Purpose

"A gathering of the global tribe"

 To create a physical and virtual event forum for sharing and documenting the experiences, lessons and practices

of CityCamp organizers & alumni, local policy makers, local Gov 2.0 & open government practitioners around the globe

Where

Chicago, Illinois, USA

When (TBD)

• 2nd week/weekend in January 2012
• November or December 2011 

Ideas

Highly virtualized

• Globally shared events (Ignites? Hack-a-thons)
• Streaming
• Tele-presence centers 

Stimulate

• Presentation, collage of all camps
• Action-Outcome presentations from Camps (lightning talks? Ignites?)
• Keynote from city CTO

Participate/Collaborate 

• Unconference 
• Hack-a-thon(s)
• Code
• Process 
• Policy
• Contest 

Agenda & Topic Suggestions

• Caretakers 
• Articles of Organization?
• Board of Directors?
• De facto committee by mutual agreement? 
• Organizers Breakout
• International Breakout 
• Chicago Breakout
• Data Journalism in the City 
• Emergency & Non-Emergency Communications (911, 311, 511, 211) 
• GIS & Mapping 2.0
• Open Planning
• Local & Neighborhood Issues Forums
• State of the City Stack
• Hammering out Policy & Guidance 
• Local Civics in the Classroom 
• Literacy: any way you want to look at it we need more of it
• New Frontiers of Open Data: School data, Tax data, _______ data

Planning Needs 

• Facilities (auditorium, unconference, co-working)
• Fundraising
• Catering
• Branding 
• Marketing
• PR 
• Hack-a-thon
• Contest 
• Scholarships
• Printing
• Internet 
• Registration 
• Accounting