Diagram for HyperCamp

Now that I have a scanner I can share the diagram I've been drawing for people to explain the HyperCamp concept.

The blogging table is HUGE. Room for up to 100 bloggers (and pros).

At either end there are presentations. They might be boring, if so, no one is obligated to listen.

The room will be LOUD. Lots of schmoozing. No need to go out into the hall to schmooze. (There is no hall.)

Many of the presenters pay for the privilege. Some are given free slots because their ideas are so compelling. It's totally commercial, unlike an unconference. The idea is to put commerce together with the media. This is the press room for the 21st century.

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seanwbohan says:

LOVE IT!

Could there be a rule that after every x presentations, half the assembled has to switch seats - so you get to sit near, hang out with other people? This way every seat is a good seat

sean@seanbohan.com
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

feelingdoingfranny says:

*sigh* This will be on the west coast, I suppose?
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

I suspect the seats in front of the podiums would be empty most of the time. And in general I don't like having rules, because that just creates arguments, but I hadn't thought that people might camp out in seats. I guess it's like the briefing room at the White House, where there's assigned seating. Personally I think the valuable seats will be at the blogging table near the high-prestige bloggers and pros. But who knows until we do one.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

mdrl says:

Crazy thought, but since everyone will have a connected laptop, I wonder if any sort of "audience response system (ARS)" which allowed realtime tabulation of responses to questions would be useful. In dedicated ARS, this is done w/ "clickers," but it could also be done w/ laptops (I'd presume). Occasional "polls" might be interesting.

BTW, no real need for a scanner for diagrams, just take a photo (of the sheet of paper, whiteboard, whatever).
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

alexhwilliams says:

Presenters pay for time at the podium? Would there be presentations other than commercial ones? Idea is for presenters to get in front of a blogger corps? How would it work before the conference? Would there be a list of the presenters?
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

knewman says:

Are people viewing the presentations from the blogging table, or are those circles on left and right also seats? I ask because it looks like on the people at the very end of the blogging table would be able to see.

If there are seats in front of the presentations, alternating sides for the presentations would help with the problem of campers and encourage mingling.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

Knewman, peopla can view presentations from the blogging table via the webcast, as can people outside the room.

The circles in front of the podiums are seats.

The sides don't alternate, they compete. That way speakers don't feel like they own anyone's attention, they understand from the beginning that they have to work for it.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

Awdcast, yes presenters pay for time at the podum, but there would be non-commercial presenters who don't pay. Yes, there would be a list of presenters before the HyperCamp. But don't think of it as a conference, think of it as a pressroom.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

m0nty_au says:

You'd need swivel chairs because if there are two presentations at once you'd get a cricked neck as if you're watching a tennis match. Also, how can you blog and watch a presentation at the same time, given that the speaker is 90 degrees from where your laptop is on the table and you're looking over everyone else's heads? It would be hell on my back and neck.

I thought the reason hallways were good is because you can circulate through them at will, not be stuck sitting next to a boring person?

Having said all that, I'm sure the details would be thrashed out to a satisfactory compromise in practice, and the essential idea is a good one.
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

jhayworth says:

Any chance there could be a dynamic reading list for every blogger in the room? That way, while I'm watching the webcast (from home or my office) I can track what everybody is saying?
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

roland says:

sign me up, see you in berkely :-) !
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Jeff Tidwell says:

High Prestige Bloggers, indeed!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

andybourland says:

Sorry to be a contrarian here, but TWO speakers at once? Why would any speaker sign up to speak to a room of people who are probably ignoring him/her and having to contend with another speaker at the other end of the table?

Besides that, it strikes me as flat out rude to the speaker.

The background commenting is even worse.

Is there no room for civility any more?
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

Ever been to a conference with two tracks. Look at the grid for BloggerCon, we had four discussions going on at the same time, and I don't think it offended anyone. I'm not worried about it.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

herflet says:

Consider blogging this at hypercamp.org? Cheers.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

Mikanboy, of course.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

knewman says:

At the BlogNashville session last year, there were some people off to the side talking loudly among themselves while you were presenting/talking. I thought that it was rude of them as it made it difficult for me to hear you, the person I had shown up to listen to. You asked them (if I remember) to share with the rest of the group but not to try to talk over you.

