For those who haven’t been following this, the registration for the Cromer Is SO Bracing ’09 unconference is now officially open.
For those of you who’ve expressed an interest, you’ll still need to sign up through the website, please. The first registrant has already signed up!
Thanks to Mr G. S. of Glasgow for this wonderful logo
Eee-urgh. I don’t know what to do! I won’t know if I can come until January, when I know the details of my post-publication publicity. (Try saying that after a few pints.) And I’m too tight to give you £25 on the off-chance. I guess I’ll have to hope there are some late place spaces left…
Surely you’ll be wanting to do plenty of post-publication publicity1 in the intellectual salons of Cromer and Norwich.
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Having looked at the options, a return flight from Edinburgh to Norwich comes in at around £70, which is pretty reasonable.
Will there be any program for accompanying partners?
..and children?..
The program will be very much as we make it. I know Mrs Gee, Gee Minor and Minima will want to get involved. Just tell me what you’d like to do and we’ll see what we can organize.
Aha, an un-program for accompanying partners and children.
I’m looking forward to this conference and the un-program.
I nominate Mrs Gee for keynote speaker.
I nominate Mrs Gee for keynote speaker
I second the nomination.
And I’m happy to help with any un-conference and un-program planning and execution.
Yikes, this is getting even more engaging by the [insert a time period].
I look forward to seeing the list of registrants, in due course.
There’s lots to do in and around Cromer for partners and kids.
On the Sunday, Mrs Gee says that Kristi can show us how to crochet invertebrates (Gee Minor is very keen to learn how to make a sea urchin) at the dining table at the Maison Des Girrafes. I am also hoping to get a small geological field trip to the important Mid-Pleistocene site at West Runton, just up the road from here.
A geological field trip sounds excellent, Henry.
I’ll bring the necessary yarn, beads, and other supplies to make sea urchins and other invertebrates, and maybe try to write a simple pattern. I have no worries about England being suddenly craft supply-less, in any case, so if I forget to bring something, I can find it in Cambridge before the CISB. I taught my nephew to do very basic crochet when he was six or seven (though he didn’t stick with it – he was merely temporarily intrigued with the process). I think children (and adults, for that matter) who are good at, or intrigued by, geometry and other maths tend to like crochet and knitting.
I now have six registrants – Erika, Kristi, Graham, Martin, Karen and Frank. It’s shaping up to be a very friendly and relaxed meeting.
I think in the spirit of un-conferenceness, Mrs Gee could be a keynot speaker.