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BIL Mid-Year Meetup

by billerickson on May 21, 2009

We’re almost halfway between BIL:2009 and BIL:2010 and we thought it’d be a great idea to have a mid-year meetup to announce a few projects some BILders have been working on.

If you’re in San Francisco, join us at 21st Amendment on Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 6PM. We want to get all previous and future BILders to come out and share their thoughts and perhaps get some work done.

Here’s the Facebook Event

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Important Info

by billerickson on February 6, 2009

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Revision3 Filming BIL

by billerickson on December 30, 2008

Photo by Scott Beale

When we asked BIL’ders how best to improve BIL, the #1 response was “record the talks and put them online.”

Last year we did have Robert Scoble livestreaming the event through his cell phone and Qik, and Adrian Cockcroft posted the audio from some of the talks.

This year we wanted to provide high quality video, and luckily the great guys at Revision3 agreed to help out. They will be filming the talks in the main room and posting them online afterwards. This means the community’s favorite talks will be shared in high quality on our website, Revision3′s site, iTunes, and a few other locations.

BUT, we still need people to bring cameras to film the talks in the smaller rooms. If this is something you might be interested in doing, sign up at the wiki. You can do as little or as much filming as you want. For example, if you’re in a talk and you see no one filming it, pull out your camera and film it.

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You're invited to BIL2009

December 29, 2008

(We just sent this out as an email to those who signed up for our mailing list. I’m posting it here as well for those who didn’t receive it.) Hello! You’re receiving this email because you signed up at http://bilconference.com BIL is an ad-hoc conference for people changing the world in big ways. It’s a [...]

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Voting for Talks

November 11, 2008

We recently integrated some software from The Social Collective to power the BIL Community. These new additions on our site allow you to connect with other BIL attendees and submit or vote on proposals for talks at BIL2009. Additionally, it allows you to discuss the conference (or whatever) using its own messaging mechanism that’s also [...]

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New Website

October 22, 2008

BIL has a new web presence! Thanks to Always Creative for the design, Markup Ninjas for coding it, Bill Erickson for integrating WordPress, and Downtown Cartel for hosting. Also, thanks to The Social Collective for our BIL Community site, which should be released in a few weeks. And of course, thanks to everyone who made [...]

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Singularity Summit

October 2, 2008

The Singularity Institute is holding the Singularity Summit, a dialog on the impact of dramatically accelerating technological change. The Singularity Institute was one of the early supporters of BIL, and an excellent forum for discussing world-changing ideas. The speakers and attendees of the Summit are the movers and shakers who will guide technological progress in [...]

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We're capping attendance

February 29, 2008

We had no idea BIL would be this popular when we started planning. Our facility holds 150 people, and at the time we didn’t consider that there’d be more people interested. Per the request of the facility manager, we’re capping attendance at 150 people and no longer adding people to the attendance list. If you [...]

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Looking for Musicians

February 28, 2008

Between some of the talks we’d like to have some musicians play. If you are interested, add yourself to the UnConcert wiki page

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Things we need!

February 27, 2008

As we get closer to BIL, we’re updating the wiki page Things We Need! If you can help out by providing any of these, edit the page and say what you can provide. We’re still looking for sponsors to cover all the little unexpected and logistical expenses. If your company would like to sponsor BIL, [...]

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