Salut-hi, everyone! Many of you have already received personal invitations to attend RecentChangesCamp Montreal; for those of you who we've missed, I wanted to send this broadcast message. I realize it's slightly off-topic but I think it's of general interest to Wikimedia-involved people in Canada. Apologies for dupes; feel free to chew me out off-list.

My name is Evan Prodromou; I'm a Web technologist, writer, Free Software/Culture advocate and entrepreneur. Among other things, I'm the founder of Wikitravel (http://wikitravel.org/), the Open Content, wiki-edited travel guide. I'm also a MediaWiki developer and a Wikipedia en: administrator. I've been a Wikipedian since 2002.

I'm writing as one of the volunteer organizers of RecentChangesCamp Montreal. RecentChangesCamp is a world-wide "unconference" for wiki technologists, wiki users and wiki admins. Also invited are people from related technology and community practises, as we look for common ground on community, collaboration, and self-organizing behaviour. The event is free of charge for all participants. The previous two RecentChangesCamp events in Portland have been extremely fun and interesting for participants.

http://www.recentchangescamp.org/

RecentChangesCamp Montreal ("RoCoCoCamp") will be held in Montreal from 18-20 May 2007. It will be a three-day conference with the agenda set by the participants, using [[Open Space Technology]].

http://www.rocococamp.info/

No keynotes, no hours-long slide presentations, no conference tracks: the emphasis of RecentChangesCamp is on bringing together smart, passionate, talented people for productive, peer-to-peer talks.

People involved with or concerned about the Wikimedia Foundation and WMF activities in Canada are strongly encouraged to attend. Not only will there be opportunities to talk about and work on Foundation issues with other WMF participants, but there will also be participants from other non-profit and for-profit wiki organizations as well. It's a great opportunity for sharing WMF experiences and for gathering information about the rest of the wiki world.

If you would like to attend, please sign up on our wiki:

http://www.rocococamp.info/Participants

We're arranging lodging for a variety of budgets (from couch-surfing to the Hyatt). Travel to Montreal for most Canadians will be relatively inexpensive, given the great variety of rail and air options.

Please check out our wiki if you have any questions; also feel free to contact anyone in our all-volunteer organizing group. You can write to me directly or call my cell phone (+1-514-554-3826).

Thanks,

-Evan

________________________________________________________________________ Evan Prodromou evan@prodromou.name http://evan.prodromou.name/