Comments on: BathCamp reflections

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:36:52 +0000

Just to update this comments thread, Mia has created a digital heritage ning (ad hoc social network) to look at how we can start organising a MuseumCamp.

By: Mia

Mia — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:05:36 +0000

I think it’s important that we don’t expect people to shell out from their own pockets, however it’s done.

We could start polling possible participants about whether work/non-work week/weekend works better for them – a lot of it probably depends on how far they’d have to travel and how many personal commitments they have.

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Bathcamp 2008 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:46:19 +0000

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By: Ruth

Ruth — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:44:19 +0000

I’m absolutely up for helping out on this.

I kinda think the opposite to Mia in terms of work time/free time: If we want to encourage museums to pay their staff’s expenses, then we’d need to avoid taking them away from work as far as possible.

Also, the format works well at a weekend because you don’t feel as pressurized to come away from it with a Formal Learning Objective achieved. There’s more room for play, and for free thinking, and going to sessions that might be at the very edge of your understanding, rather than playing safe all the time…

Feels more like a giant sleepover if you do it at the weekend, too – and you feel more inclined to enjoy yourself – well, I did anyway.

By: Mia

Mia — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:13:48 +0000

I’m very up for a DigitalHeritage or MuseumCamp, but then I would be. I get so much out of face-to-face contact with other cultural heritage geeks, and I’d love to learn from curators, educators, marketers, specialists, visitor assistants, etc, too. Perhaps it could be before an MCG meeting and a summary could be reported back, much liked the mashed museum days.

Maybe we could try to find some solid examples of actual benefits or projects that have come out of bar camps to help convince managers to send their staff along.

I know there was some debate about whether it should be in work time or in free time, but having it in work time makes it a lot easier for people to fit into their presumably busy lives and also helps with their expenses. I imagine attendees would still be a self-selecting group with enough initiative to come along.