Barcamp Philly

BarCamp is an open-format conference where the attendees are the presenters. Our subject matter will be directly tied to what ideas people bring to share with the community.

What is BarCamp?

According to Wikipedia, Barcamp is “…an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.”

Read more on the official Barcamp website.

What will BarCamp Philly be like?

BarCamp is an open-format conference where the attendees are the presenters. Our subject matter will be directly tied to what ideas people bring to share with the community.  Most of the rooms at UArts are equipped with projectors if participants would like to give a slide presentation.  Discussion groups, round tables, Q&A, brainstorming together are also options.

A typical day at BarCamp goes something like this…

From 8 to 10am, attendees plan the schedule on a large grid.  We’ll have index cards at the ready. Write your session title on the card and choose a room and time slot.  We will provide a blank form to enter in all of the sessions that you would like to attend for the day.  We will kick off after a brief welcome message from the organizers.

Some of our sessions from last year included:

• OnLine Organizing – tools, methods, secrets, software
• The Internet Sux – unfollowing, cancelling, unfriending, unplugging – a roundtable discussion
• Building Your Community, Sponsors, and Your Brand as a Full Time Job Online
• Learn to Make Cheesy iPhone Apps 101
• Rethinking the .edu
• Quit Your Job! – Pick my brain about going independent
• Intro to JQuery