Preparing for THATCamp Publishing 2011

Amanda French
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:01:32 +0000
General

Hi all — Amanda French here, THATCamp Coordinator and co-organizer (which is rare) of THATCamp Publishing. As we get closer to Sunday, October 30th, I wanted to give you more information about 1) workshops, and 2) proposing sessions.

We’ve currently got four workshops planned: WordPress, Anthologize, Open Journal Systems, and Emerging Ebook Standards. See publishing2011.thatcamp.org/workshops for more information — we’ll add even more in the coming days. Also, we’re thinking about combining the WordPress and Anthologize workshops into one, partly because we’ve planned only three time slots, and having only three workshops would allow us to schedule one workshop per time slot. What’s your opinion? Comment on the blog or the workshops page and let us know. Once we’ve decided that, we’ll put the workshops in the blank schedule for Sunday.

As for proposing sessions, now is the time to start thinking about what you’d like to do or talk about at THATCamp Publishing. If you’re not familiar with the unconference model, you might want to read our About page, but also and especially our page on Proposing a Session. The best way to approach it might be to describe whatever professional problem related to publishing is currently bothering you most, and to pose your session proposal in such a way that you’ll get help with that problem.

To propose a session, log in at publishing2011.thatcamp.org/wp-login.php and write a blog post outlining your session idea. To write and publish your blog post, go to Posts –> Add New, write your post, and then click Publish. Your blog post will be published to the main page of the THATCamp Publishing site, which will allow us all to read and comment on it.

In the first session on Sunday, we’ll all discuss together which sessions we want to hold that day and when, and you’ll have a chance then to propose new sessions or to ask for a particular time slot.

Questions? Write me at info@thatcamp.org. Looking forward to seeing you soon!