Let's make it happen!

PodCamp is an ad-hoc gathering (or un-conference) born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. Attendance will be free or a nominal charge, but all are expected to participate and/or present. You can participate by giving a presentation, demo, or joining into another cooperative event, being on a panel/roundtable, or in other ways helping out on event day.

PodCamp is NOT just about podcasting, but about all social media/networking, and its relevance and usefulness to community, business and otherwise. This PodCamp is all about blogging, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, podcasting, videocasting/YouTube, and any other online community tools.

It's time to bring the PodCamp concept to Western Mass. We have a thriving community here of some truly amazing people. This is a chance for Western Mass bloggers, business people, artists, and academics, to get together, make connections, and for everyone to learn how social media can enhance their business, cause or organization. This is also a chance to celebrate the cornucopia of Western Mass. culture, a joyous blend of urban and rural; business, artistic and academic; near enough to other large metro areas, but small enough to hear yourself think. -- MorrissPartee

Planning

Who can help organize?

Who can help organize from afar?

(place name here)
Marlin May (I don't know what I can do from Lowell, but let me know)
please come and join

Where & When

When: Proposed date: TBD

Where: Open Square in Holyoke may be able to provide the space for this Camp.

Organizing meetings

The next meeting for organizing PodCampWesternMass is TBD. Initial ideas were tossed around at Smokin Lil's on 10/16/07.

Interested in participating (aka being a Camper)

To add your name, press "Edit page", the password is c4mp

##	Name	Location	Email	WebSite/Blog	Topic/Comment
1	MorrissPartee	Holyoke, MA	morriss (@at@) everythingcu ~~dot~~ com	http://everythingcu.wordpress.com/	TBD
2	TishGrier	Easthampton, MA	tishgrier (@at@) yahoo ~~dot~~ com	http://spap-oop.blogspot.com/	TBD
3	JaclynStevenson	Springfield, MA	jaclyncstevenson (@at@) yahoo ~~dot~~ com	http://writerjax.blog-city.com/	TBD
4	Randy	Boston, MA	anthrocite7 (@at@) yahoo ~~dot~~ com		TBD
5	Bill Weye	Sunderland, MA	bill (@at@) weye ~~dot~~ org	http://www.weye.org/	TBD
6	Marlin May	Lowell, MA	zentinal (@at@) yahoo ~~dot~~ com	http://www.fantasticdimensions.com/	TBD