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Welcome to the National Council on Disability Unconference Wiki

The National Council on Disability is an independent federal agency committed to disability policy leadership. This unofficial website is devoted to helping all of us as citizens self-organize our Spring 2014 quarterly meeting in the San Francisco Bay area as an "unconference." Please help us make the meeting a success.

May 4-6, San Francisco Bay Area

NCD's quarterly meeting will be held Sunday through Tuesday, May 4 - 6, 2014. The venue is yet to be chosen, but may be the Ed Roberts Campus in Oakland. We've chosen to add a west coast flavor to the meeting, using the "unconference"  as a way to encourage more community involvement, and to make the transfer of information less unidirectional than a traditional meeting. This community-editable wiki page is designed to help all of you help us create a successful meeting by self-organizing the conference and creating most of the sessions and conversations yourselves. We're shamelessly plagarizing a lot of the structure of the conference itself and the content of these pages from the O'Reilly Media "Foo Camp" conferences and the wiki pages that they have used to organize the very successful Sci Foo , Health Foo , and others. 

Be Prepared to Demo or Speak

This conference will be as good as the participants make it. Be prepared to lead or participate in a session, ask interesting questions, show off what you're working on, and generally leave your mark. Like Burning Man our goal is that there be no spectators, only participants (hopefully with less dust). 

We'll put most of the program together on Sunday evening at about 7:30 pm. That's your first chance to sign up to lead a session. We'll save some slots on Saturday afternoon and Sunday for those who arrive late or get inspired as the weekend transpires. We'll have a variety of spaces for sessions–-small-to-large conference rooms, open areas, and meeting-room-sized tents outdoors. While we've already been getting requests from various groups to be part of the agenda, note that as of right now there is no one with a pre-assigned slot (even for the Council Members who are organizing the conference!)

Schedule, Sessions, and Activities

Attendees

If you choose, please let us know that you are attending, and provide links to your projects, twitter handle, etc.

Accessibility Plan

As you may note above, this type of conference is an experiment for NCD, and one that potentially raises many questions around accessibility. In the past, such questions have occasionally pointed toward not doing something as a solution to the difficulty in carrying it off and making it accessible. We're determined not to let that happen here, and we believe that an unconference experience is one that can be a very positive one for everyone, despite our various challenges. One of the challenges is budget, and with an acknowledgement of that constraint, we'd like to present some proposed solutions to the various accessibility issues that accompany trying to hold four or more simultaneous conversations on different disability issues. Please check out the NCD Unconference Accessibility Plan , and contribute if you find it lacking.

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