Launch Party Vancouver, MobileCampVancouver, National Digital Media Day (and others I'll leave out in the interests of brevity) and now BarCampVancouver2008. September continues to be action packed with events and conferences. BarCamp Vancouver kicks off with a party at WorkSpace (wines sponsored by Farmstead, thanks) this Friday September 26, 2008 and then starts at 9:30 a.m. at Granville Island on Saturday September 27, 2008. Get your creative, tech, hat on and throw your hat in and "dis-coordinate" a session. Newbies, old hands and everybody in between all welcome! Some great session ideas after the jump to whet your appetite but as per the unconference stylee the schedule won't be finalized until the schedule jam Saturday morning at 10 a.m.

Just a quick reminder that tonight is DemoCampVancouver04. The fourth in the series of DemoCampVancouvers inspired by the DemoCamp in Toronto. Come one come all to WorkSpace at 21 Water Street from 5:30p.m.-7:30p.m.

Kaliya announces that she is helping to unconference an Identity Open Space in Vancouver in July (aka IOSVan):

I am excited there will be open space identity event in the northwest that will provide an opportunity for Identity Gang participants in the region along with the Web 2.0 development community and the social good techies there to come together with Liberty Alliance participants and broaden the dialogue around the technical and social issues surrounding user-centric identitiy. This is NOT the next IIW that will be in November.

The Identity Open Space is being jointly produced by the Internet Identity Workshop and Liberty Alliance July 20-21 in Vancouver Canada.

I'm:

• excited that this is taking place in Vancouver -- thanks to the Liberty Alliance and local Sun representative Lauren Wood
• happy that Kaliya is being unconference woman and will undoubtly do a good job
• signed up already
• might not be able to go because I've had an unexpected trip to Germany come up...doh! I'll update this as I figure out my travel

So, if you want to get plugged into the Identity community and learn about the tangled web of protocols, specifications, and standards, go register. See the wiki for more information.

The BarCamp Amsterdam 2005 video I made is now on Google Video. Check it out: BarCamp Amsterdam 2005 People on Google Video.

Awesome panorama! Thanks Nadya!