Poster (TIFF) Flier (TIFF) Art and logo by Ian McEwan, design by Daniel Rafatpanah

EsoZone Portland 2009 admission is free. We are funding this year’s event through sponsorships, merchandise, individual donations. We hope to raise as much in individual sponsorships as the cost of a single sponsorship fee – $250. Speaking of which, if you’re interested in sponsoring, you can find more information here.

I’m excited to announce the venue of EsoZone Portland 2009: Watershed PDX. Watershed proved to be a great venue last year, and with all its various nooks, should be even better for this year’s format. Watershed is located at: 5040 SE Milwaukee, Portland, OR 97202.

You can buy a DVD of Antero Alli’s talk from Esozone: The Other Tomorrow from Original Falcon: The 8-Circuit Brain DVD (note: this is not an official Esozone product, and Esozone does not benefit financially from sales of this product). You can also check out an excerpt from Antero’s new book, The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational [...]

Now we can get down to the nitty gritty of planning this thing. The forums are a work in progress, but you can login now: Esozone Forums

What is an unconference? An event with an agenda set on the fly by the participants. That isn’t to say there is no agenda and no schedule, only that it is created by the people who show up, when they show up, instead of by the conference organizers months in advance. Read the whole thing.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Esozone Portland 2009 The New Esozone The Esozone virus is resilient. It mutates and evolves. Faced with a rapidly changing environment, Esozone has rewritten its own code. No more admission fees, no more weekend passes, no more divide between speaker and spoken-to. The new Esozone is an unconference, an open environment with an agenda [...]