BarCamp
You may have heard of FooCamp, O’Reily media’s invite-only weekend long geek-fest
Introducing BarCamp – like FooCamp, minus the invite-only-ness.
Update: We have a location.
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August 13th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
BAR, the alternative to FOO
Today a bunch of us met to plan out Barcamp, an open invite alternative to O’Reilly’s Foocamp. We don’t have much time, money or space at the moment, but we’re scrappy and committed to making this happen.So check out the wiki a…
August 14th, 2005 at 6:56 am
For just a moment I thought my adult-beverage dreams had been answered. ;-)
August 14th, 2005 at 10:38 am
Don’t worry, Paul…. there’ll be adult beverages. :D
August 17th, 2005 at 8:46 am
“can’t we all just get along?”
seems like you folks are making a statement by holding Bar camp on the *same* weekend as Foo camp… but i’d really like to attend both.
i wonder if a more “open source” method might be to schedule for a different weekend, then invite *everyone* to attend — including those who went to foo (perhaps even O’Reilly themselves?)
in any case, i’ll see if i can get some folks from SimplyHired to join Bar Camp and geek out locally… wouldn’t want to miss any microformat wisdom from you & Kevin & Tantek :)
– dave mcclure
http://www.simplyhired.com
August 21st, 2005 at 9:38 am
Barcamp jealousy
I’m jealous. I’ve been reading about Barcamp over at TechCrunch (a new favorite blog of mine) and I just get all excited hearing about it. It seems like the conferences is where a real-life sense of community brews. It lets you see people…
August 22nd, 2005 at 10:08 pm
[…] Podcast: Ryan King on Microformats @ BarCamp ‘05 From BarCamp ‘05, Ryan King talks about Microformats. Link: http://content.labnotes.org/podcast/barcamp05 […]
August 22nd, 2005 at 10:48 pm
I’d like to see Bar Camp held more regularly, just like some night clubs hold jam sessions every week or every 2 weeks.
Jam sessions, incidentally, are not all informal events. The higher quality ones are taken very seriously, both by their organizers and the presenters. And the audience!