a database of emails to use to rally the population, generate ideas for protests, track articles, etc. -- Please contribute your Ideas! Password is F2C--
- Discussed issues relevant to Net Neutrality, including the idea that while it works for Congress, it's not a great motto to use to rally the troops
- Listened to House of Representatives hearings about COPA, or "Barton's bill", on Wednesday afternoon 4/5.
