Welcome to eDemocracyCamp 2!

See eDemocracyCamp for details about the 2008 event.

Event details

A number of people have expressed interest in doing another eDemocracyCamp. Details are still sketchy (as of January 5, 2008), but please get involved if you want to make it happen.

• When: Saturday April 4 and/or Sunday, April 5 (the weekend prior to Politics Online Conference '09, which will be held April 8-9 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC)
• Where: potentially same venue as POLC '09 (not confirmed), Washington, DC (USA)
• Cost: Free to attend

Get involved

• Sign up on the wiki: Sign up below if you're interested...
• Join the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/edemocracycamp/
• Chat via IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#barcamp (we're using the general barcamp channel for now)
• Follow eDemocracyCamp on Twitter: http://twitter.com/edemocracycamp
• Join the eDemocracyCamp Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/563620@N20/

Potential attendees (a.k.a. Campers)

I'm interested...

1. Lucas Cioffi, DeepDebate.Org
2. Tim Bonnemann, Founder and CEO, Intellitics, Inc., @planspark
3. Wayne Moses Burke, Open Forum Foundation
4. Susanna Haas Lyons, AmericaSpeaks
5. Shannon Simmons, Center for Information Policy and E-Government
6. Shaun Dakin, The National Political Do Not Contact Registry, Follow Me On Twitter, Friend me on Facebook
7. J.H. Snider, iSolon.org
8. Lou Klepner, GatewayToGov.org
9. Chris Messina, @factoryjoe
10. Andrew Hoppin, @ahoppin
11. Kristin Wolff, kwolff@thinkers-and-doers.com, @kristinwolff
12. Andrew Turner, @ajturner, GeoCommons
13. David James, @djwonk
14. Justin Grimes, Center for Information Policy and E-Government, @justgrimes
15. Hillary Hartley, NIC Inc, @quepol
16. Gabriela Schneider, @stereogab, Sunlight Foundation
17. Avelino Maestas, @avelino, Congresspedia & OpenCongress
18. Silona Bonewald, @silona, @lotv, LeagueofTechVoters.org, TransparentFederalBudget.Com, change.wikia.com

Tagging (for Flickr, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, Technorati etc.)

Please use the tag edemocracycamp2 for content related to this event.

Related *camps

• TechnoPolitics, December 2006 in San Francisco, CA (USA)
• CitizenCamp, March 2007 in Rome (Italy)
• Demcamp, June 17, 2007 in Arezzo (Italy)
• BarCampWellingtonNZegov, September 2007 in Wellington (New Zealand)
• Participation 2.0, November 15-17 in Salzburg (Austria)
• eGovDevCamp, December 2007 in Washington DC (USA) (did not happen yet, postponed)
• BarcampUKGovweb, January 27-28, 2008 in London (United Kingdom)
• EGovBarCamp, February 2, 2008 in Cambridge, MA (USA)
• PolitCamp Graz, Spring 2008 in Graz (Austria)
• eDemocracyCamp, March 2, 2008 in Washington DC (USA)

Related initiatives & communities

• Open Government Working Group -- http://www.opengovdata.org/
• E-democracy group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5525119403

FAQ

• What is a barcamp? BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. For more, read this article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp