From an email announcement by Lucas Cioffi sent to the NCDD listserve:
What: The
Open Government Community Summit Series is an inter-agency
collaborative event hosted by a different agency each month. Several
working groups have formed out of previous workshops, and the focus for
the final two workshops of 2010 is to actually build-- not just talk
about-- the essential "learning infrastructure" (i.e. collective
knowledge resources and standard operating procedures) necessary to
sustain the open government community over the long haul.
Something New:
Whether you can attend the summit or not, we need your help. Our
community lacks some critical elements of this learning infrastructure
and we're calling for the OpenGov Community Barn Raising of 2010 which
is occurring online now through October 13th.
To participate in building this learning infrastructure prior to the summit, join one of the working groups (OpenGov Inspiration, OpenGov Community Knowledge Management, OpenGov Community Standards)
and write a single sentence describing how you'll spend your 30
minutes working on any of the community infrastructure projects that
are listed on those pages between now and Oct 13th. Full details for this collective effort are on the wiki.
Note #1: Everyone
is highly encouraged to bring a laptop to this event so we can
experiment with some new online and in-person collaborative techniques.
Note #2: Due
to security restrictions at this location, participants must be US
citizens. Remote participation, however, will be robust and open to
all.
When: Wednesday,
October 13, 2010 from 9am-2pm, with an additional opportunity for
inter-agency co-working in the workshop space from 2pm-4pm
("co-working" means using a shared workspace to do your normal everyday
work in the presence of people doing similar work from other agencies).
We highly recommend you allow plenty of time to clear security in the
morning.
Who: Federal
managers implementing open government programs across all federal
agencies, transparency advocates, participation advocates, and
collaboration experts.
Where: NASA
Headquarters, Washington, DC. The closest metro stations are L'Enfant
Plaza (Blue/Orange/Green/Yellow Lines) and Federal Center SW
(Blue/Orange Lines). Enter the building at the intersection of 4th and
E Street SW.
Remote participants will
be able to contribute ideas and shape the in-person workshop as it
takes place. Final details will be emailed to registered remote
participants on October 11th. We are committed to making this a highly
engaging experience even for those that cannot be present in DC that
day. The first hour of presentations will be streamed live; several of
the breakout sessions that follow will be in a discussion format and
have a 2-way audio feed. We'll also be using Google Docs for
collaborative note-taking and brainstorming, so that remote participants
are as connected to the event as possible. Several of these techniques are experimental; it's open gov, so we're all learning as we go!
