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.
EqualityCamp will begin to plan MarriageEquality2.0 so that all Californians and Americans and their families- including the gay people-are equal under the law.
Goals: An inclusive, inspiring, integrated (web and on-the-ground) movment with a clear central place online and feedback loop to empower a grassroots movement that integrates with any formal campaign.
14th Amendment: "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
Event details
When
Saturday, January 3, 2009 (Macworld is Jan 5-9, so people can come in early)
Where
Citizen Space, #300, 425 - 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Where to stay?
If you are in from out of town, the closest hotel is the Courtyard Marriott, but there are oodles of places nearby.
(fyi, Marriot is Mormon owned.)
To support a local social justice minded business that supports equality for all with style: jdvhospitality.com
Sponsors
Anyone? Anyone?
This may be hard right now but we can probably line up some in-kind sponsors ... should identify specific categories of needs and then target people for each.
cupcakes and snacks - citizen cake (heather gold to talk with elizabeth)
wine - CAV (Pamela is a very good friend of mine, I'll talk with her {Cathy Brooks})
Thoughts????
Not really a sponsor but would suggest we use Seesmic throughout the day as we can bring in commentary and participation from people outside of the Bay Area who want to take part ... We can feature the conversation on the site as well ...
Schedule
Day 1
Proposed Sessions
- Kicking some Digital Ass(ets): Effective ways to use some powerful tools (will focus on video and some text-based) {Cathy Brooks}
- Marriage Equality - not a GAY issue: Avoiding stridency and reaching out to non-gay supporters {Cathy Brooks}
- How we are gay the way Obama is black: being comfortable in your own skin, gay or otherwise, {Heather Gold}
- Netroots organizing techniques {Adina Levin}
- Connections between netroots organizing and other community organizing
- Obama's secret sauce, social networking & voter file tools {Dan Ancona}
Topics I would like to hear about
- add a topic...
- cross-cultural outreach
- creating a centralized place of authority online for the issue
- right to privacy amendment
- people from the Obama web strategy team and how they integrated with the on-the-ground campaign
- how all the Net groups can communicate
- how to create a central web location that will work for everyone, including the grassroots web, grassroots on-the-ground and the No on 8 campaign and its members (HRC, NCLR etc)
Planners
- TaraHunt
- Cathy Brooks
- HeatherGold
- Adina Levin
- Hillary Hartley
- add yourself...
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
Task List
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
WifiProjector, White Boards (Dan Ancona: looks like you've got this but I could scare up a spare projector)- Photo (CB - reached out to Brian Solis to see if he would. He's checking to see if he's back from holiday vacation yet. If he is, he will do for us!)
- Video (CB working on this)
- Audio
- Streaming or Stickam or Skype (CB working on this) (All you really need is Ustream, a decent computer and internet connection. - Brian Leubitz)
- music for dance breaks (Dan Ancona: I could dj. Have a listen to a couple sets here).
Non-tech
Breakfast - Coffee/pastries Donated by Citizen Agency- Lunch
- Coffee/Tea
- Tables and chairs \
websites, groups and people to invite
MarriageEquality USA
Gavin Newsom
Mark Leno
Tom Ammiano
Board of Supervisors
Arianna Huffington (Cathy will reach out to her today)
David Plouffe
Joe Trippi
Courage Campaign
Calitics.com - I'll do a shout out on Calitics if so desired by the group - Brian Leubitz
Stop8.org
Jointheimpact.com
Overturnprop8.com
twitter.com/NoonProp8 (Moya Watson, volunteer with No on 8 Campaign , invited)
- @moyalynne - http://moyawatson.com/Mormonsformarriage
http://www.marriageforward.com
Admins of all FaceBook groups (also compose Wall post for each)
All petition organizers
MoveOn
Obama organizers, strategists and web team (WWOD?) (Ask Leonard Lim for who to contact - Hillary to reach out directly)
Personal Democracy Forum - Micah Sifry - (Tara to reach out)
bloggersagainst8
Pam's House Blend / Pam Spaulding
8against8.com
8asians.com
NCLR - Calla Devlin and/or Kate? (Cathy will reach out today)
No on 8 - Chris Maliwat
EQCA - Shumway already said he would come (invite Geoff) - (Cathy will reach out today)
HRC - Elizabeth Birch
Other "carbon-based" organizations supporting the movement (aka "old school" organizations that existed off line first <g>).
United Healthcare Workers - Paul Kumar - Eden will handle
Ev & Sara Williams - Cathy B. will invite
Tantek Celik - Heather Gold will invite
David Sifry - Cathy Brooks will invite
David Hornik - Cathy Brooks will invite
Chris Iglesias - exec director of SF HRC
Former Senate President Pro tem Don Perata
Kip Williams - online organizer doing civil disobedience actions
OTHER CITIES FOR EQUALITYCAMP (california) (Work with Courage Campaign?)
Long Beach
Los Angeles (multiple) -- Jackie Peters?
San Diego
San Francisco (done)
Sacramento
THEMES/SUBTITLES:
Voice
Diversity
58 County Strategy
Integrating
Lubricating
Hooking up
Connecting
Mobilizing
peole power
grassroots
netroots
starfish/spider
more effective
make it work
obamafy
gaybama
campaign 2.0
marriage equality movement
empowerment/empowering
from communication to action
from streets to strategy
awe to action
Campaign 2.0: Cross pollinating the marriage equality movement
Lubricating the marriage equality movement
"What does marriage equality look like? ... A long time coming ..."
Obamafication: Love your flawed allies
EQUALITY CAMP PLANNING STUFF
1. Planning stuff
A. Food
B. Sponsors
C. Goals
D. After party
TECHNORATI TAGS
Tags for flickr, delicious ma.gnolia, technorati etc...
Please use the tag (#EqualityCamp) for content related to this event
TO DO LIST:
- Web site - EqualityCamp.com secured, Heather to handle hosting, setting up Wordpress with WooTheme and Buddy Press for community aspect.
- Registration - Fee of $20/person ... $5/under-employed or student (get a t-shirt with that? who do t-shirts- RightSleeve.com??)
- If find additional sponsorship - bonus
- Gather the list of people to invite - collective effort everyone post suggestions on wiki - must include name, and contact info.
