Dan Grigsby

I’m pleased to announce PublicRadioCamp, a new community event from Minnesota Public Radio and MinneBar/MinneDemo.

Minnesota Public Radio produces tons of really interesting content, data, audio, meta-data and feeds. PublicRadioCamp will be a day spent collaboratively remixing and mashing up these goodies.

In addition to their public feeds and data-sources, we’ll have the same highly-granular access to audio-clips, transcriptions, photos, etc. used by their own newsroom. Their newsroom uses them to create their on-air and web-stories. What could you do with them?

Details

What/When/Where: PublicRadioCamp will be held on Saturday, July 12 starting at 9:00am at MPR’s studios in the UBS Forum.

Who: It’s for you if mashups like Chicago Crimes, Twittervision or Google’s close-captioned powered TV search inspire you; if you’re passionate about social-technology applied to news and cultural coverage; if you want to explore remix-culture or you want to explore what’s behind the radio and web content MPR produces.

Internet access and lunch will be provided by ipHouse.

Expect studio tours and other goodies. Details forthcoming.

RSVP

Please RSVP by adding yourself to the wiki.

I met Pete Forde of Unspace at E-Tech a couple of years ago. At the time they were Canada’s first Ruby On Rails shop and boasted their own flavor of agile development.

I was interested enough in their angle on agile to make a trip to Toronto to see how they worked, managed projects, selected clients, etc.

Today, Unspace is Canada’s First — capital F — Ruby On Rails shop and the organizers of the upcoming RubyFringe conference (where I’m speaking).

What’s more, they’ve refined further their development process. Coming the point of this post: you can see some of what they do captured in this blog post by Daniel Haran, who spent a couple of weeks working along side them.