Mark your calendars - PubCamp West 2 is set for Aug. 25 at Work Evolution Laboratories in Long Beach! Public media staffers from around the west coast will once again be gathering to discuss ways to address some of the challenges we’re facing.
Click here to register, and follow this Tumblr for more details in the coming days.
RSVP!
If you’re planning on attending, please RSVP as soon as possible to ensure we have space for them at the event.
Help us decide on topics!
While #pubcamps are always unconferences (meaning loosely styled, no agenda), we know many of you are coming from far and wide. So help us decide what we should talk about. Vote on ideas and submit your own. We’ll announce the sessions when we get started Saturday. VOTE HERE.
A hackathon!
As part of the first #pubcampwest, we will be holding a developer-driven hackathon to help engage journalists, producers and developers to create better public journalism in a slightly more structured, but equally open and creative atmosphere.
The focus: building a better future for online audio.
Whether curating and presenting archives of public agency meetings, creating new ways of referencing or using online audio in stories, or thinking of ways to allow the public to access and/or augment online audio, we’re seeking ideas for projects that can goad us to think of how we can better present audio to the online world.
Ideas? Skills? Let’s plot them HERE.
The hackathon will happen in conjunction with the rest of the unconference, but with a slightly different schedule: Introductions and rapid-fire presentations of potential projects August 20, after which we’ll review and vote on the best. We’ll start hacking Sunday morning through 5pm, when we’ll wrap things up with 10-minute project presentations.
We’re looking for a head-count on interested parties for the hackathon. Please email Eric Zassenhaus <mailto:ezassenhaus@scpr.org> and let us know if you’d like to be part!
Parking and more details
Parking is available on Raymond Avenue and at the Metro parking structures located a few blocks north and south of the Mohn Broadcast Center:
Del Mar Metro Station 230 S. Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91105
Fillmore Metro Station 95 Fillmore Street Pasadena, CA 91105
We encourage you to take the Metro Gold Line as SCPR is conveniently located between the Del Mar and Fillmore stops.
We will soon have local hotels, directions to the conference and a loose schedule for the weekend up here soon. Stay tuned!
PubCampWest is a collaboration of KPCC, Southern California Public Radio, PBS SoCal and KQED.
PublicMediaCamp, or PubCamp for short, is a nationwide series of gatherings focused on forging greater collaboration between public media organizations and their communities. Inspired by unconferences such as Foocamp and Barcamp, PubCamps are informal opportunities for techies and community media makers to get together with NPR and PBS staff and develop projects together.
