BarCamp Baltics 2008

From February 8 to 10, 2008, 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 in Riga (Latvia). 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 BarCamp audience will consist of 300-400 IT specialists, bloggers, site owners. BarCamp is a great place to share experiences, make new acquaintances, create a common vision for the development of new media.

This event is held in the Baltic for the first time and is planned hereinafter as an annual event. However, many of the participants already have experience in holding such meetings from the Kiev blog Camp.
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Non-Conference will be held in the format of BarCamp, which was formed in 2005 in Silicon Valley, where the first conference of this kind was held. This format quickly gained popularity in the field of IT in America and Western Europe. Barcamp is called “non-conference” to highlight its informal and informal mood, which is created in open discussions during the event.

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

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

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

The unique component of non-conference is the incubator for new projects. This part of the event is intended for the presentation of ideas and projects of non-conference participants to receive funding. There are commercial and social grants 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 such an 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 during a specific period of time, which participants will publicly mark in their presentations on the last day of the BarCamp.