BarCamp Birmingham

I’ve just learned of a Birmingham BarCamp that’s being organized for August 25-26, and I’m thinking about attending.

To be honest, although I’ve heard of the BarCamp idea before, I don’t know a lot about them. I know that they were instituted in response to the closed, invitation-only Foo Camp that O’Reilly sponsors every year. The primary rule of Bar Camp is that all of the attendees must give a demo, or make a presentation, or at least help with one. So I’d need to come up with something to present, and that shouldn’t be too tough, although it appears that most of the propsed (or requested) sessions so far seem to focus on web stuff.

Posted June 27th, 2006 in Miscellaneous.

2 comments:

  1. John Philip Green:

    Hi Lyle,

    I’m afraid I won’t be able to attend BarCamp Birmingham, but I’m sure it’ll be worthwhile. I’ve been to BarCamps in Toronto, Ottawa and SanFran now, and they have been the best venue we’ve found to meet people and share ideas.

    John
    –
    John Philip Green
    Nuvvo eLearning
    http://nuvvo.com

    June 29th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
  2. Curtis:

    Come ready to engage the speaker and you’ll have participated. No need to make a presentation, but if you’ve got a non-Web presentation then THAT’d be great to hear!!

    August 8th, 2006 at 1:59 pm