I was recently asked: “Is the plan still to have no rules during Ephemerisle, or does having it in the SF bay mean that there will have to be some rules?”
I replied:
There will definitely have to be rules based on US safety laws / Coast Guard regulations. There may be other rules as well.
Volunteer Heidi Lein, who made the Conference flyer, has also created a print advertisement for us (PDF). Good for cubicle decoration at work!
Volunteers Helen Lein (designer) and Chris Rasch (conference organizer) made us this great flyer (PDF). We’ll be postering parts of Stanford and UC Berkeley with it, and of course y’all should feel free to post it anywhere in real or virtual space. The image links to a larger PDF.
Like libertarians, or economists.
This morning I took a leadership class that used the principles from Made To Stick, a fascinating book about what I’d call “memetic engineeering”. The authors try to figure out what makes some ideas spread so fast, even when they are false (like urban legends), so that those principles can be applied to spread important true ideas.
