[Noisebridge-discuss] Unconference about the future of journalism and online media

[Yury Lifshits]

Hi everyone,

I am organizing an unconference about the future of journalism
and online media on May 2 in San Francisco (http://remakecamp.eventbrite.com).
Can Noisebridge host the event? We discussed that yesterday on a weekly meeting,
and there was a general agreement, that it is possible.

If we do it, I need some Noisebridge members to help me with setup -
projector, screen, bring chairs from basement etc. Also we should
publicize the event through noisebridge channels (wiki, mailing list,
what else?)

Thanks!
Yury

RemakeCamp is unconference about online media.

We welcome editors, journalists, engineers, designers and managers of
online media as well as service providers for them.

Topics we cover:

    * Content creation. Crowdsourcing, citizen journalism, freelance
journalism, content farming, user contributed content, expert
contributed content, collaborative publishing, the future of
investigative journalism.
    * The role of editor. Curation, link journalism, news filtering,
tastemaking and trendsetting, social news filtering, freelance and
crowdsouring management, reputation systems for contributors,
community management.
    * Tools. Apps and plugins for publishers, tools for reporters and
writers, analytics for online media.
    * User experience. Optimizing content consumption for mobile
devices, personalized news, attention profiles, reader interfaces,
interactive articles, data visualization, social media integration.
    * Business. Monetization models, attracting traffic, partner
programs, content exchange, creating job boards and marketplaces, paid
content and paywalls.

We organize RemakeCamp to achieve several goals: (1) give everyone a
good overview of what's going on in the space of online media and
evolution of journalism; (2) extract and share the knowledge, learned
lessons, best practices and open challenges from people's heads; (3)
connect tech, editorial, and journalism communities.

We are looking for speakers (5, 10 or 20 minutes talks). Distant
speakers (skype video call) are also accepted. Email Yury (
yury at yury.name ) if you want to present.

During RemakeCamp we organize collaborative publishing experiment.
Using tools like Etherpad, PBWorks and Google Wave we will create in
real time a document representing our knowledge, future forecast and
important challanges of media innovation.

Preliminary program:

    * 1pm-3pm - Talks
    * 3pm-5pm - Networking
    * 5pm-6pm - Collaborative publishing experiment

Preliminary list of speakers

    * David Weekly (PBWorks)
    * Anu (Anirag) Nigam  (Buzzbox.com)
    * Anna Hennings (Bitchbuzz.com)
    * Yury Lifshits (Yahoo!)
    * Paul Biggar (NewsLabs/NewsTilt)
    * Your name here :)