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Vitaly Vlasov
What is a barCamp, by the example of
Launching barCamp in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
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History
• The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week by Tim O'Reilly, from concept to event, with 200 attendees. Tim O'Reilly
• The first BarCamps focuses on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
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What is a barCamp
• BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.
• All participants are organizers.• Web 2.0 in reality!
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BarCamps have been held in over 350 cities around the world
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BlogCamp 2007
• The very first barcamp in Easten Europe, focusing on post-USSR countries.
• 300 attendees.
• 9 countries.
• 60 presentations.
• 800 posts in blogs.
• 80 mentions in the Press.
• Virus ....
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barCamps in CIS
Москва
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BlogCamp 2008
• Blogcamp CEE 2008 is a three-day conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 17-19th, which is going to gather 500 new media specialists, bloggers, start-upers and investors from Central and Eastern Europe. Those interested in CEE region are also welcome.
• Format: all about new media: blogs, social media, podcasting, citizen journalism, etc.
• Ragion: Central and Eastern Europe
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A bit about schedule...
• There is no the planned schedule of appearances in advance. All participants have been writing down their presentations on the big empty board from the morning.
• 1 presentation — 1 cell — 30 minutes.
• 6 parallel sections.
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Day 1. This is participant-generated schedule.
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Day 2. This is participant-generated schedule.
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BlogCamp Events
• Best Ukrainian Blog Awards (BUBA).
• Investor Day and Start-up contest.
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Investor Day
• 126 projects from 9 countries: Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Poland, Russia, Romania and Ukraine. 10 projects reached the final and have been competing in two nominations:
• Seed Stage
• Early Growth Stage
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Investor Day
• Experts: from DFJ, one of the greatest funds in the World; Mangrove – the most succesful european fund; ABRT from Russia, also funds from USA, Poland, Poland, Baltic countries, UK, Luxemburg, Holland, France, Norway.
• 32 investors.
• 5 startups started negotiations about funding before the final.
• 2 startups got Term Sheet.
• P-Navigator has been invested.
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Sponsors?..
• Partners of Blogcamp CEE 2008 were: Microsoft (Freedrinks ), Opera, ASUS, Profeo, etc.
• Also Yandex, Gemius, Google, Begun, Meta UA, Rambler, Profeo, Kaspersky Lab, etc.
• Web (and the wonderful logo) – World Web Studio
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Summary
• 821 attendees.
• 15 countries.
• 100 presentations.
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Start-up contest
• DomVsem
DomVsem is a real estate portal and search engine that will deliver flexible search, accurate results, property visualization, advanced mapping, etc.
• Hippocrat
1) unified and easily accessible storage of their medical records,
2) background check of a doctor's reputation, and
3) getting a second opinion to support diagnosis of their current doctor.
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Start-up contest
• Relenta
Relenta replaces five types of software by combining the functionality of shared email, contact manager, online calendar, task manager, and email newsletter marketing software into one elegant CRM-like application.
• TalkFest
is designated to unite people with similar interests and give them an opportunity to create information, share it with others and earn money on this.
• Youstyler
localized social network of fashion-obsessed people. It relies on users' interest in streetwear
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Start-up contest
• ClienteQ
is a collaborative CRM solution that is open to clients. It is a shared collaboration space where your team and your client's team can plan meetings, track project status, etc.
• DeepMemo
is the information processor, which helps any reader of Web to easily work with information - to cut information (quotes, pieces of text and/or pictures), save, organize and share these quotes online, one-click.
• TuneStory
is a service making iPod and iPhone devices more social. User can generate musical recommendations on-the-go right from her iPod
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Start-up contest
• P-Navigator
is a tool for professional information search and retrieval. It runs on top of existing search engines, analyzing, enhancing and restructuring their results and providing end-users with semantics-centered GUI
• Alltunedin
to provide easy-to-use on-demand solution to build and manage niche social networks for businesses and organizations. They have already tested alpha product at the Russian market (http://vsevteme.ru/) and collected positive customer references in this segment.
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Winners
• Hippocrat (Seed Stage)
• ClienteQ (Early Growth Stage).
• Winners get invitations at Silicon Valley Open Doors 2009.
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BarCamp will be in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 2009!
Join to organize or attend!
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• Russia is not only oil, gaz and the Kremlin!
• Saint-Petersburg is not only culture capital of Russia and the biggest science and educational centre...
• Russia is new features and new perspectives...
• Saint-Petersburg is the cradle of innovations in Russia!
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• New media: blogs, social media and social networks, microblogging, podcasting, online broadcasting, etc.
• Disruptive and advanced technologies (virtual worlds, Enterprise 2.0, Semantic Web, mashups, etc).
• Innovations and investment in the Internet start-ups.
• You will be able to find like-minded persons.
• You will be able to talk with and listen to professionals.
• Find or build new teams and new projects on the event.
Underlying principles
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http://openwebrussia.org
If you want to participate in organizing of the Event, let me know — Vitaly Vlasov, [email protected]
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BarCamp Санкт-Петербург 2009
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