**Breaking News** Barcamp LA8 has been changed to April 30-May 1
Barcamp is back in Los Angeles.
Tickets and more info:
http://barcampla8.eventbrite.com/
Ticket price includes:
- Two days of Barcampy goodness
- T-shirt
- Snacks and drinks
- More developing
NOTE: We have the building Saturday and Sunday but cannot stay overnight.
Your Hosts: Scott Kelley, Andy Sternberg, Alexander Valenzuela,...
[read more] **Breaking News** Barcamp LA8 has been changed to April 30-May 1
Barcamp is back in Los Angeles.
Tickets and more info:
http://barcampla8.eventbrite.com/
Ticket price includes:
- Two days of Barcampy goodness
- T-shirt
- Snacks and drinks
- More developing
NOTE: We have the building Saturday and Sunday but cannot stay overnight.
Your Hosts: Scott Kelley, Andy Sternberg, Alexander Valenzuela, Evonne Heyning, Heathervescent and others (volunteer)!
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- BlogDowntown
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More about Barcamp
(From wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp)
BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences). They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
The name BarCamp is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as an open-to-the-public alternative to Foo Camp, which is an annual invitation-only (for Friends of O'Reilly) participant-driven conference hosted by Tim O'Reilly.
The procedural framework consists of sessions proposed and scheduled each day by attendees, mostly on-site, typically using whiteboards or paper taped to the wall. This approach has been dubbed to play on words, The Open Grid approach.
FooCamps and BarCamps are based on simplified variations of Open Space Technology (OST), relying on the self-organizing character of OST. Unlike classical conference formats, BarCamps and OST rely on the passion and the responsibility of the participants.
