Come. Talk. Learn.

Field Organizers: What messages and tactics worked? What didn't?
Bloggers: How did your relationship with traditional media shift?
Fundraisers: Did the makeup of donors (big/sm/online/off) evolve?
Techies: What lessons does the hard data offer?

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Notes from RootsCampNYC Wrap Up Session

post your session notes!
talk about rootscamp and un-conference model, if you had a good time, tell people about it (evangelize)
join the rootscamp Facebook group

30 min too short
too large for 30 min sessions
facilitation/how to moderate
schedule on the wiki
move more sessions to the AM
wrap up -- what people got out of it
- Noel says: put it on the wiki
- Homework: 3 bullets for each seesion
more blogger outreach (Matt tasked with this next time)
more generational mix -- more older people (older mindset)
more success stories, case studies, metrics
discussion: one track of predetermined sessions? maybe guide process of agenda formation more?
open agenda means people outside the world may think nothing is going to happen
lots of pre-listed sessions was a little confusing to the uninitiated b/c seemed like there was something going on in advance but it wasn't clear
lack of posted session notes

counter: if more at a time, smaller, then 30 min would be okay
liked short sessions in AM, agenda on wall... created some synergy
we like Noel
people passionate about issues
good mix of people from computer gurus, to hacks, to activists
breadth of experience
vendors behaved themselves
Aussies
Lots of discussions
people stayed on topic
seems like most people for whom this was their first unconference stayed to the end
gathering/connecting people who had a shared interest to work on a session together
people were pretty proactive, whatever their initial concerns, to make it work and fill out the agenda when they got here