Actually I'm all for anyone wanting to host Barcamp because it's cool.
If you can host a cool Barcamp and get high quality participation than
you've achieved something and recognition is deserved. We should be so lucky
as to have our little un-conference be well received and highly considered
that there is competition amongst universities and other organizations to
host us. This is a GOAL not a bad thing.
I personally think that we, as participants, have to keep "raising the
bar" for Barcamp. Now more and more people know what it's about and
understand how it works. Let's really push for doing an overnight event. You
can't fully appreciate how much better participation in terms of quality you
get when the people attending are committed enough to do this until you've
been to one.
I don't care about the quantity of people, frankly. Most barcamps are
100 or less and they are very worth while. I also don't want to be some
"elite" group that prohibits people from coming - quite the opposite. I want
ANYONE who has the commitment to participate to join in - whatever that
number may be. But frankly I'm not interested in entertaining or sponsoring
folks who are there just cause it's "cool". I want people there because
they're interested in what the event has to offer and feels that they may
have some small part to play in that. And that's really all it takes - will
& execution. Just do it.
-- Ben
2009/2/6 Prem Sichanugrist <[email protected]>
> Hello guys,
> Apart from the university, do we have any alternative? I mean, first
> barcamp we said that we don't want to host the camp in the uni, to make it
> look informal to participants. From the fact that our second Barcamp was in
> Chula and we use KMUTT as the venue this time, what do you think it's gonna
> happen? I think there'll be a race between uni, like the forth time KU wants
> it, fifth time SIIT, and so on. It just that *the student of that
> university want to make their uni famous*. I don't want that chain of
> 'hosting barcamp in xx uni is so cool' to be started.
>
> That's just my though though .. I'm just feel that on the first time we
> organized the Barcamp we already discuss that, and looks like everybody
> forget about it already.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bee
>
> On 6 ?.?. 2552, at 20:42, Sugree Phatanapherom wrote:
>
> KMUTT is not that far. It's about 8-10 km from express way or 5 km from my
> home. Lucky!
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:16 AM, 31o5 OHIRA <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you keng, yes we should start now.
>>
>> I wanna try over-night thing, if you stay overnight, it doesn't really
>> matter where it is, you stay for 2 days, takes 1 hour for trip still have
>> many more hours, this is whay @proteusguy said, and I do agree with it.
>>
>> BUT there must be many people who can join only one day, or come late
>> leave early, drop by when they get short time break etc.... so if it's too
>> far, that's not fair to the people like that. How long does it take to go to
>> KMUTT? Is it such a far?
>>
>> There must be many universities in the city but i don't know. Most of uni
>> campus must have things we need such as rooms, projector etc... is there any
>> other university we can ask for venue?
>>
>> @31o5
>>
>>
>> On 2/6/09, Patipat Susumpow <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> As I've mentioned about overnight or stay home Barcamp Bangkok III, we
>>> should start discussion about this.
>>>
>>> Overnight Barcamp:-
>>> Pros:
>>>
>>> - Staying overnight is a lot more fun, lay down on the same floor
>>> with cool people is totally cool.
>>> - People can build a strong connection by eating the same food at the
>>> same place.
>>> - FUN!
>>>
>>> Cons:
>>>
>>> - Difficult to find the venue.
>>> - Due to venue limitation, it might not available for EVERYBODY.
>>>
>>> 2 separated days Barcamp:-
>>> Pros:
>>>
>>> - Widely available to EVERYBODY.
>>> - Easy to find the venue.
>>> - STILL FUN!
>>>
>>> Cons:
>>>
>>> - Less PEOPLE connection.
>>>
>>> I'm on overnight barcamp, I'm propose KMUTT Bangkhuntien Campus
>>> (somewhere here -
>>> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=KMUTT+,+bangkok&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.598824,79.101563&ie=UTF8&ll=13.577124,100.441067&spn=0.011284,0.019312&t=h&z=16)
>>> as a venue candidate.
>>>
>>> It's quite far from pubs, bars and beers, but I think we can
>>> bring-our-own.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Keng.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> http://twitter.com/kengggg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 31o5
>>
>>
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