ChangeCampTO 2010 live-blogs, videos, photos
A huge thank you to our sponsors (Toronto Public Library, Peapod Studios, Samara Canada, Ascentum, Microsoft and OSSTF District 12), our volunteers and our participants for an incredible start to our project to create a civic engagement toolkit and a self-organizing movement of people who create spaces for civic discourse, community dialogue and citizen action.
The event was called ChangeCampTO: Designing a Civic Engagement Toolkit and it took place Tuesday, February 16th at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library.
The event was envisioned as an opportunity to engage a diverse cross-section of people from Toronto (and beyond) who care about civic life into a big, bold collaborative project: using the 2010 municipal elections as the excuse to gather people together in community-based dialogue both face-to-face and online.
This post will be a central place to archive links to content created by our participants at and about this event. That content is after the jump, and this post will be updated as content is published.
Once we collect this content and digest it, we’ll post our analysis of what we did together and some reflections on lessons learned from the event.
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ChangeCampTO: Designing a Civic Engagement Toolkit
Design a toolkit for a self-organizing civic movement
In a fun-but-focused 3 hours, registered attendees will contribute to the creation of a toolkit for a self-organizing, people-driven, nonpartisan movement for positive change in Toronto and beyond.
We see the municipal elections in 2010 as an excuse to gather people together to have real dialogues about the future of our communities. We believe that open source approaches can enable those conversations across the City of Toronto and beyond through community-based leadership.
We are tentatively calling this open toolkit “ChangeCamp-in-a-Box”. This idea was born in a ChangeLab session at last year’s ChangeCamp, and this year we plan to make it real.
Thanks to the Toronto Public Library for donating the beautiful Bram and Bluma Appel Salon space.
Agenda
5:30 – Gather in the Appel Salon Prologue space for drinks and networking prior to the event
6:00 – We move to the main space to set the context and describe the structure of the design exercise.
9:00 – We wrap the design exercise and break for the evening.
What to Expect
If you attended last year’s ChangeCamp, this event is different. It is not structured as an open-space style unconference. Instead, this is more like a large-scale ChangeLab session, where participants roll up their sleeves at tables of 8 around a single purpose.
Expect a great room filled with smart creative engaged people like you, working in small groups, learning by doing.
Registration Process:
- Visit http://changecampto2010.eventbrite.com/
- Find the ticket type that best describes you in the list
- Enter the amount of your Pay-What-You-Can donation (suggested $10, min $1)
- Pay online using PayPal or choose At The Door.
- Complete your contact information, and answer the question of what gifts you bring
- You will receive an email confirmation of your registration. Paper tickets are not required
You are welcome to attend without paying a donation online. Simply put “1″ as the quantity and click on “Pay at the Door” on the order screen that follows. We ask those who are able to help keep the event accessible to all by giving the suggested donation to help cover event costs.
Your Donations & Sponsorships:
Your donations and sponsorships will be used to pay for, in order of priority: equipment rental, supplies, snacks/food. Any surplus will go toward the project, building the toolkit. The organizers are donating their time.
Bar
We will have a cash bar offering drinks and sandwiches at the venue from 5:00 to 6:30 pm.
