Here are some photos and some captions from AboutUs.org at RCC.

“Open Space facilitator Jeff and John Abbe of Wagon work on preliminary organization for the Camp outside Socialtext HQ.”

“As part of the welcoming ceremonies for RecentChangesCamp 2008, we created a circle reaching from the earliest to most recent times of discovering wiki, our ‘Wiki Birthdays,’ spanning 1999-2008.”

“The other end of the WikiBirthdayCircle, reaching through 2006.”

“A participant, between Eugene Kim of blueoxen associates (the wiki host for the RecentChangesCamp wiki) and Wikimedia developer Brion Vibber tells the story of his wiki birthday.”

“MarkDilley listens while Peteforsyth of Wikipedia and the Our New Mind blog elaborate on the story behind his wiki birthday.”

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Check out a few photos on RCC by Steven Walling as well.

Here’s a message we got today from Steven.

Just wanted to send out the message that Mark, Kristina, Pete (Forsyth), Dunbar and John (Abee) have arrived in Palo Alto and all is well. We’re thinking we might do a blog post from and/or about RCC sometime in the near future, we already have a few photos as well (including of Facebook HQ, which is just down the block from Socialtext).

SocialText is the sandbox for this year’s RecentChangesCamp. I’ve encouraged them to post, as well as to use the AboutUs.org Twitter account to keep us informed by proxy of what’s happening. Also, check Mark’s, Kristina’s and Pete’s Twitter accounts for possible updates. The photos will eventually show up on the AboutUs.org Flickr page.

A small cadre of AboutUsites are rocketing southward to Palo Alto, California this weekend, May 9-11, to attend RecentChangesCamp. RCC08 is a big, wacky wiki hoedown that welcomes “participants from all wiki-related disciplines.”

This “big tent” includes poets, painters, novelists, historians, sculptors, scholars, designers, stylists, trade-paper sub-editors, interior decorators, wolves, millionaire patrons of art, sadists, nymphomaniacs, bridge sharks, anarchists, tire formers, educational cranks, economists, hopheads, dipsomaniac playwrights, nudists, restaurant keepers, stockbrokers and dentists and more.

So, if you’re going to be attending RCC, hunt us down, leave a comment here, or contact Mark Dilley or Kristina Weis. If you’re not attending but are part of the wiki universe and would like to get together and chew the fat, give us a holler as well and we’ll see what we can do.

If you’d like to see some photos of the disreputable sorts who populate the RCC, check out the photos from RCC 2006, taken by, among others, our own Beloved Leader, Ray.