WalkMesh - Walkabout in San Francisco June 15th

I would like to invite anyone interested in MeshForum, networks, design, and visual thinking to join me on June 15th for an new way to hold a conference, a bit of exercise both mental and physical, and a great way to spend a day in the city of San Francisco.

WalkMesh will be the first of what I hope will be a series of Walkabouts, conferences held in motion, with stops along the way.

If you are interested in helping shape WalkMesh, please join me in planning it, leave comments here and watch this space for links to how to participate. Everything about WalkMesh is open to discussion. A few initial framing plans.

The plan is to walk, but also to stop frequently at a series of engaging spaces. These will be opportunities for new people to join us.

We will likely end the day at the Brainjam's event scheduled for the evening of June 15th, where (and when) we start and where we stop along the way is open to discussion.

I hope that each of you not just attends and participates but also invites others to join us, as a walk outside we can be as small or as large as we want to be, I'd love to have lots of engaging, interesting people join us.

For this first WalkMesh, donations or contributions are optional, but also a matter to discuss, with a little bit of contributions we can help organize and pay for items such as a small gift/token/memento for all who participate, transportation options for anyone who doesn't/can't walk but wants to join us at the stops along the way, and meals and beverages along the way - as well as any admission fees/tickets needed (group rates on trolley tickets for example or for a future WalkMesh a ferry ride).

All I ask, however, for this first WalkMesh is that if you want to join us you bring a pen (or pens), a stack of notecards and a binder clip, good walking shoes, money (and if the weather suggests it a light jacket and/or umbrella - we'll go rain or shine, fog or clear skies, though in the case of rain our schedule might adjust as necessary). Cameras are also welcome. For most people, I'd suggest leaving your computers at home - letting us focus on the experiences in front of and around us. We'll likely use cell phones, flickr and email to note where we are/where we are heading for anyone trying to meet up with us.

If there is sufficient time and funding (sponsors or donations) I'd like to arrange for WalkMesh travel bags and/or t-shirts etc - in no small part so that we can tell who is participating (or at least who contributed).

If your company or organization would like to join us and/or host us as a stop along the way, please post a comment here or contact me directly. As the details firm up I'll update this post and post more details, including a registration page.