Emergent

InfoCamp Seattle 2009 (Seattle, WA, USA)

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 by Conference Editor

InfoCamp is an unconference about user experience, information architecture, user-centered design, librarianship, information management & related fields.

It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which most presentations are designed and delivered by attendees. And it’s a lot of fun!

Speakers: Axel Roesler, Vanessa Fox, and you!

See infocamp.info for more info (pun intended).

Posted in Calendar | Emergent | Seattle, WA, USA
Add the first comment »

Pecha Kucha Night (Columbus, OH, USA)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 by Keith Instone

Columbus Volume #9 of Pecha Kucha Night willl be at Landmark’s Gateway Theater at South Campus Gateway.

See pecha-kucha.org for more information.

Posted in Calendar | Columbus, OH, USA | Emergent
Add the first comment »

Ignite Phoenix #3 (Phoenix, AZ, US)

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 by Dean Barker

Ignite Phoenix #3 is coming up soon!

When: Wednesday, February 25th
Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm
Where: Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway

“Ignite Phoenix is an information exchange aimed at fostering and inspiring Phoenix’s creative community. Presenters get 5 minutes and 20 slides to talk about anything they are passionate about. Send in your presentation or just show up and have a fun time.” (http://www.ignite-phoenix.org/about/)

Submissions accepted until 5:00pm on February 6th, 2009.
http://www.ignite-phoenix.org/submissions/

Posted in Calendar | Emergent | Phoenix, AZ, USA
Tags: ignite
Add the first comment »

Mozilla Design Jam (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 by Dan Cooney

At the University of Michigan, Duderstadt Center, Design Lab One The SOCHI and SCSI student groups have joined together with SourceForge to bring you the school year’s first design jam. At the event, participants will answer Mozilla’s call for participation, which requests that we put our heads together to come up with revolutionary new ideas for a browser, from a simple improvement on how new tabs work to a more complete browser interface redesign. You don’t have to be a Firefox user or an HCI student to attend. Everyone is welcome to share browsing habits, frustrations, and ideas. The groups will follow up with the ideas generated at this event during two additional design jams later in the semester at which they will sketch ideas and create prototypes. This is an opportunity to build experience and portfolio materials in interface design and contribute to open source in a way that matters with no long-term commitment. SourceForge will provide T-shirts to all the participants. If you plan to attend, RSSVP on Facebook to ensure enough pizza for all ( http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=23492638077 ).

Design Jam
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Design Lab One, Duderstadt Center 

Posted in ACM SIGCHI | Ann Arbor, MI, USA | Calendar | Emergent | Local meeting
Tags: design | Mozilla | SCSI | SOCHI
Add the first comment »

Pecha Kucha Night (Columbus, OH, USA)

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 by Bob Hale

Sponsoring Organization: Columbus chapter of Pecha Kucha

Date & Time: May 22, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Click for more information

Location: Drexel Theater-Grandview
Suggested donation of $2 at the door for price of venue

What is Pecha Kucha Night?
Pecha Kucha Night is a place for young artists, architects and interactive designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor.

Posted in Calendar | Columbus, OH, USA | Emergent
Read the 2 comments »

The Unconferenz (Honolulu, HI, USA)

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 by Michal Anne Rogondino

The first Honolulu Unconferenz is happening this coming weekend.

Event: A grassroots tech/Internet gathering to foster sharing and interaction amongst its participants.
Date: January 12, 2008, Saturday
Time: 8:00am to 3:00pm
Place: JAIMS (in Hawaii Kai), 6660 Hawaii Kai Dr, Honolulu, Hawaii 96825
Attendance: 50 – 100 Limited
Cost:$20 in advance, $25 at the door. This will include a t-shirt and lunch.

For more information go to: http://www.unconferenz.com/

Or download: The Unconferenz flier

Posted in Calendar | Emergent | Honolulu, HI, USA
Tags: geek | GUI | tech | unconference
Add the first comment »

RIA Jam (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

Sunday, January 6th, 2008 by Keith Instone

The RIA Jam is an exploration of Rich Internet Application programming, with Bruce Eckel, James Ward (Adobe), and Josh Holmes (Microsoft).

Browser-based technologies have shown extreme limitations in capabilities, the quality of the resulting user interface, and consistency across platforms. In addition, Internet latency issues are intruding more and more on the end user. This Jam explores the different technologies available for solving these user experience problems with Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Beginners through advanced programmers are welcome.

When musicians have a jam, they get together and explore music without knowing exactly where they will end up. When programmers have a jam, they get together and explore new technologies in the same way. A programming jam is a very informal workshop to explore and learn about a particular technology. It’s better and more fun than struggling with it by yourself. In a jam, you can explore whatever you want, however you want. We provide space, time, camaraderie, and whatever expertise we have among us. You may work individually or in groups. Although there is plenty of educational material, there is no set agenda. You work on whatever interests you, at your own pace.

Posted in Ann Arbor, MI, USA | Calendar | Emergent
Add the first comment »

Gear Live - Mind Camp 5

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 by Digital Web Seattle Mind Camp is a self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab. What happens when you put 300 of the smartest Seattlites in a creative environment for 24 hours? We are not sure either, but we would like to find out. Time to meet and connect with those involved in the interesting projects going on in Seattle. Speakers: Everyone January 19, 2008 in Seattle, WA @ Tukwila Community Center

Posted in Emergent | Seattle, WA, USA
Comments Off