The CookCamp un-conference will focus on food and health, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds (health, technology, design, food, cooking, and more) to share, create, and learn from one another over the course of a day.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
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. CookCamp will focus on the role that food plays in our lives and our health, and enable collaboration between various fields, such as health, technology, and design, to produce unique and innovative solutions.
Some of the important questions we hope to cover: What does this future require? What are some of the problems we currently face? How can we replace the "Garbage" in "Garbage In, Garbage Out" with a new standard of awesomely tasty food that's good for us? How can we have fun with this?
A little history: 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 (political, social, geographical, ethical). But we will have some healthy food on hand.
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
- Abe Burmeister blog
- Chris Messina
- Tara Hunt
Regrets
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?
- The geography (and geopolitics) of food.
- Ways to account for the time lag between cause (food, exercise) and effect (health). How can we help people better understand the connections between what they put into their systems and the positive or negative effects they produce?
- How do you select the accurate information from the mass of data that’s out there? As experts it may be easier to separate fact from fiction, but consumers are constantly presented with massive amounts of conflicting information, with little basis for separating fact from fiction.
Info for Presenters
Needs
Please note in your participant/planner entry if you can help with any of this. Are we missing anything?
- Infrastructure deities for setting up wifi and mutimedia gear.
- Previous barcamp participants, planners, and aficionados 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
- More session ideas!
- Interested sponsors
- CookCamp T-shirts or Apron designs!
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
- CookCampSponsors -- sponsors who made the whole weekend free of charge
Bring
- Sleeping Bag + Pillow (if you wish to camp, and depending on the venue)
- Computerness
- Healthful Cookingness
- Ideas and demos.
- Foods or ingredients? TBD
- Healthful Recipies
- If you have schwag you want to share, this is probably a good place
- CookCampFoodStuffs, CookCampDrinkStuffs, CookCampGearStuffs
Discussion and Questions Asked So Far
See CookCampDiscussion
Contact The CookCamp Planners
- Email cookcamp2007 ---at- yahoo --dot- com
Who's talking about us?
Add more blogs here...
To Do:
The following sections are holding areas for things to keep track of for now
Once we have more information...
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[http://maps....] CookCamp area street map
Once the event is under way
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To do after the event:
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