The weekend of October 17th and 18th is quickly approaching, below you’ll find a rough schedule of how the unconference will be framed time-wise.

Our venue is fabulous and has lots of large, open spaces for sessions, project work, and food. There will be ample power, wifi and collaborative areas where developers, creatives, and everyone else will be able to easily work together and make themselves comfortable.

Saturday:

• 8am Breakfast and Socializing
• 9am Welcome to #PubCamp and session planning
• 10am Breakout Sessions (1-hour long segments)
  
• 12pm Lunch
• 1:30pm Breakout Sessions and open-space meetings (1-hour long segments)
  
• 5:30pm Happy Hour! (sponsorship opportunities available)
  

Sunday:

• 8am Breakfast
• 9am Day 1 recap and Day 2 session planning
• 10am 2-hour Power Sessions
• 12pm Lunch
• 1pm Sessions and open-space meetings (1-hour long segments)
  
• 5:30pm Post-camp next steps for organizers and attendees

This schedule can, and will change and feel free to leave your feedback on how we’ve set things up in the comments section below.

We’ve been wondering, what happens when you combine 100 developers, 100 public media supporters, and 100 people who work for public broadcasting companies? At PBS, we hope that mashup of people from different backgrounds will result in some amazing ideas, plans, and prototypes.

Across the country, PBS stations are struggling with reduced budgets and staff – and yet, their mission hasn’t changed. They’re still tasked with engaging audiences with thoughtful, educational content in their local communities. By starting the Public Media Camp movement we’d like to help them build additional support through innovative products and partnerships.

The Washington DC area has an immense technology community, and being home to PBS, NPR, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting makes this an ideal spot to kick off the Public Media Camp movement. While we’re working hard on making sure that the local event is a success, we hope that you will help us take the show on the road and support our many stations across the country.