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CyborgCamp Planning Meeting at AboutUs

Published on January 3, 2010 in cyborgs, news and volunteers. 0 Comments Tags: 2010, aboutus, conference, cyborgcamp, organizing, portland, speakers, tech, volunteers.

Great News! The next CyborgCamp will be in early May of 2010. That means its time to start planning!

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This meeting is everyone’s chance to brainstorm on location ideas, sponsors and speakers. What kinds of topics are of interest to you? How has the idea of Cyborg evolved over the last year? What new kinds of technologies have arrived on the scene?

We’ll discuss volunteers and the wiki too. Come along, especially if you helped make CyborgCamp PDX ‘08 so excellent in the first place. Bring snacks and drinks to share with others.

This planning meeting will most likely be followed by general networking and fun at a local haunt.

RSVP on Upcoming.org

Where:

AboutUs.org

107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520
Portland Oregon 97214
United States

When:

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 from 7–10pm

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What is CyborgCamp?

CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We’ll discuss topics such as social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy.

CyborgCamp’s aim is to have many communication channels, such as Twitter, Flickr, UstreamTV, Video and Audio recordings and live chats displayed on the screen.
Why May 2010? In March 2010, CyborgCamp will make its way to Brazil and back before landing again in Portland, Oregon for its second year.

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Questions? Contact Amber Case @caseorganic or MJ @mama_j.

You can also follow @cyborgcamp on Twitter for updates.

CyborgCamp Brazil ‘10

Published on December 19, 2009 in cyborgs, fun stuff, speakers and volunteers. 0 Comments Tags: brasil, brazil, cyborgcamp, march, summary.

CyborgCamp has been quiet for a while in preparation for CyborgCamp Brazil ‘10, CyborgCamp’s first international branching.

About the Brazil CyborgCamp ‘10 event:

Date estimated: 30th March 2010

For information coming soon!

CyborgCamp Pictures are Up!

Published on January 5, 2009 in fun stuff, news, speakers and videos. 0 Comments Tags: cyborgcamp, mark colman, photos.

The following pictures are just a sample of the amazing photos at Mark Coleman took of CyborgCamp. The full set can be be viewed here on Flickr.

Reid Beels explains the unconference structure.

Ward Cunningham explains new ‘Ways of Seeing”.

Simon Walter-Hansen asks a question during one of the presentations.

Leah Hollander explains how insulin pumps affect sex lives.

Thanks so much to Mark Colman for the pictures. His professional site is markcolemanphoto.com/, you can also follow him on Twitter (@Kram).

If you’re looking for videos of CyborgCamp, check out this post.

CyborgCamp Wrap-up — Thanks For Coming!

Published on December 7, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, news and volunteers. 3 Comments Tags: cubespace, cyborgcamp, livestreaming, pre-party, strange love live, twitter, unonference.

(Photo Credit: David Kominsky)

Session Notes
Lots of people took session notes and are wondering where to put them. We’ve created a place on the CyborgCamp wiki just for that.

If you’re unfamiliar with using Wiki’s, you can simply E-mail your session notes to caseorganic@gmail.com and I’ll post them for you.

Blog posts on CyborgCamp

Please let me know when you’ve completed a blog post about CyborgCamp. You can leave a link to it in the comments. I’ll link to it from here, and from my main site at http://oakhazelnut.com.

A Great Big, Enormous Thanks to:

Eva Schweber (@evacatherder) and David Kominsky (@rabbidavid) of CubeSpace, Mike Kaos (@drnormal) for audio and video streaming with Joe Christenson (@blazeit) of BlazeStreaming. Cami Kaos (@camikaos) of Strange Love Live for an amazing Pre-Party show at Vidoop (thanks, Vidoop!), Nate Angell (@xolotl) for pre-party supplies and Beer (thanks to Widmer for the donation). Thanks to Chris Pitzer (@chrispitzer) for accounting help and volunteering, and Reid Beels (@reidab) for helping the audience understand unconferences, as well as support on various iterations of everything.

Bram Pitoyo (@brampitoyo) ran the CyborgCamp Twitter account (@cyborgcamp) almost from day one, and provided needed support and awesomeness during the entire conference process. I must thank him a billion times over for this. Thanks to Alex Williams (@podcasthotel) for bringing out the blogger bus!

Thank you to all of the volunteers who met at CubeSpace at 7Am to help set up!

Cameron Mulder
Alex Williams
Chris Pitzer
Ramona W.
Anna W.
Kathleen McDade
Nate Angell
Reid Beels
Mike Kaos
Joe Christensen

Thanks to Tyler Sticka for the incredible logo that made everything look awesome. And thanks to Reid Beels for making the sweet hashtag aggregator (view it in action at http://cyborgcamp.reidab.com/).

And our wonderful sponsors! You guys made it happen!

Thanks to the incredible speakers, unconference and conference.

Bill DeRouchey
Lia Hollander
Ward Cunningham
Hideshi Hamaguchi

International Attendance

We had viewers from all over the world, including Japan, Germany, and London. The live stream rocked.

In Conclusion

Portland is an incredible place. Thanks for making it even more incredible this weekend.

Sincerely,
Amber Case

LiveStreaming Video Feed from #CyborgCamp

Published on December 6, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff and news. 0 Comments Tags: cyborg camp, cyborgcamp, livestreaming.

Here is the live stream of what our conference looks like right now. You can also tune in at http://www.mogulus.com/pdxjoe (this option allows chat).

