by Brian Solis
BarCamp is now BarCamp Block due to overwhelming demand and popularity!
Almost two years ago, a group of 6 San Francisco geeks in 7 days, using blogs, wikis and IRC, slapped together a weekend conference with wifi, food and amazing presentations in Palo Alto, California.
There were no superstar keynote speakers. There were no pre-programmed agendas. There was a brilliant agenda filled with content by and for the attendees. Everyone, including the sponsors, the organizers, the speakers and the audience were involved in making the event happen, equally, and were often one and the same.
Over the weekend, more than 200 people showed up and people watched remotely from all over the world. This event was BarCamp.
This August 18-19, 2007, BarCamp will be back and bigger than ever. Not only is it coming back to its original space, the SocialText offices in Palo Alto. And, they’re expanding it to the entire block to include the offices and boardrooms of many other tech startups, including Edgeio, Ning and Intalio.
BarCampBlock is being organized by two of the original BarCamp founders as well as two BarCamp leaders, Chris Messina, Ross Mayfield, Liz Henry, Tantek Çelik and Tara Hunt.
Good friend, Chris Heuer is going to to be leading a session at BarCampBlock entitled, “Why Intention Matters to your Business.”
The event starts on August 18 at 10 a.m. with group introductions and ends on August 19 at around 5 p.m.. The empty grid will be filled by attendees at around 11 a.m. Feel free to bring your tents to camp out on the lawn of the SocialText offices.
The Rules of Bar Camp
- 1st Rule: You do talk about Bar Camp.
- 2nd Rule: You do blog about Bar Camp.
- 3rd Rule: If you want to present, you must write your topic and name in a presentation slot.
- 4th Rule: Only three word intros.
- 5th Rule: As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
- 6th Rule: No pre-scheduled presentations, no tourists.
- 7th Rule: Presentations will go on as long as they have to or until they run into another presentation slot.
- 8th Rule: If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present.
Register here – but you should probably hurry, since it’s been TechCrunch’d.
More on Ross Mayfied’s blog.