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You’ve heard of conferences – but have you heard of unconferences? In the web tech world, these spontaneous unstructured events are becoming more and more popular with developers looking to share information and expertise.

With all the exciting new things happening at PBS, we’ve teamed up with NPR, and the American University Center for Social Media to host our own unconference, called PublicMediaCamp, in Washington, DC on October 17^th and 18^th, 2009. 

PublicMediaCamp is free to attend, sessions will be created and planned live during the event itself, and the entire event will be supported by sponsors.

PublicMediaCamp is meant to bring together technologists, citizen journalists, marketers and other members of the public to support local PBS and NPR stations in substantive ways like creating marketing campaigns, or building a mashup of public media APIs. Emphasis will be placed on collaborating, building, and talking about “grand ideas” to kickoff  a series of similar events around the U.S. that will bring together local public broadcasting stations and their communities.

As we all work together to bring this idea to fruition we invite your questions, comments, and ideas. What do you think of PublicMediaCamp and the “unconference” idea? For more information as the event draws nearer, sign-up for the mailing list at http://pubcamp.eventbrite.com.