April 18.2009

Grainger Hall, UW Madison,
Madison, WI
Event Website

On Saturday, April 18, 2009 a FREE event at UW Madison's Grainger Hall, OpenCamp: An Open Everything Event is a unique opportunity that gathers people interested in using 'openness' and provides the ability to network, discussion, teach, and learn on how to create, improve, and make more accessible— art, education, software, government, media, neighborhoods, workplaces— the very society we live in.

The event will challenge the future. From the economic meltdown, to access to research, to remixing content, there is a rising tide of rebellion against the confines of the inapplicable growth of property protection versus the freedoms to innovate.

Sponsored by Open Madison Group (OMG!), Students for a Free Culture @ UW, and Madison's Nonprofit Technology Group (MadTech) aspires to take the challenge of Barack Obama to heart, "We must use all available technologies and methods to open up government, to create new levels of transparency in the way business is conducted."