It’s really exciting to see the TransitCamp meme spreading around the world! When we hosted the first one in Toronto in February 2006, we had no idea if it would even make a difference to our local issues. Applying the BarCamp ethos to a non-tech problem was an experiment in the power of community, but I’m very glad to say that I think it was a successful one! TransitCampBayArea was actually the third (that we know of), with the second happening in Vancouver on December 8th, 2007. You’ll find a wealth of material on both of those wikis which will help you to organize your own event and to see the kinds of artifacts you can expect it to produce.

The movement is still very much alive in our city: my co-conductors and I wrote an article in HBR, and have been given the support of our new regional transit authority to run a series of Camps around the city.

Good luck! Let me know if there’s anything we can do to help.

BTW tomorrow I will probably hate you cause now I have to document my ideas so I don’t lose them.