So lets do an unconference as the same time as Supernova - across the street
So it seems that Kevin Werbach is happy with his speaker list and I’m not and it seems that many people agree with me.
So I say let’s just do our own conference, charge a total of zero dollars and zero cents and have it at the bar across the street from the Palace hotel - at the same time as Supernova.
Being a bar - we won’t start til noon, but our evening events will be allot more fun.
Most importantly - we’ll assemable a critical mass of young, compelling people who never get asked onto panels, who don’t work for large companies and who HAVEN’T been heard from - before.
I bet folks like Mary Hodder, Dave Winer and Steve Gillmor will attend. And all sorts of video bloggers, Open API advocates, mashup artists and even a few VCs.
Now we just gotta sign up the bar (folks will have to buy drinks) and we’ll let “sponsors” bring in food, AV equipment and the entire agenda will be ad hoc.
So come one, come all to the free, unconference. Pedigree not required.
UPDATE: Note to Susan Mernit - familiarity DOES breed contempt when its the same dam shit spewing from the same dam people - over and over again. I mean - come on! How many times do we need to hear about “the state of the blogosphere”?
April 7th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Sounds good — I’ll go to that.
April 7th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Count me in.
April 7th, 2006 at 9:58 am
in.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:08 am
edited to add: this adds a new dimension to the whole “BarCamp” meme, n’est pas?
April 7th, 2006 at 10:30 am
hell of a good idea marc. looking forward to it.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:49 am
sounds good to me! While I love all the people, I like to go to conferences to learn new things, meet NEW people, percolate new ideas. Plus, conferences which charge a high toll tend to miss new trends as the people most likely to be creative could never afford to go.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:54 am
I’m coming, but now even the “unconference” seems like the same old, same old.
I’ll be the quiet one in the corner.
April 7th, 2006 at 11:09 am
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April 7th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Sounds great. Probably be foggy out
so we won’t have to worry about the sun and the yardarm and all!
April 7th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
I think I fit the categories you described. I’ll definitely be there!
April 7th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
[…] Marc Canter wants to do an unconference at the same time as SuperNova, in SF. A common misperception is that unconferences are unstructured. Nothing could be further from the truth. Please read the FAQ, it takes all of ten minutes, and you’ll find out how different an experience it is. Each session has a discussion leader who is a benevolent dictator for 1 hour 15 minutes. The DL keeps the discussion moving, cuts off people who are repeating themselves, calls on people at the right moment. No lining up for mikes. The DL is like a reporter, and the people in the room are the sources. It can really work, but it requires everyone to be signed on to the structure. […]
April 7th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Brilliant. Intelligence-pretence+”social lubrication”=yum. Keep us updated– if this is really a go, I might be able to attend
April 7th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Marc Canter on Supernova
Marc has a big gripe about Supernova: [from Business as usual - on the conference front by Marc Canter] OK - I’m officially complaining now. The speaker’s list for Supernova has been officially sent out and guess what? Its all
April 7th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Who needs publicity when Marc Canter’s doing a unconference? I’ll come and depublicize the other event across the street…what’s it called?
April 7th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
I’ll probably stop by as well (and you are all welcome at MeshForum in May)…
April 7th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
I have no interest in spending $2500 to see the supernova people. There better things to use that money for. For example you could start a new company for that much money. It would buy a server for a year, get a logo, print some business cards, etc. Certainly a developer in “start up mode” would never see meaing or find traction in a conference conference. The who’s who doesn’t care.
April 7th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
I am so tired of the House of Shields - it is too narrow. Perhaps we could do it at Mike Arrington’s house in Atherton? Lets call it “Chandrasekhar Camp” (a white dwarf accumulates material from another star until it reaches its Chandrasekhar limit and undergoes a thermonuclear explosion resulting in a SuperNova). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit
The flickr tag will be: Chandrasekhar…
April 7th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
I’ll podcast all the fresh voices….
April 7th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
i’m in
and we are a block away (3rd & market) if you need a conference room or pipes
April 7th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I’m in too.
April 7th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Sign me up… had some interesting conversations yesterday about the power of “Open Space Technology” (a key tool of unconferences/BarCamps/BrainJams) at a FIC board meeting in Madison, WI.
April 8th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Placeholder event created on upcoming.org:
http://upcoming.org/event/69282/
April 8th, 2006 at 6:43 am
As the army teaches when you’re wrong stay wrong until you’re right. Chandrasekhar is perfect. Not sure this is really an Unconference. It’s more an alternative to placard waving and car burning.
April 8th, 2006 at 8:05 am
[…] “The same people speaking at a conference [in the same country], bitched about by the same people.” That would probably be the outsider’s view on the little ripple going around the Blogosphere from the pebbles started by the Supernova Conference Guest List (see here, here and here for starters), and Marc Canter’s declaration of ‘to the bar across the road!!!‘ […]
April 8th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Looks like the same-old, same-old cheapskates will be hanging out across the street from the well-funded. Count me in.
April 9th, 2006 at 7:53 am
[…] Most importantly - we’ll assemable a critical mass of young, compelling people who never get asked onto panels, who don’t work for large companies and who HAVEN’T been heard from - before. [Marc’s Voice] […]
April 10th, 2006 at 7:59 am
You might want to expand your scope beyond young people as the people who rarely get their voices heard. Maybe think all the smart people who rarely get their voices heard. Finding them and getting them to your place is the winning bet. Otherwise the same risk of the same people continues. It is hard to get out of our ruts.
April 10th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
[…] Steve Gillmor was kind enough to mention me in regards to our ‘Unconference meme’ and Hugh’s retort (but not my retort back!) […]
April 11th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
If the conference is Supernova, the death of a star, then the unconference can be Protostar, the birth of a star. Great image for your concept of new voices.
April 14th, 2006 at 9:22 am
[…] As Dave Winer and I were discussing how to pull off the unplanned unconference opposite Kevin Werbach’s Supernova - it was the collision of business models that most dominated my mindstate. By defintion if you want to hire a hotel, get nice people to register you, print up pretty brochures and make t-shirts, have signage, badges, AV, coordinated speakers and what not - it takes money. […]
April 20th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
[…] Then Marc Canter suggested an unconference in response to SuperNova which has become BloggerCon IV. I RSVP’ed yes to that, though now I’m not sure if I can go. […]
April 24th, 2006 at 10:59 am
Marc,
I’m coming to yours should be much better schmoozing oppotunities
May 4th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
New name: BloggerCon IV
June 23-24, same time as BarCamp SF!
http://www.bloggercon.org/
May 26th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Great job guys…
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:15 pm
i try to find something at google.com and take it on your site…thanks