WHERE CAMP EU… the geo unconference for Europe

Seems like people enjoyed the unconference format of WhereCamp.EU:

“This sort of system would bring many academics out into a cold sweat as there is no formal way of ensuring quality presentations and sessions. I didn’t attend a single bad session though” - James Cheshire

“The voice of the individual often drowned out by corporate messaging at traditional conferences is prominent at events likes wherecamp EU, and it is a real step forward to see such events taking their place alongside more traditional industry shows now in Europe” – Ed Parsons

“My geobatteries were recharged at the end of the day and it prompted several thoughts about the conventional approach to running a conference” – Steven Feldman

“…really well organised, with great venues and food, and all that at zero cost thanks to very generous sponsors and a great bunch of volunteers!” – Patrick Weber

Thanks for all the great feedback on the tweets and blogs. If you are blogging about WhereCamp.EU, there’s a section at the bottom of the wiki page to list yourself.

We had another hugely successful day of geounconferencing yesterday at the Guardian offices, thanks mainly to you and your enthusiastic participation. There was even a surprising amount of enthusiasm for continuing the event in the pub afterwards!

So that makes two action-packed days of spatially-location-based-maptastic sessions:

We hope you found inspirational educational conversational value in the sessions you picked to attend (or the ones you ran!), but what about all the ones you missed? Let’s use the wiki to write up some descriptions of each of the sessions including contact details for the presenters, and links to any slides and other related resources. Dive in there and create the pages (green links are empty pages)   Obviously if you ran the session, this a great way to provide more information. But its a wiki! Feel free to kick off some description even if you weren’t running a session. We can add to it later:

>> WhereCamp.EU wiki <<

Wow that’s a lot of sessions! (took me over an hour just type all the session titles)

In addition to that there will of course be some continuing chatter on twitter (#wherecampeu) and tagged photos on flickr, slides on slideshare, etc  Tag your stuff with ‘wherecampeu’!

Despite the raucous geo-beer session last night….

Day 2 of Where Camp EU is in full swing, hosted by our generous sponsors the Guardian in their plush offices in Kings Cross.

What a fantastic day! The WallaceSpace venue was just right for an unconference event, and all you geo-people did us proud by presenting, discussing, networking, questioning, debating, and generally participating, just like we knew you would.

So much to digest and report back on! Please tag your photos, videos, etc with ‘wherecampeu’ and tweet with #wherecampeu.

The geo-fun continues tonight with geo-beers at Smithys from 7p.m. (smithyslondon.com, map )

WhereCamp EU is almost upon us but before you head out to meet us all at wallacespace on Friday, here’s a handy checklist of things to bring with you.

• Don’t forget your dongle; wifi connectivity at wallacespace will be limited so we’ll be looking to you all to supplement this with 3G dongles and ask you not to hog the connection by using your wifi enabled smartphone and your laptop at the same time.

• Don’t forget your laptop; while we’ll be providing projectors and screens you’ll need your own laptop and VGA adaptor when presenting (and you are presenting aren’t you?)

• Don’t forget your laptop power brick; we’ll be providing power strips for you to plug your laptop in for a recharge but we can’t provide power bricks in all their varying shapes and sizes.

• Don’t forget to cancel; if you’re not able to come along that is. You can let us know on the EventBrite site for WhereCamp EU.

• Don’t forget to turn up; WhereCamp EU’s an unconference and it’ll be nothing without you being there.

A proper Where Campers lunch, Indian street food provided by Soho based start-up Mooli’s.  What a treat.

Last week Bing were at TED, this week they are coming to, AND sponsoring WhereCampEU.

cheers Bing!

Did you know that TED is $6,000 a ticket and WhereCampEU is FREE.  Add yourself to the waiting list if you missed out on a FREE ticket http://wherecampeu.eventbrite.com/