BarCamping in Waterloo Region this Fall
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on August 13, 2007 at 12:25 AM
It has been just over a year now since I had put some serious thought into holding a BarCampWaterloo. Since then there have been four successful BarCamps, a couple DemoCamps down highway 7 in Guelph, and a few lunches to discuss making things grow even more. The regular community is small (30-40 people) and made up of a mix of students and entrepreneurs that have produced some cool things like AideRSS. A Facebook group exists now, a Google group, a WatCamp space to document it all, and we keep trying to figure out ways to get the word out.
What is next? Well this Fall will see BarCampWaterloo on September 22nd, StartupCampWaterloo is being discussed for the following month, and DemoCampGuelph will be held again sometime in November hopefully. Three un-conference events that are free and open to the community in the next four months.
What can you do? If you are interested, please come out. Although we encourage everyone to participate you are more than welcome to just lurk in the audience. You can bring someone with you to BarCampWaterloo, don’t come alone. Blog, post in facebook, and talk about BarCampWaterloo if you have been to one of the previous events. They are a great way to spend a day.