retrospecting BarCamp Copenhagen
On November 26th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:
BarCamp Copenhagen was last saturday. I have first digested everything about this Barcamp (known amongst the organizers as 8.2) today. It was a great even with a lot of surprises - variating from the really great speeches that people gave, over to the absinth tasting to the spy game, to the Ras Bolding concert.
As I have stated before on this blog - I love the un-conference format. It really makes sense to me. There's a lot of chaos and a lot of anarchy so all in all I would say that the BarCamp format is the offline event that resemples the internet the most. Which is probably why I continue to head the team of organizers.
For me it's an absolute thrill to see how much the format has grown in the danish web-underground. We even learned to play werewolf this time. BarCamp Copenhagen started out with 10 geeks sitting around a table trying to solve the problems of the world. This saturday we where 66 people coming and going throughout the day, making it a great and vibrant un-conference.
I also think the team is absolutely sublime these days supporting each others assets and faults in any way.
Next date for BarCamp Copenhagen isn't set yet - but it will be soon, stay tuned
[barcampcopenhagen, rockbandism, un-conference]
Kim Bach writes:
Our tribe is growing :-) - not without growing pains, and I agree with your assertation of the team - we're "ildsjæle" and as such hard to manage.
Right now we're enjoying a "vacation", digesting and destilling: what was good, what was bad, but one thing is sure, BarCamp is now a brand, and it has to be managed in a much more professional way, that is one of the main challenge we're facing, fighting over peoples time.
I have already taken ownership of an exercise of futilty: trying to keep http://barcamp.dk active.
November 29th, 2008 11:02