There’s a good article on unconferences by Scott Kirsner in next week’s BusinessWeek. He talks about what an unconference is, discusses the rise of the wider community and the potential threat to the traditional conference model.
All in all, he does a pretty good job capturing an accurate picture of the “unconference scene” and it [...]
Category Archives: Barcamp
We found women in tech, so why are you still not reporting about them?
May 8th – 1am
By Chris Messina
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Also posted in Personal, Social justice, Society & economy, Technology
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BarCampAustin, BarCampPlannersSummit and CoworkingMeetup
Mar 9th – 4pm
Hot on the news that BarCampAustin co-organizer Whurley has joined BMC Software as Chief Evil Genius, we’re kicking off the start of BarCamp/Refresh/Dorkbot at Bourbon Rocks in Austin alongside the start of SXSW.
A couple notes… BarCampAustin starts started today and continues into tomorrow (yes, this overlaps with the first day of SXSWi). Highlights include $10 [...]
Under lock and key
Feb 19th – 10am
Daniel Quinn has written about civilization and how agricultural farming is what has brought us to our current environmental predicament. In his books, particularly Ishmael and My Ishmael, he points out putting the food supply under lock and key (as opposed to being readily available for foraging) is a natural outgrowth of agriculture, given its [...]
By Chris Messina
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Also posted in Open source, Personal, Society & economy, The Web Arts
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