What are you doing this weekend?
Want to put together a camp for “do-ers” wherever you are?
Whether you’re in Boston, Tehran, Moscow, Bombay, Shanghai, or Baghdad?
[FooCamp](http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp05/index.cgi?) is an invite-only free camp in Sebastapol, California for “Friends of [(Tim) O'Reilly](http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/tim_bio.html)” who are doers. It’s this weekend. It’s for people who do things like “web services, data visualization and search, open source programming, computer security, hardware hacking, GPS”. Or whatever.
Some folks that didn’t get invited to FooCamp created [BarCamp](http://barcamp.org/) which is also happening this weekend in Palo Alto, California. That’s a great idea. It is going to be a great place to brainstorm and do.
Why don’t you create a BarCamp in your town this weekend?
Need a wiki? I have heard [pbwiki](http://pbwiki.com/) is good and free. There’s also [wikispaces](http://www.wikispaces.org/) and [seedwiki](http://www.seedwiki.com/).
Invite doers over. Tell those doers to invite other doers other.
Make it invite-only. Or don’t.
Make it a sleepover. Or don’t.
Checkout the [FooCamp wiki](http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp05/index.cgi?) for some best practices if you’re going to do this. Or don’t.
I suggest we call it DoCamp to get the point of the event across. I think of it as an Earth Day for doers.
__Update__: I registered docamp.org if anyone needs to use it. I’m sure someone will register foobarcamp.org as an alternative too. Then there is always doocamp.org. I am unfortunately obsessed with domain name variants right now…
Nivi,
A great idea… DoCamp! That’s exactly what brought about BarCamp — we saw the model that Foo Camp espoused and realized that it wanted to be set free from the boundaries of Sebastapol.
In fact, one of my design goals in creating Bar Camp is to make it possible to internationalize this project next year — so that many smaller, independent Bar Camps can be set up across the country and world.
Where’s there a wiki there’s a way and in a week, we’re putting together a top notch event with top notch folks. Imagine the collective wisdom we could garner if we made it easy and cheap to assemble such events with nothing but time, dedication and word of mouth. That’s what Bar Camp represents and inasmuch as we can produce a sustainable, reproduceable model we will have been doubly successful with our efforts!
Hey great idea, i kept meaning to arrange something to ‘concentrate’ on civic hacking this year but totally did not do it. this was when i had the URL civiccommons.com
maybe i should just get it together again :) doCamp is an inspiration here…
cheers,
mark.
Maybe you should invite that Zazzle guy. I hear he’s a doerr.
I am interested in getting a Boston Barcamp going – I have started a wiki – so far I am the only one who has posted.
Boston BarCamp