BIL is...

an open, self-organizing, emergent, and anarchic science and technology conference.

Nobody is in charge.

If you want to come, just show up.

If you have an idea to spread, start talking.

If someone is saying something interesting, stop and listen.

Archive for the 'News' Category

BIL on Facebook, Upcoming, Hashtags

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Here’s a list of different places on the web you can find BIL. If you know of more, post it as a comment.

Facebook Group
Facebook Event
Upcoming Event
Hashtags (for tracking what people say about BIL on twitter).

If you use Twitter and want your tweets picked up by Hashtags, go to Hashtags’ twitter page and click “follow.” Now [...]

Added Speakers to Homepage

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

We’ve added some of the speakers who’ve confirmed they’ll be speaking at BIL to the website. If you’re planning on speaking, post your information on the wiki and we’ll add it to the site.

Help us figure out what BIL stands for

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Booze. Intellectuals. Learning.
That’s what we first thought of. But we want it to mean more than that. We’re trying to think up words that start with B, I, and L, and then we’ll have them randomly come together on the homepage. Every time you visit this site, BIL will stand for something else, or at [...]

What is BIL?

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

BIL is to TED, what BarCamp is to FooCamp.
We’re all huge fans of TED. We love that they’ve opened up the TED talks to everyone by putting them online for free. But some of us would like to be more engaged and involved. We want to interact with the presenters and attendees, and share our [...]

Website Launched!

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

We’ve finally put together a website for our conference. There’s still some work that needs to be done on it, but it’s looking good.
This is going to be the marketing website for BIL; the official website is the wiki: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com Use the wiki to sign up, say what you’ll be speaking about, and help organize [...]