ChangeCamp Ottawa - May 16, 2009 - sold out

ChangeCamp Ottawa is sold out.  This unconference about citizens re-engaging with government and with each other, enabled by technology, will be this Saturday May 16 (2009).

Here's a kind of bookend from my perspective (I'm sure it's different for all the organisers):

http://friendfeed.com/scilib/f3bdb183/some-changecamp-ottawa-history

this tweet I sent was actually a question, but somehow turned into the plan - from @scilib (me): @thornley So that's #changecampottawa planning at say 6 PM at http://www.clocktower.ca/ on Bank on Monday February 16? http://twitter.com/scilib/status/1203041472

from @scilib (me): last big ChangeCamp Ottawa planning meeting tonight May 11. Event itself will be this Saturday May 16. #cco09  http://twitter.com/scilib/status/1762070027

In case you're wondering what the point of Twitter is, it was a key enabler that helped to make possible all of the connections between people who had never met.  From tweets in February, to a sold-out event in May.

You can find us on the web:
* the (closed but public) social network for the event, courtesy of one of our sponsors, Pathable
* the main changecamp.ca site
* Twitter hashtag #cco09
* tag cco09 anywhere else
* I've also made a FriendFeed aggregator which should be a good place to track live reporting / uploads during the event.  (Unfortunately due to the FF redesign, it kind of looks like all the items come "from" ChangeCamp Ottawa - they're actually just being pulled in from various sources on the web.)

Apartment613 has an interview with Mark Faul, and CHUO Around the Block interviewed Morgen Peers.  (To some extent Morgen and I helped to sustain the event through its initial growing pains - we were the only two people in common between the first and second organising meetings.)

UPDATE: I see Mark Faul has written a post (rather more thoughtful and insightful than my just-the-facts approach above) - and he has also made a NetVibes aggregator for the event.

UPDATE 2: I should mention that ChangeCamp is also in Facebook, if you like that sort of thing.