Comments on: FooCamp, BarCamp, DoCamp

By: sean harper

sean harper — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:15:38 +0000

I am interested in getting a Boston Barcamp going - I have started a wiki - so far I am the only one who has posted.

By: First Clown

First Clown — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:11:49 +0000

DoCamp

I love the idea of hosting a DoCamp.  I think having a small group of tech-minded people over to just do stuff could end up being very interesting.  I’ve got a wireless connection, a Linux server currently doing nothing and enough cool friends t...

By: seppo helava

seppo helava — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:06:24 +0000

Maybe you should invite that Zazzle guy. I hear he’s a doerr.

By: mark simpkins

mark simpkins — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:37:06 +0000

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.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:27:49 +0000

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!