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BIL-ding the BIL Community

December 17, 2008

The good folks behind BIL 2009 asked me, Chris Bucchere, to guest post here with some remarks on BIL-ding their community site. (Sorry, I just can’t resist throwing in yet another BIL pun.) First, some background: After leaving my position as Lead Engineer at Plumtree Software, I started my company — bdg — almost six [...]

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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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We need some help with internet connectivity

February 25, 2008

Our biggest problem at the moment is that the facility where we’re having BIL doesn’t have internet. Robert Scoble, who will be filming all the talks, won’t be able to stream them online live if we don’t have at least 300kbs for him. If they can’t be streamed, they’ll be uploaded to a video service [...]

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BIL Sponsors

February 22, 2008

You might have noticed the increase in Sponsor logos on the BIL website. I thought it might be helpful to describe how each sponsor is helping BIL be a success. Singularity Institute – They are covering the cost of the facility for both Saturday and Sunday. Qtask and The Creative Space – These two sponsors [...]

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Over 100 Attendees!

February 21, 2008

We have over 100 people confirm they are attending by adding themselves to the wiki. If you’re attending, but haven’t added yourself to the wiki, please do so now. We’d like to have a pretty accurate estimate of how many people to expect: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/Attendees Also, everyone who’s attending is encouraged to speak. If you have [...]

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