Barcamp boston rocks

It's called a "camp" or "camping". A short conference, in this case a bit underground. Who's presenting? What are the topics? Who will be there? No one can answer these questions until the day of... and that's the beauty of it. It is a self-organizing, community-focused, and user-run mini-conference.

After orientation, everyone goes to the board on the wall where there is a big spreadsheet tacked up. It has rooms as columns and times as rows. If you have a good idea, or want to talk about something, you write it on a stick-note or an index card and put it on a time slot and room assignment. You go to the ones you want to go to.

Most of the sessions are not "talks" with a speaker going through powerpoint slides for 30 minutes, but rather a guided group discussion, where each member of the community is both student and teacher. Now that's a world I want to be a part of.



p.s. sorry 'bout the crooked pic