The Tribe Conference is a conference for people passionate about building communities. Over the last several years there has been an explosion of grass roots organizations that have been built through connecting people online with the mission of spurring action offline. These communities have developed organically and have consolidated national and international presence through websites, wikis, and branding. The communities are very grass roots and inherently local. As these communities evolve, there is a further need to facilitate a sharing of ideas, best practices, and development of a national community for the growth of all of these movements. The Voodoo Tribe conference mission will be to educate and connect communities, with a focus on the exchange of ideas about common ties of community-building, rather than a focus on what the communities do.
When we look at the ideal time for a conference like this in New Orleans, it fits well with the Voodoo Music Fest which is a great music festival around Halloween each year. The ethos of the music fest fits well with the idea for this conference too. I'd be interested in feedback on whether that timing is a draw or a drawback. We believe people like to come to New Orleans around great events like that to get some of the New Orleans cultural experience in addition to the conference.
The communities we would be interested in reaching out to are the ones that share these common threads:
* unconferences / unorganizations / movements / tribes
* web-based self organization through twitter, facebook, wikis, meetup.com, google groups, etc
* grass-roots but part of a larger national & international movement that people have simply picked up and run with
* Examples: Net Squared, BarCamps, WordCamps, Co-working, Ignite, Social Media Club less
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