Party like a Cyborg at the CyborgCamp Pre-Party at Vidoop!

Published on December 5, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, identity, news and sponsors. 0 Comments Tags: beer and blog, cami kaos, cyborg camp, cyborgcamp, dr normal, portland tech, preparty, strange love live, vidoop.

CyborgCamp’s Pre-party will be graciously hosted at Vidoop, our local Portland Open-Id provider!

New Vidoop Logo

Come partake in drinks and festivities before the conference in the morning! Special guests Cami Kaos and Mike (Dr. Normal) will be live-broadcasting Strange Love Live.

They do an extremely incredible, awesomesauce, sweetopian podcast live-streaming Portland tech conversational media event every Friday night at 10Pm.

If you’ve never been able to tune in before, you’ll be able to see it LIVE tonight!

There will be great conversations and some seasonal ale donated by Widmer brewery. Plus wine, snacks, and a live DJ to whip up some Cyborgian tunes.

His name is Alain Bloch, and he’s a sweet Rails developer too.

When Does it start?

Friday December 5, 2008 at 8:30pm

You can RSVP here.

And Where is Vidoop?

Vidoop is located right above Backspace (a regular haunt of the Portland tech community)
117 NW 5th Ave, Suite 210
Portland, Oregon 97209

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See you there!

P.S. You might want to go to Beer and Blog first. I hear there’s going to be some very interesting things going on there!

@missburrows Does a Low Budget Ad for CyborgCamp in 3…2…1…

Published on December 4, 2008 in fun stuff, news and speakers. 0 Comments Tags: cyborgcamp, insulin pump, lia hollander, low budget ad, m@missburrows, presentation.

If you haven’t already heard, Lia Hollander @missburrows is going to be giving a presentation on “How Being a Cyborg Keeps Me Alive” from 11:45Am-12:30Pm at CyborgCamp.

She also just made this little promo video for it, which is pretty epic+adorable+cyborgian.

Lia will talk about the electronics that help keep her healthy and alive, the difficult decision to be attached 24/7 to an insulin pump and that “cyborgs” do in fact have sex.

There will be time for Q&A, open discussion on defining the role in medicine and actual insulin pumps and glucose meters for you to play with.

Anywho — it is a speech you will not want to miss.

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Want to learn more about Lia Hollander’s speech? There’s a full description here.

What Does CyborgCamp Look Like?

Published on November 16, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, identity and news. 0 Comments Tags: cyborg, cyborgcamp, data visualization, future, technology conference, twitter.

Sometimes graphs are really fun to make. This one was especially fun and easy to make (read how to make your own below). It gives some info on topics that CyborgCamp may touches on.

To make this graph, I simply went to the ‘About Page’ of the CyborgCamp site and selected all of the text. Then I pasted it right into the text box on Wordle.net/create. Wordle is an especially useful tool to use if you want to examine the word volume on your website. Just copy and paste, and Wordle generates a sweet graph.

Wiki Inventor Ward Cunningham to Speak at CyborgCamp PDX

Published on November 11, 2008 in news and speakers. 0 Comments Tags: aboutus, computer programmer, cto, cybords, cyborgcamp, portland tech, ward cunningham, wiki, wikipedia.

If you don’t know already, Ward Cunningham is the computer programmer who developed the first Wiki. He’s one of the most interesting and brilliant people I’ve ever met. He’s currently living in Oregon and is the chief technology officer for AboutUs.org (a wiki-based guide to all websites.

Last night, I asked Ward if he’d like to give as speech at CyborgCamp and the answer was yes. Ward’s presentation will be 30 minutes long, and he’ll be participating in the unconference sessions as well. An update on what he’ll be speaking on will be posted here shortly. Needless to say, it’s going to be great to hear from him. Perhaps he’ll bring some cool inventions and programs with him too.

About Ward

Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the word.

Ward also created Cybords, the biologically inspired computer methodology for natural kinetic sculputure shown at DorkBotPDX and MakerFair. He and his son collaborated with the Graffiti Research Lab to make the Throwie Talkie exhibited at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

What Next?

We’ll keep you posted on developments as they happen. Of course, you can get really quick updates (and sweet news on Cyborgs from all over the web) by following @cyborgcamp on Twitter.

Speaker Highlight – Bill DeRouchey

Published on November 10, 2008 in news and speakers. 1 Comment Tags: Bill DeRouchey, cyborgcamp, humans and technology, interaction design, language of technology, machine language, Speaker Highlight, ziba design.

We’re honored to have Bill DeRouchey, a Sr. Interaction Designer in the Interaction Design group at Ziba Design present at CyborgCamp ‘08. He is a witty, brilliant person, and a fun guy to be around. We’re all looking forward to his speech.

Is Machine Language expanding Human Language?

“As technology creeps more and more into our everyday lives,” DeRouchey explains, “the language of technology also permeates our culture. It’s expanding our language, giving us new metaphors for thinking and communicating. The play symbol, the mouse pointer, the @ sign are all examples of symbols with deepening layers of meaning and becoming true icons within our language. This session will spot trends of how humans and technology are forming a symbiotic language, hopefully leading to a fun and esoteric discussion”.

About

Bill is a frequent speaker at industry events such as the Interaction 08, Webvisions and Adaptive Path’s User Experience Week. He is also on the board of directors of IxDA, the Interaction Design Association.On the side, he’s working on his electric ukulele.

He’s the author of Push. Click. Touch, a blog tracing the past, present and future of how people and technology interact. (Formerly known as History of the Button.)