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.

About the Brazil CyborgCamp ’10 event:

Date estimated: 30th March 2010

For information coming soon!

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.

(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.

{{Post your session notes here}}

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!

• AboutUs
• iterasi
• Lisa Rokusek
• Silicon Florist
• Inverge
• Pelotonics
• Makerlab
• EASCI

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

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!

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.

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.

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.)