StatusCampLA Announced and StatusNet at SCALE2010

In addition to doing a StatusCheck at FOSDEM2010 in Brussels this Saturday night, we are announcing StatusCampLA to be held in synchronization with SCALE2010 in Los Angeles, Feb 19-21 in LA, USA. Since this is a big Linux conference, we want to focus this unconference on open standards, free network services and hacking on StatusNet, the AGPL licensed software StatusNet and Identica are built on.

Come one! Come all, to the first StatusCamp unconference in LA. It will be held on Friday, February 19, 2010 at the Linux and Hackers' conference SCALE conference venue, Westin LAX in Concourse B, from 10 AM until 5 PM. @Brion, @Zach, @Nate, myself (@rejon) and Emma (@emma) will be in attendance. Come on out! Lead a session and join in the fun! Since this is an unconference, please arrive at start-time to help set the schedule for the day. Topics for StatusCampLA will be general from technical discussions to micro-blogging standards to general software development practices in usage of Status.Net. We hope you will come out to the event! Please RSVP to this FREE event by sending your name to http://identi.ca/rejon or email jon@status.net. We want to know how much coffee and snacks to bring. I made up a rap for our event: "StatusCheck on the left, who's on deck? StatusCheck to the right, hacking day and night!" Ok, apologies for the cheesiness of that rhyme ;)

StatusCheck

Also note, for all those attending, at 5 PM we will move over to the hotel bar in the lobby to have the first big StatusCheck drink meetup in LA. If you can't make StatusCampLA, surely you can come and relax at do a StatusCheck!

You want to start a StatusCamp?

This is the first StatusCampLA! Its also the third StatusCamp after our successful StatusCampMontreal and StatusCampSF. We want to do more StatusCamps globally and encourage anyone interested in hosting their own StatusCamp, to start one! If you are interested, send me a message at @rejon or via email jon@status.net.

We have shirts, stickers and posters now which I can send to you as a schwag bomb to get you started! Free stuff is cool. Hacking is cooler.

What's your StatusCampLA hashtag?

The hashtag for this event will be #statuscampLA 

Venue

Los Angeles Airport Westin
5400 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045
Phone: (310) 216-5858
Fax: (310) 417-4545

Google Map to the Venue

Westin LAX Hotel, Concourse B

For more information

...and to get some ideas for sessions, please visit: http://statuscamp.org/la