Overview

Rachel just pointed out that I forgot to update this once we proposed a new format for the event, I hope this was not too confusing. For information about what the event will be like, please check out the 3Dec2005Agenda which also contains links to a couple of posts that talk about the whats and whys...

Nate Koechley (http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2005/11/28/brainjams-unconference-this-saturday/) wrote a great blog post that really sums it all up simply - please do take a moment to read it.

• Tag for Event: BrainJams3Dec2005

3Dec2005SessionNotes can be found on this page along with links to the maps

Event Details

• Date: Saturday, December 3, 2005 | on Upcoming.org (http://upcoming.org/event/40222/)
• Time: 9am - 4:30pm
• Cost: Register Today (http://www.brainjams.org/regform.html) - Suggested Donation is $10 with contribution options available after registering or from the home page (http://www.brainjams.org/index.html). You might also consider offering to volunteer by emailing us at mailto:volunteer@brainjams.org
• Location: SRI (http://www.sri.com/) Headquarters in Menlo Park
• Address: 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493. The main phone number is 650-859-2000.
• Maps and Directions: SRI's Directions | Yahoo! Maps  | Google Maps   | MSN 
• Public Transportation: SRI is close to Caltrain (http://www.caltrain.org/), SRI's Directions (http://sri.com/contact/maps.html) includes a good description of how to ride the rails to SRI
• Organizer Telephone: (408) 834-0884 or Skype me at chris_heuer
• What is available: WiFi, some power strips, 3 projectors, drinks/snacks, lunch and a bunch of people who will help you succeed.
• What you need to bring: A notebook and pen/pencil for jotting notes and sharing; A laptop for live blogging, searching and demonstrating cool tools; An open mind for receiving and sharing insights with each other
• Ride Share: Anyone needing or offering a RideShareFor3Dec2005 should add your name to this page

Please review the 3Dec2005Agenda

After Party

We will be hitting the upstairs room for an open bar at the British Bankers Club (http://www.britishbankersclub.com/) from 5:15pm till about 7pm. Make sure you find Kristie Wells or Chris Heuer for your ticket to the bottomless cup and we hope to see you all for the BrainOff!

Patrons

These events would not be possible without the generous support of our patrons. For this event we are thankful for the support of:

• SRI http://www.sri.com/
• TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/
• MindJet http://www.mindjet.com/
• Pandora http://www.pandora.com/
• Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com
• Whole Foods http://www.wholefoods.com
• Nate Koechley http://nate.koechley.com/blog/
• William Pietri http://www.scissor.com
• RateItAll http://www.rateitall.com/
• Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor, and Zafman http://www.bstz.com/

Attendees

• Sergey Mirkin (http://www.funkypeer.com/)
• Chris Heuer (http://www.chrisheuer.com/) - Volunteer
• Christopher Allen (http://www.LifeWithAlacrity.com/)
• Rachel M. Murray (http://www.writeonwriteoff.blogspot.com) - volunteer (tech/biz/wherever)
• Nate Koechley (http://nate.koechley.com/blog/) - volunteer / note maker , session leader, website relief for Chris
• Raines Cohen (http://www.raines.com/) - also a nonprofit activist for a quarter century!
• John Furrier (http://www.podtech.net/)
• Justin Lee (http://www.justinlee.name/) - TechiePreneur
• Phil Wolff (http://skypejournal.com/) - editor, Skype Journal
• Keith Teare (http://www.teare.com/) - CEO, Edgeio (http://www.edgeio.com/)
• Lawrence Coburn (http://www.rateitall.com/)
• Tom Blossom (http://www.mindjet.com/)
• Kristie Wells (http://kristiewells.blogspot.com/) - Volunteer Coordinator
• Andy Kaufman (http://myeastbayagent.com/) - Note Maker Extraordinaire
• David Gutelius (http://gutelius.blogspot.com/) - Volunteer
• Rachel Weidinger (http://rachelweidinger.blogspot.com/)-Consultant
• Charles Merriam (http://gizbot.livejournal.com/) - volunteer (note maker, mind maps)
• David Allen
• David Ulevitch (http://david.ulevitch.com/)
• Eddie Codel (http://www.eddie.com/)
• Eric Nehrlich (http://www.nehrlich.com/blog)
• Greg Hochmuth (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zb/)
• Ho John Lee (http://www.hojohnlee.com/)
• Jack Park (http://www.openiris.org/)
• Jennifer Myronuk (http://www.storyfield.com/)
• Joshua Levy (SRI Computer Science Lab (http://www.csl.sri.com/))
• Lerari Toufik
• Mike Prince (http://www.mikeprince.com/)
• Perry Samuel (http://rdvp.org/)
• Sandeep Jain
• Sharlea Payne
• Shreesha Ramdas
• Stefan Nilsson
• William Allison
• William Pietri (http:/www.scissor.com) - Extreme Programming consultant and developer
• Mike Rowehl (http://www.rowehl.com/blog/)
• Rakesh Singh
• Jair (http://www.imaginify.org/)
• L. Koonts
• Shannon Clark (http://www.meshforum.org/)
• Lilia Martinez
• Brian Shields (http://www.thebayareaistalking.com/)
• Brian Sullivan (http://civicevolution.org/)
• Hong Qu (http://www.hongqu.com/)
• David Quiec (http://plunar.blogspot.com/)
• Enoch Choi (pending childcare) (http://www.enochchoi.com/thoughts/)
• Elizabeth Gardner (http://www.yellowhousecoaching.com/)
• Gabe Wachob (http://www.wachob.com/)
• Jim Billings
• Christos Dritsas (http://namedb.net/)
• Kent Brewster (http://www.mindsack.com/)
• Marko Gargenta (http://marakana.com/)
• Nancy Tubbs (http://www.fullcalendar.com/) - volunteer: general/registration
• Nima Dilmaghani
• Samuel Perry (http://rdvp.org/)
• Benjamin Lin (http://www.xanga.com/benjaminlin2)
• Ted Rheingold (http://dogster.com/)
• Andrew Dahley
• Lars Jensen
• Steven Ericsson-Zenith (http://www.stevenzenith.com/) - SEMEIOSIS RESEARCH (http://www.semeiosis.com) - IASE (http://iase.info)
• Irina Slutsky
• Shawn Bolan
• Kennita Watson
• Dani Malik
• Mark Interrante (http://night-hawks.blogspot.com/)
• Mark Carranza
• Jeffrey Miller (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JeffreyMiller) Google developer, Extreme Programming enthusiast
• Nitin Borwankar (http://tagschema.com/) volunteer
• Josh Elman (http://www.zazzle.com/)
• Mark Finnern (http://www.finnern.com/)Will arive at 8:58 with Caltrain and bike. Keep a space for me :-)
• Ramit Sethi (http://www.ramitsethi.com/)
• Brian McCallister (http://blog.skife.org/)