going to ChangeCamp Ottawa

There has been a lot of behind-the-scenes work on ChangeCamp Ottawa, and registration is now open (it's free, but there are a limited number of tickets).

ChangeCamp Ottawa is being organized by the Ottawa community to bring together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy makers, political players, change-makers and government employees to discuss participatory governance in a web-enabled world.

The event will be an unconference; the schedule will be put together by the attendees in the morning.

Thanks to great support from Mark Faul and the city, we have a fantastic venue at City Hall, I took some photos.  This will be a great opportunity for Ottawa area citizens to connect with their local government and with one another.

The event will be May 16, 2009.

Get your free ticket at http://changecampottawa2009.eventbrite.com/  (As there are a limited number, please only get a ticket if you are fairly sure you will be attending.)
I think there's supposed to be Pathable integration with EventBrite, but I don't know if it's working yet.

I've also created an Upcoming event.  I'm using tag/hashtag cco09.

If you want some ideas about the topics we might cover at the event, you can have a look at the discussion grid from ChangeCamp Toronto.

On a related note, I guess the ALI's February conference was popular enough that they are having another one, right before ChangeCamp Ottawa.  Their (very not-free) Social Media for Government event will be May 12-13 in Ottawa, with preconference May 11 and postconference May 14.  You may want to continue the energy and ideas from the ALI event right on into ChangeCamp.

If you're interested in the organising side, there's still lots of work to do, you can connect to us at

http://wiki.changecamp.ca/ChangeCamp_Ottawa

We are meeting Mondays at City Hall at 6 PM.

UPDATE 2009-04-22:

There is a Facebook group for ChangeCamp in general.

We are working on the Pathable integration but not quite ready to switch it on.  When we do, anyone who has registered on EventBrite will get an invitation to the Pathable social network that is part of our event - please don't be surprised, or worry that we sold your address - this is just a way for us to all meet and discuss online before the event.

UPDATE 2009-04-24: Pathable is go.  If you registered on EventBrite and didn't receive an automatic Pathable invite, please let me know.  ENDUPDATE

UPDATE 2009-05-17:  The event took place successfully, see my blog posting ChangeCamp Ottawa 2009 - from circle to grid to circle.  ENDUPDATE

Previously:
February 11, 2009  Making government data visible - and is Change coming to Ottawa?