Crowdsourcing Work

May 10, 2010 5:00 PM - 91 attended

The Distributed Distributed Work Meetup

No location was chosen

Because I love a technical challenge and distributed work this meetup is going to be in at least four locations at once! We have some awesome speakers in different locations and we're going broadcast between them.

Because of time zone issues West coast will start with talks and then have mingling later, while east coast will start with mingling and end with talks.

As usual we have a set of speakers that I really respect and I'm very excited to hear from, and as usual, they cover a range of business, art, academic and social issues around distributed work/crowdsourcing.

We also have Jeff Howe speaking - the Wired writer who coined the term "crowdsourcing".

Speakers:
Brent Frei, CEO SmartSheet, Author of Paid Crowdsourcing
Fred Benenson, Kickstarter, Translated Moby Dick into Emoji using Mechancial Turk
Alek Felstiner, Berkeley Law (Boalt)
Jeff Howe, Harvard

Locations:

Seattle 5pm-8pm
WhitePages.com headquarters
1301 Fifth Ave
Seattle, WA

San Francisco 5pm-8pm
99 designs SF Office
Pier 38, Suite 315
San Francisco, CA

Boston 7pm-10pm
MIT Media Lab
Building E-14 Room 633
75 Amherst
Cambridge MA

New York 7pm-10pm
drop.io
68 Jay Street #413
Brooklyn, NY

Dana
I'm thinking of heading to either San Fran or Boston... does anyone who organizes or who's been to these previously have any suggestions?

Posted May 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM
Stephanie Geerlings
A note about the time differences:

West coast will start the speakers immediately at 5pm PST and mingle afterwards.

East coast will meet and greet for an hour. The speakers start at 8pm EST.

Posted May 10, 2010 at 8:46 AM
Stephanie Geerlings
If you're attending the meetup in New York, note it is at the Drop.io offices in Brooklyn. We'll have soft couches, beer and some food for you!

Posted May 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM
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