BarCamp San Diego Recap
May 31st, 2009, 1 comment
Attended my very first BarCamp here in San Diego this weekend, and came away from it super-impressed. BarCamp is a free, self-organizing unconference where the attendees are also the speakers. The schedule isn't set till the conference starts. At that point, everyone slaps a big Post-It note describing their session on a board in the time slot and room they want to talk in and away it all goes. I've been to several FOO Camps, the invite-only O'Reilly event that inspired the BarCamp movement, and I'll be honest: given FOO, I had low expectations for BarCamp. O'Reilly's in the business of holding tech conferences, and their events are always top drawer. I didn't think a DIY get-together whose funding was scraped together by local sponsors in the midst of a recession could even come close. Boy was I wrong.
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