I guess the question of when to hold a PodCamp depends upon one’s primary reason for holding the PodCamp in the first place: is it intended to be a business-oriented POV or a socially-oriented POV?

In order to get people to take off from work and attend a PodCamp during the week, you’d need to be able to provide them with something tangibly beneficial, which they can take back to their day jobs and say, “This was worth the time spent NOT at my desk today.”

Since PodCamp, by and large, is an open-source conversation, and very a much a “you get out of it what you put into” philosophy, I don’t know that it’s designed to justify time lost from from one’s paying job. I almost think that, in order to become that type of conference, we’d need to drop the “un” and put up formalities that would affect the way in which the experience is perceived: less about an open dialogue and more about the business and infrastructure.

Perhaps that’s what a weekday PodCamp WOULD need to be, but I think the current model is built around unrushed, unforced and open-ended dialogues, which may lend itself better to a weekend than to the goal-oriented and product-driven 9-5 workweek.

Perhaps we’re considering two different potential conferences here…

If you need help I’d talk to Chris Penn and Chris Brogan and they could point you in the right direction. I’d love to help you out, but don’t tell me that I don’t understand.