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Barcamping in Eastern Europe
ByCamp, Miensk (Belarus), June 7, 2008
By Oleksandr Demchenko
Outline
1. Barcamps : WTF?
2. Overview of Barcamps in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
3. Regional Barcamping Features
4. Future Trends
1. Barcamps: WTF?
Origin of Barcamps
O'Reilly's FooCamp and FooBar Barcamp as an opensourced version
of Foocamp First barcamp: 2005, Silicon Valley Several hundred barcamps in 3 years
WTF?
Self-organized (user generated) (un)conference. Wiki is usually used to set up a barcamp
Brief sessions with no topical division to give an opportunity to everyone and to mix up the audience
Generaly on new media or ICT related topics, but not limiting to
Great spirit of creativity, information exchange ant extensive networking
2. Overview of Barcamps in Eastern Europe and
Blogcamp CIS and Baltics 2007 Kyiv, Ukraine (no visa for both EU and
CIS citizens), Oct 13-14 OSI granted, also supported by TOL and
Internews 300 participants 60 sessions within 2 days in 3
simultaneous flows 700 blog posts covering the event Promoting barcamp format as one of the
aims
Barcamp Baltics 2008
Riga, Latvia, Feb 8-10 Both commercial and non-commercial
sponsors Venue is city's best hotel 450 participants from all post-USSR
countries Barcamp is only one day Innovation incubator and pecha kucha
next day
Moscow's 1st Educational 'Samosbor' Moscow, Russia, Feb. 24 'Samosbor' is a linguistic purist
translation of barcamp Intel's educational program
Education 2.0
Moscow, Russia, March 28 Google's educational conference ½ of event pre-scheduled ½ in barcamp format
'Blogcamp' on Internet and Business Conference 2008 Near Moscow, April 17-18 Leading Russian internet annual
conference Mis-using word 'blogcamp' instead of
barcamp Participants are free to propose their
sessions on conference website Online voting for proposed sessions: most
voted items included in program of the conference
Code:Camp
Lviv, Ukraine, April 19-20 Set up in frames of Decoded annual IT
festival Sessions given only by sponsors and
Kyiv blogcamp community Local community isn't informed
enough about barcamp format
Bridgecamp
Riga, Latvia, April 25-26 «Bridge» is for bridging ICT and NGO
communities One session flow educating NGO
people about ICT Another one educating ICT people
about non-governmental activities
Barcamp Caucasus
Tbilisi, Georgia, June 7-8 Georgia is a safe ground for
Armenians and Azerbaijanis to meet About 150 participants Lack of local barcamp community
Mediabarcamp
Lithuania, June 6-8 Media activism in focus Mostly for Belarusians Hosted by Belarusian Greens At Baltic seashore Simultaneous with Barcamp Caucasus
iCamp
iCamp - near Moscow, Jul 30 — Aug 3 'Ethnomir' resort About 450 participants Devided into sections (blogcamp,
startupcamp, educamp etc.)
And more...
Barcamp (Central) Asia - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Aug 29-31 (See Kristina's presentation)
Barcamp Azerbaidjan - Baku/Lenkoran, Aug 29-31
Barcamp Kazakhstan - Almaty, Sept 12-14
Blogcamp Central and Eastern Europe 2008
Kyiv (Ukraine), Oct 10-12 Region shift: from CIS in 2007 to CEE
in 2008 821 participants from 16 countries 101 presentations Investor day – about 130 projects
contesting Best Ukrainian Blog Awards
Educamp
Kyiv (Ukraine), November 15-16 Not a barcamp! Seminars in Universities on new media
prior to Educamp (up to 600 participants)
Up to 400 students took part Blogcamp community were presenters
in 3 session tracks Educamp in Donetsk on Dec. 18th
SocialCamp
Kyiv, December 13 Some 100 participants 3 simultaneous session flows Focus on new media for NGOs and
activists
ByCamp
Here you are!
Minibars and minicamps
Minibars are thematic gatherings of Moscow iCamp community
Minicamps are Ukrainian (Kyiv) monthly meeting of this kind
In other countries word 'minibar' is sometimes used for barcamp presentation meeting
3. Regional Barcamping Features
Non-governmental support
Open Society Institute is granting main barcamps
Supported by: Internews Ukraine, Internews Network, Transitions Online, European Journalism Centre, Swedish International Liberal Centre...
Travel grants for barcampers from other nations
Investment event
Named Innovation Incubator on Baltic and Caucasus barcamps
Special activity on barcamps to get together investors and startupers
Both business and non-profit projects
Wiki is not the only option Wiki was used for Blogcamp CIS and
Baltics and Samosbor Wordpress used for Barcamp Baltics
and Barcamp Caucasus. Registration for the event was realised with registration in wordpress
Special CMS will be used for iCamp and Blogcamp CEE
Miscellaneous (outdated a bit)
Traincamps and aircamps — participants of one nation are travelling to barcamp to another country together
Barcamps of Eastern Europe are generally more 'organized' and attract more participant than a typical barcamp
'How to organize your barcamp' is a typical end session
4. Trends
Commercializing
OSI to end support? Commercial sponsors are better
acqainted with barcamp format Organizers are more experienced Barcamps are cool
Getting lesser in size, more topic-specific
More specialized barcamps 'Normalizing' in size
De-barcamping?
Not barcamp elements: investment event, pecha-kucha etc.
More control of content: thematic sections on iCamp, voting for sessions
Some not-barcamp events but inspired by barcamps are called barcamps or ...camps.
Boil-out?
Barcamps are loosing their `inspirational spirit
Searching for new efficient formats (e.g. discussions in groups as at ByCamp and and Barcamp Baltics 2009)
Blogcamp CEE 2008
Oleksandr Demchenko
http://demchenko.info
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