BarCamp unconferences

Written by John Moravec on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 10:08

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A couple twitters from pfhyper got me intrigued by BarCamp unconferences:

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. (From Wikipedia)

As BYO-WiFi events, the rules seem quite simple:

Attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one, or otherwise volunteer / contribute in some way to support the event. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall. The people present at the event will select the demos or presentations they want to see.

Presenters are responsible for making sure that notes/slides/audio/video of their presentations are published on the web for the benefit of all and those who can’t be present.

These self-organizing conversations are perhaps exactly what the human capital development/knowledge production community needs to tap into!

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