I think someone needs to put up the wiki first

Good idea - it would be great to be an attendee. I’d hope to get to MashupCamp, but it overlapped chronologically and budgetarily with my honeymoon. Northervoices sounds cool, but IMHO “Web2″ is a better scope than just blogging - I’d personally be more interested in discussing business models and the implications of democratizing content and functionality. Anyway, I’d love to attend, and let me know if I can help out with organizing from Winnipeg.

Thanks, Rod. I appreciate your input. We’ll certainly keep your
offer in mind. And congratulations :-)

Mathew

[...] Given that Toronto - actually anywhere east of Vancouver - has a distinct lack of “Web 2.0″-ish activity, it’s nice to see that Mark Evans, Mathew Ingram, Rob Hyndman, Michael McDerment, and Stuart MacDonald are banding together to organize a conference on the subject. [...]

Just finished attending MashupCamp, and highly recommend that as a format for a conference, or rather, an un-conference. No fee, no keynotes, no panels, all attendee-driven.

Thanks for the comment, Sandy. I like the MashupCamp idea too, and I enjoy “un-conferences” like DemoCamp and TorCamp and others. I’m not sure that’s how we’re going to go with this one, but thanks for the input.

Mathew

, and Stuart MacDonald are working on a conference for all us Toronto-bound Web 2.0/Social Media/Blog/Feed/AJAX/etc. fans. Right now they are sharing their ideas and soliciting input: Michael’s PostMatthew’s Post Rob’s Post Mark Evan’s Post With such heavy-hitters behind it, expect to hear lots on this around the blogosphere. In fact memeorandum has already picked it up. Take a look at what they are up to and give them some feedback - on their sites or

But does it have a cool pun in the name? A blogging conference HAS to have a good pun in the name.

Thanks, Travis — we’ll keep that in mind :-)

“Essentially, we want to get some of the smartest and most interesting people in the Web 2.0 movement (if I can call it that) into a room together and talk about how some of these issues are changing the way we live our lives,”

That sounds a lot better than “We want to get the hottest show-biz acts of this business to perform at our party” :-).

Mathew,
Interested in having someone from higher ed talk about how web2.0 is changing life here? All the same issues apply - how to market web2.0 into established culture, what does it mean for collaboration and publishing, etc. - which gives perspective to the impact of web2.0 in other areas.

Thanks for getting in touch, Stewart. That’s definitely something we’ve considered looking at. We’re still nailing down the format and topics we’re going to cover in panels and workshops, so we’ll have to get back to you.

Mathew

Web 2.0 comes to Toronto

Everyone’s talking about it (well all the people in a particular geeky subset), there’s going to be a web 2.0 conference here in Toronto in early May.

We share a common fascination and enthusiasm for what’s happening now on the Web and…

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/21/hey-my-dad-has-a-barn-lets-put-on-a-show/ Would it be called Northern Voice East? Or NorthEastern Voice? Or Eastern Voice (Also Northern)? So many issues, so little time.

as one of the organizers of Northern Voice, love to help promote and share our experience
feel free to contact me personally: roland AT rolandtanglao.com
or the NV organizers info northernvoice.ca

here’s an interesting thought
1. make day 1 the formal one that costs say $25
2. make day 2 free and have workshops and unstructured stuff - no pitches, no powerpoint, everybody must participate
we had the reveerse at NV, but it might be better this way so people can meet on day 1 and come up with spontaneous workshops/sessions on day 2

Thanks, Roland. Northern Voice sounded like a lot of fun. And thanks for the offer of help — we could definitely use all the help we can get. I’m sure we’ll be in touch one way or another…

Mathew

What I Look for in a Conference

Some folk are organizing a blogging conference in Toronto. Here are my thoughts on the matter.

Mentally I call this as TORCON-1 ( the first Conference on Web2.0Spehere in Toronto) Inital Start ThreadsMatthew Ingram ; Mark Evans, Rob Hyndman;Mike McDerment ;Stuart MacDonald; Jermey has suggestions; Dave of IMEX is clued in too ( I think he and Stuart talked) Note2Self: (Only Upate this post for event moblization efforts

Web 2.0 conference in Toronto May 8th and 9th, no location or agenda specified as yet, but there’s a Web 2.0 conference being organized in Toronto. Mathew Ingram, one of the organizers, has a post about ithere. Posted by sandy in Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Web 2.0 conference in Toronto May 8th and 9th, no location or agenda specified as yet, but there’s a Web 2.0 conference being organized in Toronto. Mathew Ingram, one of the organizers, has a post about ithere. Posted by sandy in Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

at the MaRS Collaboration Centre. Looks like it will be well attended with luminaries including Om Malik, Steve Rubel, Paul Kedrosky, Stowe Boyd and dozens more. The event is being put on by Mark Evans,Mathew Ingram, Rob Hyndman, Michael McDerment, and Stuart MacDonald and an impressive list of sponsors. Technorati Tags: canada, democamp, events, mesh, meshconference, toronto, web 2.0, web2.0, web20 - Web 2.0 Central: Web2.0, Ajax, Beta, Alpha, Startup,

+ Discussion: robhyndman.com, Michael McDerment Blog tech.memeorandum @ 1:55 PM ET, February 21, 2006 | April 22, 2006, 12:34 am

[...] Given that Toronto - actually anywhere east of Vancouver - has a distinct lack of “Web 2.0″-ish activity, it’s nice to see that Mark Evans, Mathew Ingram, Rob Hyndman, Michael McDerment, and Stuart MacDonald are banding together to organize a conference on the subject. [...]