RootsCamp On The Horizon
Two Fridays from now, I’ll be leaving to go to RootsCamp in Washington DC. To quote the description, “RootsCampDC is for anyone who played a role in the 2008 elections and/or working in progressive politics. RootsCampDC 2008 will bring together the best and brightest organizers that were engaged in 2008 campaigns.”
It’s still kind of surreal for me to realize this, but I actually qualify for that. I worked on a campaign, I….“played a role”. That’s awesome. And I’m pretty sure they won’t care if you didn’t participate in the elections, but have a sincere interest in the subject matter. I imagine it’s going to be half “look at what we did, and here’s how!”, and half shameless networking. I intend to participate in both of those activities vigorously.
One of the nice parts about these ”-Camp” events is that you can decide whether or not to give a talk with extremely little notice. MobileBarCamp let you post your talk on the board the day of, whenever you wanted. I don’t know if RootsCamp will be quite so fun and fancy free, but I’m thinking about giving a talk, on…something. I’m sure I’ll think of something.
Also, the registration fee is only $10, so that + Megabus tickets both ways + lodging with a friend = $39 total for the entire affair. That’s a price structure I can believe in. I’m pumped for RootsCamp.