<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p><span lang="EN-US">Hi everyone,</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.sicamp.org/" target="_blank">Social Innovation Camp</a> is back this December and w</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; ">e're looking for the best ideas for web-based tools that could change something important.</span></p><p>It was great to see a good few of you come along last time - hope some of you can make it again.</p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; ">Over one weekend from <b>5th-7th December 2008</b>, the Social Innovation Camp is bringing together some of the best of the UK's software developers and designers with those at the sharp end of social problems. Their mission will be to accelerate six back-of-the-envelop ideas to working prototype web tools that could change the world in under 48 hours.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; "><a href="http://www.sicamp.org/?page_id=6" target="_blank">Send us your idea</a> for a web tool to create social change before </span><span lang="EN-US"><b>7th November</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; "> and you could be joining 80 other participants to try and make your idea a reality.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><b>Don't have an idea to enter but still want to get involved? <span style="font-weight: normal; ">We're also looking for talented software developers and designers, as well as those with business, fundraising, legal or other expertise needed to get an idea off the ground. Sign up to come along <a href="http://www.sicamp.org/?page_id=189" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></b></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Take a look <a href="http://www.sicamp.org/?page_id=166" target="_blank">here</a> for more info on how it worked when we held our first SI Camp back in April.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">And for some examples of the kinds of ideas we're after, watch SI Camp's April winner talk about her idea, <a href="http://www.enabledbydesign.org/" target="_blank">Enabled by Design</a>, <a href="http://www.sicamp.org/?p=195%0A%0A" target="_blank">here</a> and take a look <a href="http://www.sicamp.org/?page_id=16" target="_blank">here</a> at the other ideas we helped along over the weekend.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Anything else you'd like to know etc, get in touch.</span></p><p>Thanks!</p><p>p.s. If you can't make December, we also run monthly <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Social-Innovation-Camp/" target="_blank">Meetups</a> - a little bit of what we do at our weekend events, but more often.</p>Katherine Hui<br>Events Manager, Social Innovation Camp<br><a href="http://www.sicamp.org/">www.sicamp.org</a><br><br><a href="mailto:katherine@sicamp.org">katherine@sicamp.org</a> <br>Office: 020 8980 6263 ext: 310<br>Mob: 07964870271<br>Skype: kateehui</div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>