March 9th, 2010
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The InfoCamp Seattle team is seeking a volunteer web graphic designer to help us revamp our event web site!
Want to be considered? Send a link to your portfolio to info@infocamp.org by Monday, March 22, 2010.
With a bunch of user experience professionals on the 2010 planning team, we are strong on the UX deliverables and presentation code — user flows, site maps, wireframes, HTML/CSS, Javascript, etc. And we’ve found a volunteer designer to create a new logo for InfoCamp. But we need help putting it all together, and we’d love to have someone from the InfoCamp community contribute.
From the emails we receive at info@infocamp.org, we’ll select a few potential volunteers to chat with and decide who ultimately gets to take our UX deliverables and make them pretty. We’ll be forever grateful to all who offer!
Email us a link to your portfolio by Monday, March 22, 2010 if you’re interested. Thanks!
March 6th, 2010
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Ever since InfoCamp was a just a sparkly new idea, it’s been a dream of ours to have it go worldwide. And now it really is!
InfoCamp was founded in Seattle in 2007, and it has run annually in Seattle since. In 2008, Berlin, Germany hosted an InfoCamp. In late 2009, Heather Ford at UC Berkeley contacted us, and she & friends began planning an InfoCamp. And now, it’s here – InfoCamp Berkeley 2010 is today!
It’s been awesome working with the Berkeley organizing committee. Congratulations on starting a new InfoCamp! And to all participants: have a ton of fun! Wish you could be there? Follow along on twitter or read notes from the sessions on the wiki!
Now, on to other cities… NYC, Boise, Portland, your city? We here in Seattle are hard at work on an InfoCamp Starter Kit, and will announce it widely when it’s ready, which will be soon. Want to run an InfoCamp in a new city? Simply read the Starter Kit (when available) and get in touch with us at info@infocamp.org!
October 25th, 2009
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Why confine the awesomeness of InfoCamp to Seattle?
We would love to see InfoCamps in other cities, and we plan to support efforts to host InfoCamps elsewhere. (There’s already been an InfoCamp in Berlin!)
Aaron and Rachel led a session at InfoCamp Seattle 2009 about starting your own InfoCamp, and we plan to follow that up with an “InfoCamp Starter Kit.” The kit will include things like best practices, checklists, videos, artwork, resources, etc.
One of the resources in the starter kit will be this article from the ASIS&T Bulletin – it describes the origins of InfoCamp and gives a few tips for running one.
As we do this in our spare time on a volunteer basis, we can’t guarantee when we’ll be done with the starter kit – but rest assured, we’re working on it!
In the meantime, while we put our materials together, potential InfoCamp organizers can do three things:
- Start looking for ways to plug into local professional organizations, because those are the places to find like-minded people. Start thinking about building a crack team of InfoCamp organizers. We suggest at minimum four people, with five as a best practice. Consider the skills and personalities you want to put together into a dream team. Don’t be afraid to approach people in your community – that’s how InfoCamp got started in Seattle!
- Think about where your seed money is going to come from. We will provide example sponsorship documents in the kit. But for now, think about who you might approach, or what budget you might have access to through a professional, community, or academic organization. You’ll probably need a down payment on a venue to get the ball rolling.
- Begin what might be a fairly long search for a venue. You’ll need a big auditorium space, a meal space with a staging area for catering, and at least five breakout rooms. Don’t forget to scope out space for a registration desk, coffee and snacks, and sponsor tables. See our blog post about how we chose Cleveland High School for inspiration. Remember: humans take cues about how to act from their surroundings. Therefore, the more humble and laid-back the atmosphere, the better. Skip hotels or fancy conference centers. Get creative and think schools, community centers, etc.
If you have ideas about what you would like to see in an InfoCamp Starter Kit, email info@infocamp.org or comment here and let us know!
