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December 21, 2003
ETech: The inmates are running the asylum
Posted by Clay Shirky
Everybody knows that the hallway conference is at least as good and sometimes better than the conference room conference. This year's ETech knows it too, and is doing something about it, setting up
an ETech conference wiki to allow attendees to create something more organized than "Lets meet at the bar."
At this year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference, there are 27 night sessions reserved from allocation by the organizers, left open to be a "self organizing conference-within-a-conference." The idea is that ETCON attendees propose sessions on the open wiki, and vote on which they'd prefer to attend.
We're not looking for polished presentations. We'd prefer "white board" sessions on your works-in-progess, rough demonstrations with promise, concept and code (with an emphasis on running code, even if it doesn't yet fully represent the concept). You should be prepared to take input, answer questions, engage in discussion, and be open to altering your conceptions and mucking about in your source. Oh, and have a good deal of fun while you're at it.
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