Spring’s here! The flowers are a-bloom all over the place in San Francisco, and so is Stamen 🙂 Here are some notes about upcoming events we’ll be participating in:
MoveOn Town Hall Meeting:
The US presidential election is a year and a half away, but the campaigns are already in full swing. Stamen is working with MoveOn.org on a new and improved version of the online map-based live conference tool we built for them in ’04, for a series of three upcoming national town hall meetings.
The first live online meeting, on April 10, will bring the upcoming presidential candidates together for a conversation about Iraq. The next two will focus on global warming and health care. You can vote on which candidates you’d like to see participate until midnight EST tonight, so if you’re interested in participating in this conference, please do so today. There’s also a set of conference slides from our presentation on the Town Halls which we gave at Where 2.0 in ’05, for those who’d like to know more about the map and how it works (and why we think it’s cool).
OFFF in Barcelona
Shawn Allen, Ben Cerveny and I will be in Barcelona for OFFF, talking about some of our more recent work and showing an enhanced suite of projects in the main hall at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. We’ll be presenting alongside people like: John Maeda, Eric Natzke, Graffiti Research Lab, Josh Davis, Neville Brody, Universaleverything, and more, so it should be alot of fun.
xTech in Paris
Mike Migurski and Tom Carden will be presenting “You’re older than you’ve ever been, and now you’re even older, and now you’re older still: a talk about time.” at xTech in Paris, on May 18. This is another good one: they’ll be there alongside Aaron Straup Cope, Håkon Wium Lie andSimon Willison, so we’re hoping some interesting conversations come out of this trip.
Where 2.0 in San Jose
Following the xTech presentation on time, I’ll be talking about how the time-based visualization issues Stamen has been dealing with in many of its projects at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, on May 29.
Phew. Busy around here! Of course, you could head over to Matt Biddulph’s fascinating new travel-sharing project dopplr and figure out our schedules, but you’d have to find each of our profiles, and who has time for that…hey Matt, can we have a Stamen group on Dopplr?