CookCamp is an un-conference where we will bring together people from diverse backgrounds (health, technology, design, food, cooking, and more), mix them together over the course of one or more days, and share and learn from one another.
CookCamp arose from some discussions during HealthCamp that focused on prevention and behavior change. For this CookCamp we will focus less on food preparation (at least at the venue) and more on the issues surrounding food and cooking. But we will be having healthy food to eat, hopefully, with a food prep demo or two.
Check out the Session Ideas below and add some of your own!
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2007
Venue: TBD, in the San Francisco Bay Area (We are still working on this. If you know of a great place, please do let us know)
CookCamp is free and open.
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Who
Planners -- people who will make it happen - in random order
Participants = Cookcampers = people who will make it happen
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- Dave Chiu homepage, blog
- Ray Seddigh
- Ann Haiden drAnnHaiden
- Sissie Hsiao
Folks who are interested (but not sure yet if they'll make it)
- Tracy Ruggles blog
- Tim Bonnemann Blog
Regrets
What else do we need? Please note in your participant/planner entry if you can help with any of this.
- Infrastructure deities for setting up wifi and mutimedia gear.
- Previous barcamp participants, planners, and afficianados to help in case non-tech participants or nubes have questions. And to help the event stay true to the original barcamp vision.
- More planners
- More participants
Session Ideas
What do you want to talk about, issues to cover, areas to innovate, etc.?
- Testing and health: how can we make it easier to find out about health issues? Can we do some testing on-site so people know what goes on? For example, things like gluten allergy (Celiac Disease)or other food allergies.
- What are some ways we can help people make better decisions in the supermarket?
- Social networking in support of health and nutrition
- Some of the science behind how food works in conjunction with our genes, enzymes, immune system, hormones and whatnot - and how the wrong nutrition can contribute to a variety of very common diseases and chronic health problems - or possibly even things like cancer.
- How we can use technology to make eating right easier. And how to use it to promote the nutritional dialog between health care providers and patients.
- Making sense of organic, pesticides, toxins and food borne bacteria, etc.
- What all the bacteria that live in the digestive system do with your food, and how they actually produce chemicals that can potentially contribute to health problems and symptoms.
- How we can get better food in our schools?
- Can we make time to get back into our kitchens?
Info for Presenters
Duration Suggestions:
How long should CookCamp run for? Should there be a Friday evening event? Add your thoughts and we'll make a decision on January 10.
Why
The phrase "Garbage In, Garbage Out" is just as applicable to the information we consume as it is to the food we consume. Taking a proactive approach to managing our health, instead of responding to health events as they arise, requires different strategies than those we employ today. What does this future require? What are some of the problems we currently face? How can we replace "Garbage In" with a new standard of awesomely tasty food that's good for us? How can we have fun with it?
When
The CookCampOpeningSession is Friday TBD at 7pm, where we introduce ourselves, after that, a CookCampSchedule will unfold. We start Saturday and Sunday at 10am. Breakfast around 9am. CookCampScheduleDetails.
Saturday evening party at TBD from 7-9.
Sunday Proposal: *CookCampCrawl*
Bring
Discussion and Questions Asked So Far
See CookCampDiscussion
Provided
We'll do our darndest to provide:
- Wiki, Wifi (NetworkConfiguration) and Power, PowerStrips
- Food and Drinks for overnighters. (There are many locations nearby where food and drinks can be had, as well)
- Tables, Chairs, Sofas, PoofChairs (could use more furniture!)
- Projector, White Boards
- Toilet paper, paper towels and trash bags
- RequestACookCampShirtOrApron
CookCampSchedule -- may be asking too much...
Should theoretically be room for some tents if that is wanted, sleeping bags may work just as well. Couches will hopefullybe available. Some overflow sleeping should be available near by in the worst case.
Now Playing!
Link to slides and misc and what's going on LIVE (at least, if folks maintain it!)
Live feed: Link TBD TODO
(*Adopt a CookCampCam program, please carry to useful and interesting locations)
- Dial into a conference bridge for the /bin/ room Phone Number TBD TODO - passcode "barcamp" (#2272267)
Add to CookCampPhotos
TBD to set up [http://photos25.flickr.com/....]
TODO
Photographers please consider licensing your images under (cc-by-2.0) so they may be eligible for upload to Wikimedia Commons and inclusion within the Wikipedia BAR Camp article. Non-commercial (cc-nc-foo) photos are inelegible.
Travel & Accommodations
[http://maps....] CookCamp area street map
Who's talking about us?
Wanna talk about us? Do it in style: SpreadCookCamp
List of blogs commenting on CookCamp:
CookCampBlogs
Blogs linking here
TODO :
CookCampRelevantLinks
CookCampPostMortem
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