Join J. Nathan Matias, Mark Anderson, and Alex Strick van Linschoten for a day of fascinating, erudite, practical, and fun workshops about Tinderbox and Emberlight, tools for notes.

9:30am to 6pm on Saturday, 28 May, at the (brand new) Grand Union Pub, Paddington.

The three of us are meeting up to share ideas and work on projects before Nathan moves to MIT and Alex goes on his next journalism trip. We thought you might to join us!

Whether you're Tinderbox-curious or an experienced Tinderbox user, we would love you to bring your ideas, questions, and projects. We expect the day to include:

• Introduction to Tinderbox and Emberlight
• Demos of our latest uses of Tinderbox
• Bring your project, give us a demo, and ask for feedback or ideas
• (optional) group team project (details TBA)

We expect the projects and topics to be relevant to:

• Journalism
• Personal Information Tracking
• Meetings & Collaboration
• Writing, Research & Electronic Literature
• Making Websites

Schedule
- 9:00am: Bring your questions and personal projects to Starbucks, 34 Edgware Road for informal Tinderbox consultation by Mark A, Alex, and Nathan.
- 11:30am: move to the Grand Union Bar Paddington for an Introduction to Tinderbox by Nathan, Mark A, and Alex.
- 12:30pm: Form groups for the afternoon's practical projects & lunch in the Grand Union
- 1:30pm Group project Session One
- 3:00pm Break 
- 3:15pm Group project Session Two
- 4:45pm Project Presentations, followed by informal Tinderbox & Emberlight consultation
- 6:00pm Dinner TBA.

J. Nathan Matias is director of Emberlight, a web service for publishing and sharing Tinderbox files to the web. He has used Tinderbox writing dissertations, making documentary art, understandinng ideas, and personal information tracking.

Mark Anderson maintains Tinderbox reference documentation, is a Tinderbox beta tester, and does consulting in Tinderbox and Digital Asset Management. He is currently developing a stretchtext blogging platform in Tinderbox.

Alex Strick van Linschoten is a writer/researcher based in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He co-edited the autobiography of one of the founding members of the Taliban and is currently trying to get to grips with NATO's insurgent targeting campaign using open-source data and Tinderbox to process it all.