From SkeptiCamp
SkeptiCamps are informal, community-organized conferences borne from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. Everyone from casual skeptics to the experienced participate, give talks and get to know each other.
Contemporary science-oriented skepticism encourages each of us to avoid self-deception by understanding the hazards of faulty reasoning and to accept beliefs provisionally based upon the most reliable evidence.
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SkeptiCamp is a child of BarCamp, the wildly-successful open conference format from the tech world. Where BarCamp focuses on technology, SkeptiCamp instead focuses on critical thinking, science and the large variety of topics of interest to skeptics.
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SkeptiCamp emphasizes the participation of everyone, from the first-time speaker to the experienced hand. If there’s an event planned in your community, consider giving a presentation on a topic that drives your passion for science and skepticism. Alternatively, help with the event's organization. At the very least, be an active participant and engage the speakers and your fellow attendees.
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These events can be organized by anyone, including yourself. However, we strongly encourage first-time organizers to simplify and focus on participation.
Much has been learned from the hundreds of BarCamps that can address the typical challenges we face in organizing these events. The experiences of other organizers, documented both at the BarCamp site as well as in this wiki can serve as a reliable guide in organizing your group's own SkeptiCamp event.
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A SkeptiCamp is not your typical skeptic conference. It will differ in three key ways:
1. Openness - anyone with something to contribute or a desire to learn is welcome and invited to participate. Topics are chosen not by the organizers, but rather by their presenters.
2. Participation - because admission is free (or at nominal cost) we ask that everyone contribute in some way, either by giving a talk or helping to put the event together. At the very least we ask that attendees interact with speakers and other attendees.
3. Collaboration - by distributing the organizing effort amongst many, no one person carries too large a burden. By sharing one's experiences as an organizer (in this wiki, e.g.) we can avoid repeating mistakes and instead build upon our successes.
As with BarCamp, these work in concert to distribute knowledge within communities of skeptics, placing intense and substantive events within reach of informal groups of skeptics anywhere around the world.
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