It’s more than a week since the ds106radio Summer Camp wrapped up, and the good vibes are still bouncing around the atmosphere of my little corner of the world wide web. The free and open lofi conference that Maren Deepwell pulled together alongside Taylor Jadin was a pretty remarkable feat. My only regret is how little I had to do with how awesome it was! Thanks to the impeccable planning of Maren and seamless integration of tech by Taylor all I had to do was show up after two weeks of traveling and jump on the air. The vision and execution for this conference was all Maren and Taylor, so major kudos to a brilliant re-imagining of what a summer conference can and should be. It was truly a “summer of love” event, and highlights how warm and magical community events can be!
As for my part, I had the pleasure and privilege of getting the camp started four of the five days, which I approached as part playing music and part reflecting on what happened the day before, while preparing the listeners for what was on tap for that day. It was a pretty easy format for me to structure a show around and made planning dead simple. I would just dip into recordings that happened the day before and then extrapolate on the list of sessions for the day to come. For the record, here are the four 1-hour recordings from my Summer Camp morning show:
“ds106radio Summer Camp Day 1 Morning Show” by Jim Groom.
“ds106radio Summer Camp Day 2 Morning Show” by Jim Groom.
“ds106radio Summer Camp Day 3 Morning Show” by Jim Groom.
“ds106radio Summer Camp Day 4 Morning Show” by Jim Groom.
Beyond that, I had a hand in a few other sessions as either participant, moderator, or hanger-on. In fact, you can find any of the official sessions—20 in all!—over at the ds106radio Summer Camp audio archive. There are so many riches to explore in the wake of summer camp, and as always Maren and Taylor have prioritized both sharing and caring. All hail summer Camp on the mighty ds106radio!
And who among us will forget Luigi calling in from the mountain top, cornered by the, what you calla, de “Hell Slime”. Brilliant during Long-time listener, Last-time Caller with Pilot.
Luigi was comic genius.
Loved the whole summer camp. As soon as I saw that Maren was involved in organising it I knew it would be worth attending – and it was even better than I thought it was going to be.
Thank you all.