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*November 3: Joi Ito (confirmed) & Brenda Gourley (to be invited), former Vice Chancellor of The Open University, Great Britain<br> | *November 3: Joi Ito (confirmed) & Brenda Gourley (to be invited), former Vice Chancellor of The Open University, Great Britain<br> | ||
*November 4: Mitchell Baker (confirmed) & Bre Pettis ( | *November 4: Mitchell Baker (confirmed) & Bre Pettis (confirmed), Makerbot<br> | ||
*November 5: TBD - open for suggestions | |||
'''''Tents | '''''Tents'''''<br> | ||
The Festival is not a conference with a structure of tracks, plenaries, sessions, and workshops. Instead imagine a hybrid network of curated and self-organized groupings that meet and disperse in the spaces provided throughout the Festival. To stay with our Festival feel, we are calling these groupings 'tents.'<br> | |||
Each grouping will gather in largely pre-determined times and spaces to move their Festival project from conversation/showcasing to action/state changes. Grouping leaders are responsible for desinging an engaging co-learning experience, because people can vote with their feet. <br> | Each tent grouping will gather in largely pre-determined times and spaces to move their Festival project from conversation/showcasing to action/state changes. Grouping leaders are responsible for desinging an engaging co-learning experience, because people can vote with their feet. <br> | ||
Participants will build their own Festival experience by committing to working with some | Participants will build their own Festival experience by committing to working with some tents through the whole Festival and sampling among the others. Every grouping is "in a fishbowl," transparently available to any Festival participant to experience at their own level of commitment. <br> | ||
Every participant should come committed to playing, working and learning together. Everyone has something to teach. Everyone has something to learn.<br> | Every participant should come committed to playing, working and learning together. Everyone has something to teach. Everyone has something to learn.<br> | ||
Currently | Currently confirmed tents:<br> | ||
*Hackerspace/Hackbus<br> | *Hackerspace/Hackbus<br> | ||
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Other potential | Other potential tents:<br> | ||
*Kids and hacking <br> | *Kids and hacking <br> | ||
*Libraries as hacklabs<br> | *Libraries as hacklabs<br> | ||
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*Big interactive happenings like giant 500 person [http://facilitation.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Facilitation:Spectrogram spectrograms], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_geeking speedgeeks], & science fairs.<br> | *Big interactive happenings like giant 500 person [http://facilitation.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Facilitation:Spectrogram spectrograms], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_geeking speedgeeks], & science fairs.<br> | ||
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