Is this idea for HyperCamp a change of heart on what's appropriate, or is it just a different setup that accommodates those who want a more chaotic setting? Or are the two not related?

As long as people know what to expect going into it, I don't see how anyone could really object. Now that I read more carefully, this is taking place in a bigger room than I orignally pictured if there is room for a 100-seat table in the center.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

Different context. I can have dinner with friends at a crowded restaurant and it's no bother if people talk at the table next to us.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

Pete Prodoehl says:

This looks good, but I don't have a nice laptop so I may need more desk space so I can bring my iMac...
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

Martijn in Holland says:

Point 2 in the rightbottom corner is an import one...!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

alexmuse says:

Woot
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

txkimmers says:

You will need 4,000 square feet for a conference table or hollow square for 100 people. Probably at least another 1500-2K of square feet for the rest of the set up in your sketch.

Rather than a conference table as you have drawn it, why not a hollow square for 100? Given, that just as is massive, but it might be cool if you had cut-outs in it, so people could walk through it, and put the buffet in the center space, and let the schmoozing take place there. Or put the screens showing the presentations in that space. Or do seating for the table on the inside of the hollow square.

God knows no one will be able to converse across the distance of the HS, so why not use that space, rather than just fill it up with conference table?

Or...do this set x3, on a smaller scale. Like the multiple stages at an outdoor festival. Would still need at least 5K of square feet to make it happen.

This is so none of my business, sorry. But I know a bit about room set ups.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

jimmydan says:

cool idea, lets go!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

John Furrier says:

This idea is very strong...i believe that we will see a derivative of this very shortly...Dave seems to always have his nose on the right 'trails'
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

dgray_xplane says:

COOL idea Dave
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

Shannon Clark says:

Dave, I would second the suggestion for a square - but instead of a full square, I would suggest two U shaped set ups - with a screen and projector in the middle - so something like:

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with the presentations taking place in the middle and the buffets behind each U

this would probably allow for lots of people at the tables (seats on both sides) and might also help provide some cushion against noice in the form of the two screens in the very middle of the u's?

I also like the idea of charging for the presentations, however a serious question.

- Why create a formum and format that assumes a "presentation" is needed to communicate a major point? I would suggest instead describing it as paying for time in the center, with the option of illustrating a point - but equally the option of handing soething out to all present, demonstrating a piece of technoloogy live (not necessarily just via a screen) or otherwise interacting with and engaging the audience of bloggers. I suspect there are many companies that would have stronger demonstrations then any powerpoint deck.

Shannon
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

Startups.in says:

Is there going to be a virtual conferencing session. If not, why does it have to be limited to physical audience?

Regards,
NagB /at/
Startups.in
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

geraldb28 says:

20 mins * 100 bloggers = 2000 minutes = 33 1/3 hours

Even with two tracks rolling simul... 16+ hours.

So, three squares + goodies + drinky poos. Hella expensive!

Tech wise - Apple's new Leopard Server would be a great tool to a) capture it all with Teams and b) the Podcast Server. Need some help on that one? Let me know I've got the angle on it covered for you (but, then, you probably know the same folks I do at Infinite Loop and then some).

Totally doable for the right sponsor $$
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

J Chris A says:

This looks like science fiction to me. The distopian kind. It's a damn sight better than what we actually have these days, so I say go for it. We'll never forget how much better real bloggers are than the pundits this atmosphere will create.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Kate Raynes-Goldie says:

can there be buttons on the table that drop the presenters into a pit if theyre too boring?
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Mickeleh says:

I second the pit-dropping buttons. (Although presenting to a crowd that is actively ignoring you may be enough of a pit in and of itself.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

marccanter says:

where can we smoke joints?
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Mundeemo says:

Don't forget a row of suicide booths — the kind that take PayPal.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

wilokan9 says:

very good idea !! let do it!

my website
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

lottehansen50 says:

Obviously I didn´t make it. I must applause. This setup is absolutely brilliant. Any conference should be done this way.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

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