Fandom Camp
The Business of Expressive Entertainment
Event details
When: March 20, March 21, 2009
Where: Illinois Institute of Technology, McCormick Tribune Campus Center
About
Fandom Camp is designed to unite the community of fannish creatives in Chicago (and beyond!): the fanboys, fangurls, writers, artists, web designers, archivists, historians, larpers, cyberpunks, furries...
Fandom Camp is a barcamp so whoever shows up to determines what gets presented. General ideas on topics of interest should be focused on the web, social media, on-line activities, computers, gaming, mobile phones, vidding, writing, or going professional as they pertain to entertainment or fandom. It is about the back end of fandom and the entertainment community, and the support structures that go into being a fan.
Fandom Camp 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, music or speculative fiction fan communities. The topics are should be geared around the business side of fandom and the processes supporting fan-centered online communities.
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; and
- sessions on issues and trends in fandom.
Sponsors
If you are interested in sponsoring Fandom Camp, please contact Mark Smithivas. He is handling sponsors. We are looking for sponsors to help cover food costs and name tags. Please see our Sponsorship page.
Schedule
Day 1: 9:00am to 5pm
Day 1: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
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 Fandom Camp. Both half-hour and hour-long blocks are available for sign-up, depending on how much time you expect your presentation to need.
Friday
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| 12:00 to 12:25 PM |
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Official & unofficial fansites: issues in hosting, legalities, and working with both
the primary/commercial sources of your fandom and fandom itself, sockii (sockii@earthlink.net)*
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| 3:00 to 3:25 PM |
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* I am flexible on the scheduling of this session as I will be available all day, both days. - sockii
Friday
5:30PM to 7:30PM
There will be a general fandom meet up at a bar in the area to be determined. Groups planning to meet at this general meetup include Police fans and former FanLib members.
Saturday
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| 9:00 to 9:25 AM |
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Fandom Blogging, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the blog, Gordon Dymowski (gordon.dymowski@gmail.com), |
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So you want to be a huckster: vending at conventions, for both fun and profit, sockii (sockii@earthlink.net)*
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| 11:30 to 11:55 AM |
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| 12:00 to 12:25 PM |
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Next to You: a preview of a documentary about the fans of the rock band The Police with a Q&A with filmmakers Eugene Ramos (eramos812@yahoo.com) and Mark Hermano |
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Getting readers for your fan fiction, Laura Hale |
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* I am flexible on the scheduling of this session as I will be available all day, both days. - sockii
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.
Demo Space
Fandom Camp will have a room set aside for people to demo entertainment related start ups, fansites, games and technology. If you are interested, please sign up below on the date you wish to demo. You do not need to demo the whole time. There is wireless available.
Day 1: 9:00am to 5pm
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Planners
Participants (aka Campers)
You can also sign up on our FaceBook event page!
Planning
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