About TransitCampBayArea

TransitCampBayArea is a barcamp about improving transportation in the Bay Area.

Transit Camp Bay Area is inspired by the first TransitCamp in Toronto: http://www.transitcamp.org

From their website:

What is Toronto Transit Camp?

Come ready to share, contribute and collaborate! Transit Camp is inspired by BarCamp. Bar Camp events are powered by participation. The event will be well-documented in the form of blog posts, wiki content, photos, and video for everyone who is unable to attend. ...

We will hold simultaneous small-group sessions on a self-organized basis around topics of interest to the community: redesigning the TTC's website, creating and selling user-generated media and articles (music, buttons, t-shirts), photography, illustration and music inspired by the TTC.

This celebration and workshop-oriented event is intended to inspire a fresh approach at the TTC in how it serves users and engages with community in order to achieve its organizational goals.

Goals

• Motivate capable people who love to not drive
• Make it easier to use alternatives (to cars)
• Help great citizen/government/corporate partnerships emerge in the Bay Area

Event details

• When: February 23-24, 2008
• Where: Socialtext, 655 High Street, Palo Alto, CA

Get involved

• Sign up below
• Help promote the event on Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/297295/
• Bring people to the wiki: http://barcamp.org/TransitCampBayArea
• Join the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/transitcampbayarea

Organizing team

Sign up to help out on our Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/transitcampbayarea then put your name below:

• TaraHunt
• ChrisMessina
• AdinaLevin
• TimBonnemann
• Dave Guerrieri (GaryAir Air Taxi, InformArt Corp)

Attendees

Riders

1. Steve Rhodes
2. DaveChiu (depends on the final dates, but I'm interested)
3. Add your name here...

Transit & city officials

E.g. BART, MUNI, CalTrain, City of Menlo Park, City of San Francisco, etc.

1. Name + affiliation
2. Name + affiliation
3. Add your name and affiliation here...

Transit sites

E.g. transit.511.org, IAMCALTRAIN, etc...

1. JoeHughes (Google Transit, Headway)
2. Add your name and site here...

Resources

List of interesting material...

Stakeholder map

List of people and/or organization that should be part of TransitCampBayArea (may change based on desired outcomes, agenda, goals, message etc. of this event)...

• Companies
  • Google Transit
• Public transit agencies
  • List specific departments here
• Citizen Advisory Groups
• Transportation technology companies
  • NextBus
• SPUR
• Universities
  • UC Berkeley: (department of) city planning and transportation planning
  • San Francisco State: Urban Studies
  • San Jose State: Urban planning and transportation planning
• Bay Area bike people
  • SF Bike Coalition
• Traffic authorities
  • VTA
  • 511.org
  • MTC
  • BART
  • MUNI
  • CalTrain
  • AmTrak
  • SFO
  • SJC
  • OAK
• Government
  • City of San Francisco
  • City of San Jose
  • City of Oakland
  • counties
  • members California Congress
  • members US Congress

Press and PR

People and organisations who might help with getting the word out...

• Rachel Gordon, SF Chronicle.
• sfcityscape.com
• Gossipy SFist

Financial support

List of potential sponsors...

• Craigslist Foundation