Jun
02
BarCampNorthEast
Okay this is a bit delayed but its been in the pipeline for a while.
I recently attended the first ever BarCampNorthEast, held at the Art Work Galleries in Newcastle.
Now if you dont know what BarCamp is, it's described as ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. Basically at BarCamp you can:
- give a presentation on anything you like
- attend the many presentations held by others
- have an all together jolly time meeting talented/cool kids
Personally, i love BarCamp because of its informal participatory nature, for example, Tara Hunt's discussion on mind hacks found everybody in a circle 'splaining their own personal hacks; Bon's hack involved setting his clock fifteen minutes fast which allowed him a combination of getting from A to B early or on time. Good hack!
The night time saw a rather tasty barbecue, mojito's (made by yours truely!) and an on-the-fly DJ set by none other than Ian Forrester using his amazing Pacemaker.
So yeah, BarCampNorthEast rocked! Roll on BarCampNorthEast2!
Mad e-props go out to Alistair MacDonald and Gareth Rushgrove who did a brilliant job of organising the event.
posted by rey on June 2, 2008 at 2:24 p.m.
