The goal of the conference is to bring together people who wish to talk about the art and science of blogging, podcasting, video, syndication, unconferences, and related topics. Contexts for discussion will include politics, academia, libraries, publishing, and... ?

Every session will have a discussion leader and a topic, the goal is to share what we know, and create opportunities for innovation. The standards of previous BloggerCons will be practiced. No audience, speakers or panels. There will be one session on business models, which will be off-topic in every other session. (We've noted if this rule isn't stated up front, some people like to discuss this topic in every session.)

The purpose of the conversation is to create community in areas of technical interest, and in areas of professional interest. This can be seen as a conference of librarians and a conference of political bloggers, and a place where the various interests can meet and inform each other. With increasing interest in the idea of unconferneces itself we will try to have some portion of the conference be about unconferences, if we can handle that much recursion.

The easiest way to get an idea of how the conference works, browse around the grid for previous BloggerCons.

The reason the date is not locked down yet is to give us flexibility in finding venues. Ideally, we'd like to use contributed space, unusued office space in the San Francisco business district or South of Market areas is ideal. It's okay if we need to distribute the event across several locations. If you or your organization has space that we can use, please post a comment here, or send an email to myself or Sylvia Paull.

The cost to participate is $0. We fund the conference, meals, facilities, AV, webcasting, through donations. If you or your company would like to help sponsor the conference, you can make a donation through PayPal.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 4/14/06; 3:44:56 PM - --