WhereCamp Montreal

We are hosting WhereCamp Montreal, on October 23. Click here to sign up.

What is WhereCamp?

"Society is being transformed by new maps and new mapping technology. Our mission is to help create a free forum for people to talk about, present, explore, and learn about projects that involve place."

WhereCamp is the unconference for hackers, mappers, thinkers, artists and anybody who wants to know their place. Hot on the heels of Geomatique 2009, we bring together enthusiasts for one day of in depth discussion and hacking. The last WhereCamp was done at U Denver and before that, SocialText in Palo Alto.

We are self-organized in true bar-camp style. Bring your projects, work and ideas to get feedback from a group of the worlds most passionate social cartographers. Topics are whatever you want them to be. Over the last two years we've seen presentations ranging from emergency crisis response such as the work http://ushahidi.com is doing, to local food such as http://www.serveyourcountryfood.net/ to psycho-geography to visualization, to mobile mapping to re-factoring urban landscapes.

The expectation is simply that you participate. It's your event and we'll all get out of it what you put into it. As usual the event is zero dollars to enter - we will be seeking sponsorship to make yummy food and
other consumables appear.