BarCamp Baltics 2008


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    From February 8 to 10, 2008 in Riga (Latvia) an international non-Conference on new media, blogs, podcasts, social networks, citizen journalism, web 2.0, openSource, and everything connected with it will be held. A distinctive feature of non-conferences is that the entire organizational work on the principles of Web 2.0 is done by the participants themselves.

    The audience of BarCamp will consist of 300-400 IT specialists, bloggers, site owners. BarCamp is a great place to exchange experiences, make new friends, create a common vision for the development of new media.

    This event is held in the Baltics for the first time and is planned further as an annual one. However, many of the participants already have experience holding similar meetings with Kiev Campus.

    The non-conference will be held in the BarCamp format, which was formed in 2005 in Silicon Valley, where the first conference of its kind took place. This format quickly gained popularity in the field of IT in America and Western Europe. Barcamp is called a “non-conference” to emphasize its informal and informal mood, which is created in open discussions during the event.

    The barcamp rules imply the active inclusion of the participants themselves in its organization and conduct: everyone can attend the non-conference, but if you want to participate, you must contribute: make a presentation, conduct a discussion, announce the event on your blog, shoot and upload a video from the conference, help with the organization.

    During the conference, 4-5 sessions (presentations, working groups, speeches, reports, discussions) take place simultaneously. Within two days, about 80 presentations take place, which will be held in both English and Russian.

    Most of the presentations will be posted on the Internet in video format. This feature provides Wi-fi access at the venue of the event.

    A unique component of the non-conference is the incubator of new projects. This part of the event is provided for the presentation of ideas and projects of non-conference participants for funding. Commercial and social grants are provided for financial support for completely new projects and for the development of existing ones.

    The experience of our new media in the Baltic region has shown that many creative and unique ideas are born with very little start-up capital. We want to provide this opportunity to non-conference participants, most of whom already have experience in creating Internet projects. It will be interesting to observe the implementation of these ideas over a specific period of time, which participants will publicly designate at their presentations on the last day of BarCamp.

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