The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 31 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia.
When ?
Jan-19/20th 2008, Saturday/Sunday!
Timing 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
So Whts BarCamp?
As per Wiki
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.In India, BarCampshave been organised in Delhi , Chennai , Pune , Kerala & Bangalore
The name "BarCamp" is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing luminary Tim O'Reilly.
Topics of Discussion - Check Paras Blog on it
Now this is something amazing,an open forum full of ideas and information exchange, concepted , designed and executed by the particpants themselves.
For any queries send mail to BarCampAhmedabad@googlegroups.com
I will be there, where will be You ?
1 comment:
Me will be there!! :D
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