Friends of mine of online and off know my love of cupcakes. I started really turning them out after leaving Parliament Hill–Twitter and baking helped pass the time. Perhaps it was inevitable that I would find the San Francisco and Toronto versions of Cupcake Camp and help bring the unconference to Ottawa on March 29 last year. Over 3000 cupcakes arrived at Jack Purcell Centre that rainy spring afternoon and a bunch of money was raised for a great charity.
So, to answer the many tweets and emails: Yes, Capital Cupcake Camp is coming back!
Last year, @Sobbee, @RantingNRaving, and @Snobiwan (Tanya, Nicole, and Andrew…) and I met week-after-week in coffee shops to pull this event together.
A quick Capital Cupcake Camp primer:
- It’s an open source event
- It’s about cupcakes. No more. No less.
- You can bake them, or just eat them.
- It’s a bit chaotic.
- Milk is served.
Click here for the MediaStyle.ca event round up from last years event.
The biggest lesson I learned from organizing an (un)conference experience was: you can never be too ready. This is where you come in. If you aren’t planning on baking cupcakes this year and have 10 hours or so to spare: our first organizing meeting for version 2.0 will be next Thursday night in Centertown Ottawa–please email me ian [at] mediastyle.ca for all the details.
Last year we raised just over $3000 for Women Alive–And, in 2010 with the cupcake-scene in the Capital just heating up, I’m pretty sure Ottawa is ready to bake harder than ever.
