ICamp-2008: Do you want to disperse the site? Ask Kohl - how!
Arriving on Friday at 11 am, we found a half-asleep camp - several dozen yurts, tourist tents, Indian tepees and long houses on stilts similar to townhouses scattered randomly on a spacious field of 80 hectares.
Narrow wooden bridges connecting the houses sometimes rose to a height of 2 meters. Their main task apparently was to protect the shoes of tourists from wet grass (or deep snow in the winter?). However, they also performed another role - they were guides for those who at night cannot find their way into the yurt.
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On the footbridge, crumpled up camp prisoners walked in to meet - bankers (in appearance - cashiers) from Obninsk, just students who were just fascinated by the Internet. In general, anyone, but not those Internet users, which can be found on the RIF. The bankers jumped off the bridge and lazily reached for field-based corporate games and trainings.
Apparently the official start at 11-00 was not. Due to the lack of an audience.
All scenes were empty. Looking ahead, I note that they were empty in the afternoon as well. A typical ICamp landscape: the background is a green field with whitening "ethnic" buildings, and in the foreground is an empty stage and empty chairs. For example, like this:
Closer to the hour a few Internet activists gathered under the roof-tent from mail.ru. It was the most active platform: presentations of start-ups were non-stop, sometimes taking turns communicating in groups.
Most of all, I remember the social network professionali.ru , which somewhere “cut down” (or say they cut down) $ 2 million of investments. From the dialogues:
- ... My Circle lost - because it ceased to be profiled. He has a blurred audience. We will beat the professionals into a narrow niche. Our goal is 500 thousand (1 million?) Registered users ...
- Is there so many professionals in RuNet?
- Ukraine will help us!
- And where will you spend $ 2 million?
- We buy equipment.
At the same time, there was a discussion on government topics in a narrow, long room with windows overlooking the pool - a green water bath:
But the center of all ICamp was a blackboard with a schedule of events. The fact is that the schedule in razdatka completely did not correspond to reality. Presentations were often disrupted due to the non-appearance (non-wake-up?) Of speakers. The leaves on the board were glued every hour. The events, or rather their name or description, were also curious in and of themselves:
After 17-00, when from the active sites remained inflexible mail.ru tent and field BTL from HeadHunter ...
... there was a general expectation of the evening - we got whiskey from our backpacks, Internet users, equipped with barbecues and sleeping bags, drove up to the parking lot, put columns and brought bundles of firewood on the edges of the field.
I think that instead of “an international informal conference of Internet activists in the barcamp format” (by the way, the desire to get acquainted with this format made me go to ICamp) was more straightforward to call, for example: “for those who stayed in Moscow - an unofficial, night program RIFA, stretched for 3 days.
PS The rest of the pictures ...
Typical representative of Ethnomir:
Native American Tipi:
Yurts close-up:
Residents of the yurt:
Inside the yurt:
Inside the townhouse:
At the entrance to the townhouse:
Future ethno-castle:
From local art:
Bench near the central (and only) case:
The river near the village of Sovyaki, Kaluga region (10 km from the A108 bypass):
In the village shop:
Narrow wooden bridges connecting the houses sometimes rose to a height of 2 meters. Their main task apparently was to protect the shoes of tourists from wet grass (or deep snow in the winter?). However, they also performed another role - they were guides for those who at night cannot find their way into the yurt.
')
On the footbridge, crumpled up camp prisoners walked in to meet - bankers (in appearance - cashiers) from Obninsk, just students who were just fascinated by the Internet. In general, anyone, but not those Internet users, which can be found on the RIF. The bankers jumped off the bridge and lazily reached for field-based corporate games and trainings.
Apparently the official start at 11-00 was not. Due to the lack of an audience.
All scenes were empty. Looking ahead, I note that they were empty in the afternoon as well. A typical ICamp landscape: the background is a green field with whitening "ethnic" buildings, and in the foreground is an empty stage and empty chairs. For example, like this:
Closer to the hour a few Internet activists gathered under the roof-tent from mail.ru. It was the most active platform: presentations of start-ups were non-stop, sometimes taking turns communicating in groups.
Most of all, I remember the social network professionali.ru , which somewhere “cut down” (or say they cut down) $ 2 million of investments. From the dialogues:
- ... My Circle lost - because it ceased to be profiled. He has a blurred audience. We will beat the professionals into a narrow niche. Our goal is 500 thousand (1 million?) Registered users ...
- Is there so many professionals in RuNet?
- Ukraine will help us!
- And where will you spend $ 2 million?
- We buy equipment.
At the same time, there was a discussion on government topics in a narrow, long room with windows overlooking the pool - a green water bath:
But the center of all ICamp was a blackboard with a schedule of events. The fact is that the schedule in razdatka completely did not correspond to reality. Presentations were often disrupted due to the non-appearance (non-wake-up?) Of speakers. The leaves on the board were glued every hour. The events, or rather their name or description, were also curious in and of themselves:
After 17-00, when from the active sites remained inflexible mail.ru tent and field BTL from HeadHunter ...
... there was a general expectation of the evening - we got whiskey from our backpacks, Internet users, equipped with barbecues and sleeping bags, drove up to the parking lot, put columns and brought bundles of firewood on the edges of the field.
I think that instead of “an international informal conference of Internet activists in the barcamp format” (by the way, the desire to get acquainted with this format made me go to ICamp) was more straightforward to call, for example: “for those who stayed in Moscow - an unofficial, night program RIFA, stretched for 3 days.
PS The rest of the pictures ...
Typical representative of Ethnomir:
Native American Tipi:
Yurts close-up:
Residents of the yurt:
Inside the yurt:
Inside the townhouse:
At the entrance to the townhouse:
Future ethno-castle:
From local art:
Bench near the central (and only) case:
The river near the village of Sovyaki, Kaluga region (10 km from the A108 bypass):
In the village shop:
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/30529/
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