Portland wiki conference

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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.

[edit] Name of Conference

  • Portland WikiCamp

[edit] Goal of Portland Wiki Conference is to

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

[edit] I Will Help Organize This Event

Sign yourself up

  • David Galiel, Lead Organizer

[edit] Perfect Venues

Webtrends has now been confirmed as the site of this conference. [1]

[edit] Ideal Keynote Speakers, Panelists, other 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. Add your suggestions below. Note: please identify specific people - we're looking for dynamic, insightful/entertaining/intriguing/exciting speakers. When we have confirmation, add "confirmed" to name. Also includes non-keynote speakers and/or panel participants.

  • Ward Cunningham (CONFIRMED)
  • 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


The current plan is for the event to have one scheduled track, including one or two keynote speakers each day, with several unconference sessions running in parallel.

[edit] 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 [[2]]

[edit] 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
  • Wilm Leier to provide session TBD Teresa Boze
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