• Vancouver’s First Freelance Camp—Awesome!

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  May 31

  At a tweeted prompting from Nancy Wu, who suggested Saturday morning in reply to my FourSquare post that “I should definitely report back to the Listserv/Graphic Designers of Canada community” about my experiences with this event, held at the NetWorkHub offices in Gastown on Saturday. I did some notes, which now look somewhat cryptic.

  Since then, in the process of trying to assemble a report that will make sense to others, I have realized that while my notes mean something (increasingly less, as time passes) to me, every other person there was also taking notes, photos, videos, recordings, etc., AND POSTING THEM ON THEIR BLOGS.

  What was remarkable about this event is that, until 9:30, there WAS NO AGENDA. That happened, alá Bar Camp, on the fly, with people proposing topics, then a show of hands and some jiggery-pokery around scheduling. Clearly everyone who ran a session had planned what they were going to do, but this looked damned amazing from where I was sitting.

  Here are some places to go for more information:
  MC & NetworkHub advisor, Raul Pacheco-Vega’s Blog post, with the running agenda of the day: http://bit.ly/d3aJkL

  But I needn’t have bothered including that, as the organizers built A WIKI of the complete day, including notes from all the session leaders: http://freelancecamp.pbworks.com/

  Jeremy Lim’s Excellent photography of the event: http://bit.ly/dCfIur

  Catherine WInter’s Post: http://bit.ly/9pQfso

  If you are on Twitter, feel free to look up all the entries for #604FreelanceCamp.

  Google also pulls up Twitter posts, so there is a pretty good archive available there as well.

  Honestly. Who needs to take notes any more when people can publish this amount of stuff in REAL TIME?

  I’m thinking of leaving my Caps Lock key on all the time now, I’m so freaked out about the amount & quality of information available.

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