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Tinderbox is a personal content assistant that helps you visualize, analyze, and share your notes.

Tinderbox Weekend

Tinderbox Weekends are designed to offer a place for Tinderbox users to meet, learn, and exchange ideas. This is a chance to meet the developers and have your questions answered by the experts.

Tinderbox Weekends are intimate gatherings focused on sharing and collaboration. Each weekend combines fresh talks, discussions, and tutorials that explore facets of using Tinderbox creatively, efficiently, and imaginatively in a variety of creative professional contexts. We always have plenty of free time for answering questions and sharing problems.

London: May 8-9, 2010

At the Rookery Hotel, Peter's Lane, Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6DS. (Map) (The nearest subway station is Farringdon, two minutes walk away.)

• Incremental Formalization (Stacey Mason)
• Towards A Grammar of Tinderbox Maps (Mark Bernstein)
• Emberlight (J. Nathan Matias)
• Robert Brook
• Writing a Broadway Musical (Michael Bywater)
• Mark Anderson

We’ll be meeting in the Drawing Room. We start promptly at 10am on Saturday.

At most Tinderbox Weekends, we like to meet informally for a group dinner Saturday evening. It’s by no means mandatory, but it’s a great way to get to know other Tinderbox users—these tend to be some of the most interesting people you’ll meet! If you can’t attend the weekend but would be interested in joining the dinner, do drop us an email and we’ll let you know when and where.

Things we’ll have available:

• WiFi
• A projector
• A few connectors (dongles) but it’s always good to have your own
• Coffee/light food
• Power strips for your laptops
• A CD handout

Things you should bring:

• Your laptop (not required, but many people like to have it)
• Any Tinderbox questions or problems you’d like resolved—we love a sticky problem!

Speakers and program subject to change without notice. Refunds allowed more than 30 days in advance, less a $50 processing fee. No refunds after 30 days before the event. Multiple attendees from the same organization receive a 25% discount.

Specials!

Support Tinderbox Weekend by purchasing a Tinderbox Remote Membership.

For 2010, we’ve revamped and expanded the Tinderbox Weekend CD. For $35, you'll get handouts and support materials with dozens of sample files, screencasts, and presentations.

Quantities are extremely limited.

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BOSTON: March 13-14, 2010

Night falls over Kandahar, Afghanistan. Photo: Alex Strick van Linschoten

Theme: Tinderbox for Law, Journalism, and Public Policy

Scheduled speakers include:

• Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn: Terrorists and Talibs — How To Handle The Networks with Tinderbox
• Stacey Mason: Secrets of Tinderbox
• John Stephan: Tinderbox and Litigation
• Steve Winnick: Summary Judgment — Tinderbox and Case Management
• Mark Bernstein: Getting More From Tinderbox Maps
• Tom Lowe: Statutory Interpretation – Graphical and Textual Representations as an Aid to Learning and Practice
• Mark Anderson: Complex Networks and the Afghan COIN Map

Previously: San Francisco, CA

November 21-22, 2009

Planned sessions include

• More Effective Tinderbox Maps: Frontiers (Mark Bernstein)
• Tinderbox In And Out of Court: One Judge's Approach (Hon. Thomas Smith)
• Tom Webster (Edison Research): Necessary Tangents: An Organic Inquiry into Consumer Behavior with Tinderbox
• Integrating Tinderbox with your iPhone (Dr. Jonathan Leavitt)
• Understanding Tinderbox Agents (Mark Anderson, Shoantel)
• Tinderbox 5 and Beyond (Mark Bernstein)

Previously: Tinderbox Weekend London

• London, England: May 9-10, 2009

Featuring:

• Mark Bernstein: Dashboards, Timelines, and Cookbooks
• Robert Brook: Delivering Public Information
• Mark Anderson: Tinderbox Export
• Michael Bywater: Plotting a novel in Tinderbox
• J. Nathan Matias: Collaborative Tinderbox

Rookery Hotel, Peter's Lane, Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6DS. We start promptly at 10am on Saturday.

Previously: Tinderbox Weekend San Francisco

At the Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter Street

• Tinderbox designer Mark Bernstein
• Doug Miller: Using Tinderbox to Support Web Application Development (Tinderbox and Rails: cool!)
• Cathy Marshall: Roots of Spatial Hypertext
• Michael P. Fitzhugh: Tinderbox Noting The News
• Rosemary Simpson (Brown University): Hypertext '07 A Virtual Trip Report In Tinderbox
• Bill Humphries (Linden Labs): Tinderbox and Second Life
• Greg Ibendahl (Mississippi State): Project Management with Tinderbox: A Visual Approach

Recently: Boston, Massachussets

November 17-18, 2007

Focus: Tinderbox for writers and film makers

• Tinderbox designer Mark Bernstein
• Sarah Smith (author of King of Space, The Vanished Child, Chasing Shakespeares) on Tinderbox and plotting
• Bill Bly (author of We Descend) on "Tinderbox and managing my writing life"
• John M. Stephan: The Tinderbox Cast of Characters in Nonfiction and Fiction
• Matt Griffin: Tinderbox On Location

Recently: Cambridge, England

April 21-22, 2007

Focus: Research and Writing

This Tinderbox weekend will focus on using Tinderbox for research, writing, and scholarship from planning and brainstorming to document export. We'll range broadly across Tinderbox features, from planning with maps and outlines to designing networks of collaborative agents.

Well explore new Tinderbox feature of special interest in research, including access to external resources, set attributes, using stamps for qualitative analysis. Well also examine Tinderbox export to the Web and to print. Tinderbox stretchtext and other advanced techniques will be made simple.

Included in the course materials will be Mark Bernstein's new volume, The Tinderbox Way, a 240-page book that explores Tinderbox from the foundations of its design to the latest techniques and practices for using Tinderbox to make, analyze, and share notes.

The weekend will include plenty of material for people new to Tinderbox, and well have lots of examples of Tinderbox applications in diverse fields. (Speakers are subject to change)

We're Making Plans!

Who'll be there?

Tinderbox weekends are small, informal gatherings of Tinderbox enthusiasts from throughout the country -- and indeed the world. Some will be Tinderbox beginners, some will be experts.

Mark Bernstein, Tinderbox's designer, will lead sessions and will be available throughout for discussions.

What if I can't possibly come this weekend?

We're going to offer a corresponding membership to people who simply cannot make it in person. Think of this as a sign of support for Tinderbox.

We'll send you handouts -- either on paper or CD -- and perhaps we'll be able to set up an electronic link during part of the meeting to field your questions. It'll be much better to attend, but if you simply can't make it, a corresponding membership might be nice.

I Have A Great Idea For A Session!

Tell us! Call or email tinderbox@eastgate.com .

Special Deal for Alumni?

Yes! Attendees from previous Tinderbox Weekends may register for half price. Please mention the alumni discount under special instructions if applicable.

What time?

We start at 10am on Saturday, and run to approximately 5:00. After a brief rest, many of us will get together for an informal blogger dinner. Other bloggers and Tinderboxers are welcome, too!

On Sunday, we start at 9:30 and continue to 3:00.

What's included?

A copy of The Tinderbox Way, and handouts including a CD filled with exclusive sample files and screencasts.

Can I connect?

We expect to have WiFi connectivity. Bring your laptop.

Fine Print

Speakers and program subject to change without notice. Refunds allowed more than 30 days in advance, less a $50 processing fee. No refunds after 30 days before the event. Multiple attendees from the same organization receive a 25% discount.