[ale] BarCamp Atlanta?

[Michael Mealling]

Bar Camp was setup in response to the invitation only Foo Camp run by 
O'Rielly last year:

http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foo-camp/index.cgi

Specifically Foo Camp was:

We've invited about 400 people who're doing interesting work in fields 
such as wireless, web services, open source programming, GPS, and all 
manner of emerging technologies to share their work-in-progess, show off 
the latest tech toys and hardware hacks, and tackle challenging problems 
together. We'll have some planned activities, but much of the agenda 
will be determined by you. We'll provide space, electricity, a wireless 
network, and a wiki. You bring your ideas, enthusiasms, and projects. We 
all get to know each other better, and hopefully come up with some cool 
ideas about how to change the world.

But it was outside and everyone camped out, hence the name Foo Camp as 
opposed to Foo Convention. Anyway, those that weren't invited or 
couldn't go decided to setup remote copies of Foo Camp called Bar Camp. 
The only difference as that Bar Camp was open to anyone with the 
exception that if you came you had to demo something you were working 
on. So its more than just a bunch of geeks drinking beer somewhere. 
Hopefully interesting ideas and opportunities come out of it.

You could also think of it as an old fashioned "lock in" for geeks but 
without the church or the chaperone but with Wifi and sometimes beer...

And yes, that probably makes it the most geeky thing you'll ever do...

-MM

Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Michael Mealling wrote:
>> http://barcamp.org/index.cgi?BarCampAtlanta
> 
> Wiki's are wonderful, but I'm trying to extract 
> more of what a BarCamp is... 
> 
> "NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS" - Sounds like Burning Man. 
> 
> Or is it Linux centered.. or FOSS centered
> 
> Or is it a technological free-thought-for-all?
> 
> The agenda for the ongoing NYC Barcamp helps:
> 
> http://www.barcamp.org/index.cgi?NYCPresentationTracks
> 
> But it leaves me wondering. Still, I signed up, 
> sounds like a reason to load up the truck with toys
> and camp out in Atlanta with geeks.


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