I'm involved - both in the genesis and co-facilitating - this very
cool Open Space conference on wiki and community that's coming to the
San Francisco Bay Area for the first time. Although it's organized by
the geek community, one thing that makes RecentChangesCamp special is
how much we welcome and engage folks who may not be geeks, but are
active in community, activism, collaboration, bottom-up organizing,
and other offline activities that share the spirit of the wiki way. Of
course it helps if they're curious about what's alive in the tech
world and how it can serve them and their work/play.

It is free to attend, thanks to the gifts of our generous sponsors
(and the inexpensive nature of the event).

If *you* are interested, please come! I'll be demoing Wagn, including
all the latest features of templating, Pointers and WQL.

If you know others who might be interested, please pass this on to them...

Life,
John

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May 9-11, 2008 in Palo Alto, California

See <http://rcc2008.blueoxen.net/attendees> to sign up.

RecentChangesCamp was born from the intersection of wiki and OpenSpace
(a very bottom-up way of organizing gatherings, see
<http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-Openspace.html> and
<http://www.openspaceworld.org/>). A lot of cool people into wiki,
community and collaboration will be there - what do you want to talk
with them about? Every participant is invited to lead their own
sessions; the guideline is to take responsibility for what you love.
In addition to general and technical conversations about - and actual
coding on - wikis and other software, session topics from past RCCs
have covered subjects from art to social organizing to philanthropy,
playing a creative conversation game, and individual & group coding
practices. See the past conference wikis for more complete lists and
session notes.

Anyone and everyone is invited to attend. You will especially enjoy
Recent Changes Camp, if you happen to be any of the the following:

* Member of any open wiki community or someone who uses wikis at
work, school or in any other context
* Interested in community, action, collaboration, creativity or any other
activity in which the self-organizing power of wiki might be helpful
* Interested in the OpenCulture and/or OpenTechnology movements
* Interested in knowledge creation and sharing knowledge
* A generally curious and inquisitive person

===History===

The first RecentChangesCamp was organized after a WikiVanning trip
from Seattle to San Diego to attend the first WikiSym, at the end of
2005. When we got into the van, we didn't all know each other, and
only a few of us were into OpenSpace. We held numerous OpenSpace
sessions in the van (sessions were 'announced' on post-it notes on the
dashboard), and by the time we got out of the van in San Diego we were
all good friends, and all so into OpenSpace that we did our best to
bring it to WikiSym. They were intrigued and somewhat open to it (and
have incorporated it into WikiSyms since then), but we wanted more!
Finally, WardCunningham, in true wiki - and OpenSpace - spirit,
suggested that if we wanted an OpenSpace conference on wiki, we should
just organize one ourselves.

So we did.

Nearly 150 people came from all across North America to Portland,
Oregon in February, 2006. In three days, we self-organized more than
70 working sessions to address our most important questions about wiki
technology and community action (you can also see a video made at this
RCC here: <http://www.ouroldhouse.com/geri/RecentChanges.mov> ). This
gathering happened again in Portland in February, 2007. In May 2007,
200 people from North America and Europe met in Montreal for the
RoCoCo Conference to continue the series.
<http://recentchangescamp.org/> links to the wiki for each conference.
Now for the first time, it comes to SiliconValley…