B. Mann Consulting

No, really, we want people talking. Northern Voice 2006 is pretty much right around the corner. The official deadline is tomorrow* next week, Wednesday, Nov. 16th. So apply as a speaker. Remember, this is a very "open tent", not necessarily über techie conference. Come and share stories with us in Vancouver. It's going to be the same shareable size -- about 250 people give or take, except that day 1 is Moose Camp -- an open day for special interest groups or just old friends to take over the space. This is not a complete unconference -- maybe you want to organize a mini conference of 10 or 20 people that are all interested in the same subject. Head over to the wiki and self organize (and let us know, and we'll help make sure the word gets out).

I may actually extend this conference and try and gather people together for the week preceding Moose Camp/Northern Voice -- a gathering of open source CMS/Blogging tools to talk about cross platform issues and working more closely together on standards and interoperability. Watch this space for more info (think Vancouver/Whistler in February: how could you NOT want to come?). At the very least, there will likely be a DrupalCon Vancouver 2006. Moose Camp will be the culmination of this event, hopefully as fun as the BarCamp Amsterdam event I attended at Mediamatic. What can I say, I might just be addicted to these things...

This year we did Northern Voice in Vancouver. We had a fantastic time and met a ton of interesting people.

The moose is loose again, as Darren says, as we start planning for the February 2006 edition of of Northern Voice...now with bonus Moose Camp the day before.

Wander over to the site and glory in the all the techie tweaks the other organizers let me roll in this year. I've been so busy that I've managed to only contribute a little to the process so far. But...potluck! I will get this off the ground this time.

What are you waiting for? Clicky-clicky!