Hey folks, this announcement was sent along helpfully, thought I'd relay :)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Budd <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM Subject: Corvallis Beaver BarCamp III To: undisclosed-recipients I'm sending the following because you attended one of the previous two Corvallis BarCamps's. --tim --------- On Saturday, April 4th, the Open Source Lab and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University will be hosting the 3rd Beaver BarCamp in the new Kelly Engineering center on the OSU Campus. What is a BarCamp, you ask? On www.barcamp.org you find the following description: "BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants." In recent years BarCamps have been hugely popular, and have been held all over the world - See the web link mentioned for a few recent camps. A BarCamp is sometimes described as an "unconference." Like a conference, a BarCamp is organized into sessions, with breaks for coffee and tea, free food, and socializing. Unlike a traditional conference, topics are not decided in advance. Instead, talks are spontaneously organized on the ground in real-time. Most attendees are expected to arrive at BarCamp with at least one topic they are passionately interested in discussing during a 50-minuit session. Potential presenters describe their topic on post-it notes, everybody votes on their favorite topics, rooms are assigned to topics according to the number of participants, and things are off and running. Topics can cover anything that people want to discuss. In earlier BarCamps most talks have been on current technical tools and issues, but there have also been discussions on sustainability, community building, science fiction, knitting patterns, techniques for losing weight, and platonic solids. Because the participants decide the agenda, everybody has the chance to be part of a discussion they are truly interested in. Although participation at BarCamp is free, the organizers would like people to register their intent to come at the web site http://www.barcamp.org/BeaverBarCamp. That way they know how many tee-shirts and how much food to order. Sign up and plan on coming to Beaver BarCamp! As an added bonus, the Friday night before BarCamp there will be the 2nd Ignite Corvallis event. See http://ignitecorvallis.com/ for information on that event. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
