""Choosing our Future is an innovative joint planning initiative of the City of Ottawa, the City of Gatineau, and the National Capital Commission. The goal of this multi-year project is to help Canada’s Capital Region face the challenges of the 21st century, and integrate concepts of sustainability and resiliency into all facets of regional planning and design." September 22-26, 2009 ..."

"More on tagging: it would be great if you can also use the tag changecamp so that we'll be able to aggregate all the info from the events across the country under that tag. There are also a bunch of places you can post photos - ideally to Flickr of course so we can aggregate them by tag - and in Flickr there is also a ChangeCamp group pool you can add to http://www.flickr.com/groups/972921@..."

"Thanks to all the volunteers - things really went smoothly thanks to your help. A particular shout out to the wiki gardeners who got the grid up and updated at record speed, despite the balky changecamp.ca wiki platform."

"We're looking forward to rich social media coverage. For Twitter, please use hashtag #cco09 For all other social media, please use tag cco09 There is an additional feature on Flickr that allows Upcoming integration. If you add the tag upcoming:event=2464545 it will display a "photo taken at ChangeCamp Ottawa" badge."

"Sure Rebecca. The volunteers will be gathering the day of, before the event."

"(Cross-posted from original sent by Ian Capstick to all EventBrite attendees.) ChangeCamp Ottawa participants, A quick call out for some specialized help we need on Saturday. We are holding one last ChangeCamp meeting at City Hall on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. for 20 ChangeCamp participants who would like to help run the event. We need help with: Registration/Set-Up Team: five participants to..."

"I'm not sure about prices, but the Ottawa downtown core is very compact - any hotel in the downtown core will be at most a 15-20 minute walk to City Hall. I think probably the physically closest hotel is the Westin."

"Slide presentation (with audio) by Mark Kuznicki, founder of ChangeCamp, about how he got started doing citizen engagement unconferences http://www.slideshare.net/remarkk/social-web-social-change-and-the-return-of-community"

"For a rough overview of how things will work, see http://wiki.changecamp.ca/ChangeCampTO_Event/Event_Design - please note, while this is similar to our event, we will have our own approach based on our space. An overview will be provided at the beginning of the day."

"The rough agenda looks something like this * 8:30-9:00 Registration & Info * 9:00-9:30 Event Opening - guidance, rules, housekeeping * 9:30-10:00 Agenda building * Breakout Groups o 10:30-11:15 o 11:15-12:00 * 12:00 - 1:00 Catered Lunch * Breakout Groups o 1:00-2:00 o 2:00-3:00 o 3:00-4:00 o 4:00-4:45 *..."

"This is not a complete list, but our sponsors include: City of Ottawa http://www.ottawa.ca/ , digitalOttawa http://www.digitalOttawa.ca/ , NeoInsight http://www.neoinsight.com/ , Pathable http://www.pathable.com/ , Remarkk Consulting http://www.remarkk.com/ , Peapod Studios http://www.peapod.ca/ , and Apolitic http://www.apolitic.com/"

"Just a reminder that we will have a donation box for the Food Bank at the event. http://www.theottawafoodbank.ca/"

"Pollen count might be an interesting one to crowdsource for a city (although I don't know whether you need specialised equipment to do it). When I was researching pollen count (e.g. as reported on the Weather Channel) for a friend who has allergies, I discovered they actually collect very very few data points. Almost all of the "pollen count" is actually based on their model of what..."

"Mark will be speaking at Social Media Breakfast #9 on May 6. You can sign up (it's $11) at http://smbottawa9.eventbrite.com/ I believe the plan is for Mark to also be at our organising meeting that evening. You can find more about Social Media Breakfast through the Twitter hashtag #smbottawa and Mark is on Twitter as @remarkk It has been great to have Mark's support as we've been organisin..."

"I just realised probably not everyone knows the background of ChangeCamp, or the format of an unconference, so here is a very brief explanation: the unconference idea is that people *at the event* decide what sessions will take place. We will have about 50 slots for sessions I think (10 tracks, 5 time slots). At the event, in the morning, anyone can stand up, *very quickly* pitch their sessio..."

"I really like the idea of being able to visualise commute times on a map - http://www.triptropnyc.com/ does a great job of this for New York, using subway and walking data. Beyond that, you can add a layer that shows available real-estate, so you can say "I want to find a place that costs X, that is a Y minute commute from my workplace at 123 Main Street, show me all the options". M..."

"Do we have good enough http://www.openstreetmap.org/ data for Ottawa? How could we ensure a sustainable creation and maintenance of this data? Or can we get the best data directly from the city?"

"Morgen and I have been working with Jon Udell's elmcity calendar aggregation project, the initial calendar is up, you can see it with the other calendars and all the options at http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/ or see just the HTML of the calendar at http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/ottawacals/html A few things 1. We could use more "calendar curators" - people who identify sources of..."

"Just on the "where the really bad potholes are", there is http://www.fixmystreet.ca/ for Ottawa, although Mark or other city people would have to respond about how the city plans to deal with the fixmystreet reports."

"There has been quite a bit of discussion about the concept of "ChangeLab" in the planning meetings. We've agreed to keep the idea, but as an integrated part of the event, not as a separate room or track. In general it's the idea of supporting the more technical side of things: coders, developers, web site designers, mashup-ers. There is an area along the side of the Council Chamber..."

"We plan to briefly discuss our StimulusWatch.ca project and then have a broader discussion about the issues around access to Federal government data to enable mashups, visualisations and reporting in general. People with similar ideas and sites are welcome to join us as facilitators. Facilitatiors: Richard Akerman, Morgen Peers, Laura Wesley"

"What information and services could and/or should the City of Ottawa be offering that capitalize on the power of web 2.0 and social media tools. Discussing ideas for new web-based services and information sharing, based on best practices from other governments, private sector, and public domain developments. Facilitator: Mark Faul"

"Councillors and senior City management will need some basic terms and conditions that can kick start participation, especially online. What do they need to connect our engagement with real decision making? Facilitator: David Hume"