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RecentChangesCamp was born from the intersection of wiki and OpenSpace - a very wiki-like way of organizing gatherings. 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:
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…
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The event will take place on May 9 to 11, 2008 in downtown Palo Alto, California. We will meet at the offices of SocialText: 655 High St, Palo Alto, CA map, walking distance from the Caltrain station.
More information about travel, lodging, etc. will be available here over time.
The event will be free to attend, thanks to generous sponsorship from AboutUs, Atlassian, SocialText, SolSeed.net, Wikia, and wikiHow.