Camp Fandom 2.0
Event details
When: March 21, March 22, 2009
Where: Illinois Institute of Technology, McCormick Tribune Campus Center
About
Camp Fandom 2.0 is for fans, fan fiction writers, fan vidders, fan website maintainers, entertainment companies, convention dealers, convention runners, gamers, bloggers, professional authors, new media artists, fan artists, or people who have some investment in movie, television, or speculative fiction fan communities. The topics are should be geared around the web, social media, on-line activities, computers, gaming, or mobile phones as they pertain to that topic. Camp Fandom 2.0 is about the back end of fandom, the support structures that go into being a fan.
Focus
- finding volunteers/employees to help with fandom sites, projects, conventions, startups and businesses;
- networking with other startups/businesses operating in fanspace, fandom wikis, fandom communities, fansite maintainers, fandom based projects, dealers at conventions;
- demo sessions for new fansites, business, video games, startups in fanspaces, entertainment or of interest to fans;
- sessions on special issues that people running on-line sites such as fandom specific wikis, directories, fan fiction archives, review sites, dating services have to deal with;
- sessions about applying the lessons of web 2.0 such as SEO and utilizing social bookmarking sites to fandom activity;
- sessions for fans who have gone professional with their writing, art, music, fansites and special issues that they have;
- sessions on financial, legal, programming/coding, marketing, social aspects that people in fandom have to deal with;
- sessions on issues and trends in fandom; and
- creating a fandom oriented business over the weekend.
Sponsors
If you are interested in sponsoring Camp Fandom 2.0, please contact Mark Smithivas. He is handling sponsors. We are looking for sponsors to help cover food costs and name tags.
Schedule
Day 1: 9:00am to 5pm
Day 2: 9:00am to 5pm
Day 2: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Proposed Sessions
BarCamps are presentations where attendees get to decide what they want to present because anyone who attends can present or lead a conversation! If you are interested in presenting, you can sign up on the grid. If you don't know if you will attend or want to present, you can still sign up when you get to Camp Fandom 2.0. While we are listing an hour for each slot, you don't need to take up the whole time. We've gone with an hour because a half hour feels too short and we don't want to cut off interesting conversations.
Friday
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Saturday
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There will be space for gathering and talking beyond presentations where people can gather and talk. If you are interested in colocating your fandom gathering at this event, please feel free.
Saturday
5:30PM to 7:30PM
There will be a fandom tweet up after Saturday's presentations at a location to be determined.
Planners
- Laura Hale, laura@fanhistory.com, purplepopple
- Mark Smithivas, campfandom@1god.otherinbox.com 1god
Participants (aka Campers)
You can also sign up on our FaceBook event page!
Planning
Camp-Fandom-20-Planning
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag campfan
