Portland wiki conference

Saturday, March 26, 2010 and Sunday, March 27, 2010 at Webtrends in Portland, OR: (Wiki's 15th birthday is March 25, 2010)

Let's keep discussions on the discussion page.

Name of Conference

see discussion. Post suggestions here.

WikiCamp
Wiki15
WikiWorld
WikiBirthday15
What in the Wiki?
Wiki What You Will
Vinci Vidi Wiki (I came, I saw, I wiki - a play on the quote from Caesar, providing a theme for the party a well)
West Side Wiki (a play on West Side Story, provides theme)
Walkin' in a Wiki Wunderland
Wiki Wonka

Goal of Portland Wiki Conference is...

Evangelize Wikis to general public
Celebrate 15th anniversary of wikis & honor Ward's insight
unconference sessions for wikiphiles (technical, cultural, patterns, etc)
Give Portland Civic Wiki a major boost

I Will Help Organize This Event

(Sign yourself up, don't volunteer others)

David Galiel
Pete F. (this is a commitment to exploring organizing the event. I'm still on the fence about diving in, but will work on it for sure over the next month or two.)
Teresa Boze * ~ I have concept and elbow grease to contribute. I have no problem with committing; exploration over, let colonization begin!

Perfect Venues

Webtrends has now been confirmed as the site of this conference.

Ideal Keynote Speakers

It is valuable to have at least a keynote or two (or more, can have a keynote track) with marquee speakers who will attract an audience (including folks new to wikis) and help ensure participation in the conference. When we have confirmation, add "confirmed" to name. Also includes non-keynote speakers and/or panel participants.

Ward Cunningham
Jimbo Wales
Michael Wesch (The Machine Is Us(ing) Us)
Vivek Kundra (US CIO)
Eugene Kim
Sunir Shah - editor of MeatballWiki
Peter Thoeny from Twikiwiki
Ross Mayfield
Peter from Dreamfish
Angela Beesly from Wikia
Pheobe
Matt from EditMe
___ from MuppetWiki
David Weekly from PBworks
Marc Laporte from Tikiwiki
___ from EditThis
___ Dave Weiner from RSS
Ray King from AboutUs
___ from WikiSpaces
Folk from WikiHow

At the same time, we can start a community discussion about tracks, topics, discussions, etc. that potential attendees would like to see. We don't have to decide now whether to make it all unconference, or part unconference and part tracked, or all tracked. The idea is to get some energy and momentum going, while we work on the backend logistics of putting an event like this together.

Ideas for:

Proposed Tracks

Wiki 101
Wikipedia Academy
Content creation and other planning for Portland civic wiki
Wiki for biz (Oregon Training Network | Open Government Initiative
Wiki use with Open Government Initiative [[1]]

Proposed Topics/Presentations

Steven Walling presentation - Wikipedia for... (journalists? educators? what version would Steven like to present?)
Wikis and Social Change - Panel Discussion
End Wikilessness (modeled on End Bloglessness)
Rachel Kjack from Oregon Training Network on to provide session on Wiki in the Workplace a a virtual team tool(Mark Dilley will see her 12|10 at Beer and Blog)
Wilm Leier to provide session TBD Teresa Boze