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BfastCamp
| 9.15.2006
These days, I'm a sucker (as well as very interested) for any type of social networking paradigm. Typically, they're physical manifestations or the analog of blogs or wikis. A few such events that are getting lots of attention are BarCamp and PodCamp. A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It's an event with discussions, demos, and interaction from its participants.PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style meetup for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and new media types of all stripes. Some other free-style gatherings are Foo Camp (the annual invitation only, no-structure, no plan, tent on the lawns, hacker event hosted by publisher Tim O'Reilly. O'Reilly describes it as " the wiki of conferences", where the program is developed by the attendees at the event, using big whiteboard schedule templates that can be rewritten or overwritten by attendees to optimize the schedule. The goal of the event is to reach out to new people who will increase the company's intelligence about new technologies, and to create opportunities for cross-fertilization between people and technologies that are on the O'Reilly radar. Yet another is an Unconference (a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance. To date, the term is primarily in use in the geek community. Unconference processes like Open Space Technology, however, have been around for over 20 years in other contexts.
As a result of long hours worked, I can only find time to catch up with friends on Saturday or Sunday mornings at the Town Diner in Watertown (great pancakes). Most of my social contacts are in the biz so I was thinking of having a BarCamp or maybe ScoutCamp to catch up with a bunch of them and enable them to meet each other and network. I'm not too worried about the structure of the breakfast. That's the whole idea in the first place, right?
Here's who's on the trial run list of invites, so be ready for an invite in the near future.
Conor F | Dave O | Dan B | Jen L | Alison F | Michele L | Jason L | Anish D | Frank R | Ed M | Will C | Todd F | Will R | Randy H | Phil W | Jon C | Linda M | Kristen C | Jeanne F
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3 Comments:
great idea! count me in!
Hey, thanks for the plug for the diner...that was lovely of you. Just so you know, there's a little brand confusion about another diner in Watertown, so when you do your amazing and much appreciated brand championing.....it would be great it you referred to it as Deluxe Town Diner....obviously the link eliminates that situation here.
Woo! Awesome idea!
Can't wait to figure out all those last names ;)
Ed M(cManus)
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