This weekend (4th and 5th of October) I’m attending the BarCamp Vienna. It’s my first BarCamp and I’m curious how it will be.
What is a BarCamp: Wikipedia Article BarCamp
More Informations about BarCamps in Austria: barcamp.at
I will try to twitter some of my Impressions of the BarCamp directly from there.
One of the rules of a BarCamp is: “If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present.”
I’m not really reluctant to present, but I’m not sure if I know any interesting topic for this BarCamp. The only thing I could present about would be Couchsurfing, we will see, maybe I could present it as an successful example of a Virtual Community, more talking about the Couchsurfing Community and what we are doing and what we could do, instead of presenting what Couchsurfing is about (I think that’s not soo hard to find out anymore 🙂 ).
Maybe someone wants to join forces with me and present something together? Maybe someone wants to give some input?
Let’s see how the BarCamp is on Saturday, I will do the “extension” of the “presenting” rule (“Ok, you don’t really HAVE to, but try to find someone to present with, or at least ask questions and be an interactive participant.”) on Saturday, let my first day at an BarCamp “sink in” and then think about presenting again Saturday evening.
leider kann ich nicht dort sein, aber viel spaß und grüße an die runde haha 🙂
A presentation about Couchsurfing would be great! Not the service itself (I think there was already one about CS on the first barcamp in 2006) but some other interesting aspects:
– How CS has built up a community.
– How essential tasks from software development to idendity verfifications, etc. has been outsourced (“crowdsourced”) to this community.
– How a network of trust and reputation has been built up.
– What other services could learn from CS.
etc.
hola!
wenn du den marc scheloske triffst dann grüß ihn von mir!
vg florian