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BarCamp was founded by TantekÇelik, AndySmith, ChrisMessina, RyanKing, Matthew Mullenweg and ErisFree (not pictured).
Scheduled for August 26 to 28, BarCamp Earth will mark the first anniversary of the original BarCamp, held in California last year. Since then, BarCamps and similar events with names like DemoCamp, OSCamp and CopyCamp have cropped up. The whole genre is sometimes referred to as "un-conferences," because while they are like regular computing events in some respects, these events are far less formal and less commercial
Every summer (beginning in 2003) O'Reilly hosts Foo Camp, an exclusive, invite-only geek retreat located in Sebastopol, California. In response to this, some friends of ours are organizing Bar Camp (foobar is classic hacker jargon), which will take place somewhere in the Bay Area this coming weekend. Bar Camp is like the open source version of Foo Camp.
The founders - Ryan King, Tantek Çelik, Eris Stassi, Chris Messina, Andy Smith, and Matt Mullenweg - were inspired by FOO Camp
In a traditional Barcamp, an overall theme may be chosen (ahead of the event) by the organizers, which serves to elicit the interest of the addressed community and determines the group of attendees. As part of the event itself, participants are strongly encouraged to propose a related topic that they are interested in and are willing to facilitate.
It was the morning of Saturday August 13th and Chris Messina found me on IRC and reminded me about the idea of BarCamp... In a matter of hours the BarCampFounders registered a domain, and started cloning the structure and logistics from the Foocamp wiki...Six days later the first BarCamp took place and the rest is history.
Barcamps are free-to-attend locally organized "unconferences" where participants are allowed to present about anything they want. Speakers and presenters can be anyone. Organizers are only required to take care of promotion, logistics, and infrastructure for the event while attendees proactively present and choose their own content.
It's really all about accelerating serendipity," says [Tara] Hunt. "These conversations exist out there -- we're just bringing them together by providing food, a venue and some Wi-Fi.
