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Register here or at  facebook you choose.  If you have any questions, feel free to email douglasawh@DELETETHISFORREALZgmail.com

The best way to help plan may be to join the Google Group.  You can also follow us on twitter.

WHAT: Because "everything" is pretty broad, we're going to have four tracks to make sure interested people get enough of what that which they seek. 

Those tracks will be:

CONTENT (Art, Media, Music, etc)

TECHNOLOGY (FOSS, open standards, interoperability, Accessibility)

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (Non-Profits, User Groups, etc)

ANYTHING GOES (Education, Government, Journalism, ANYTHING ELSE)

In the spirit of the un-conference, these tracks are subject to change and there are many places where boundaries will overlap.  PLEASE DO NOT FEEL RESTRICTED BY THESE TRACKS; if we have lots of people interested in open education, open government, etc, it's fine for that to bleed into content, technology or NGOs as most appropriate.

WHERE: Madison, Wisconsin, USA.  Grainger Hall, Director's Room.  Grainger is at the corner of University and Park downtown.

WHEN: April 18th 10am-5pm (if things are going well, we may plan to go out to eat at a local sushi establishment or somewhere else)

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POSSIBLE SESSION TOPICS (to be decided day-of and found on this spreadsheet)

Ok, the way this works for now (until we get something better) is "Topic - Presenter/Discussion Leader Intials" (or name [or username] if people won't recognize your initials).  If you're interested in the topic, but don't feel like you can lead discussion, just leave a note saying so!

Content

Show movies such as Revolution OS or Good Copy, Bad Copy - DAW (Good Copy, Bad Copy is 59 minutes, so if we do a discussion, that will have to be another session. Revolution OS is not free to distribute, so if we do this, someone will need a legitimate copy. In the past, showing to audiences has not been a problem with RevOS)

Using and defending Creative Commons - DAW / raster

Best sources for Creative Commons material - DAW /raster

Technology

Open Hardware- DAW (though I'm hoping someone with more knowledge will step up to lead this)

Code for your favorite FOSS project for any hour. MiniDevHouse - DAW

Introduction to Linux - DAW

Getting Involved in Madison - DAW (though I'm nominating Abraham to lead this)

Introduction to Drupal (hoping Blake or Abraham will do this) - DAW

Let's learn BSD together - DAW

Is Apple a friend because of common enemy? (a discussion)  - DAW / raster

.ogg .odt and Other Open Formats - DAW

Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Preview (it will be coming out the following week) - DAW

Anarchy (BSD) vs. Socialism (GPL): A Discussion - DAW

Non-Governmental Organizations

How to use social media to engage membership - DAW

Anything Goes

Free Schools, what are they? - DAW

Open Source Food - DAW

Funding Open: A Discussion - DAW

Free Speech: Pornography, Hate Speech and Other Tabboos. - DAW

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PLANNING DETAILS

Concession stand for people to buy?  Free food for workers/planners

Open Food demos?

Potential Sponsors

UW Library

Google 

Documentation Ideas

Video? VideoVillian? (I'd be willing to shoot some video and still photos / raster)

Live on Low Power FM?