What is BarCamp?

BarCamp (oft uncoference) is gathering of users with public workshops and lectures, their content and progress were developed by participants at the beginning of the meeting and are developed at futher progress. BarCamp used to share ideas, to discuss, for learning and develop and the product of that work can already be seen in part at the end of the event with demonstrating concrete results (eg joint workshop program).

History

BarCamp name is an allusion to a series of events organized by Tim O’Reily, who called FooCamp. Selected individuals (friends of O’Reilly) would meet for mutal exchange of experience, and would stay and spend the night (camping). Participants in FooCamp could only come at the invitation of the O’Reilly’s. At BarCamp is coming without an invitation, and everyone can participate.

The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto (CA) of 19-21. August 2005 in the premises of the company Socialtex and was organized in less then a week, from concept to the event. On it was attended by about 200 people. After that’s BarCamp are organized over 350 cities around the world, North America, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Asia.

To mark the first anniversary of BarCamp, a BarCampEarth held simultaneosly at several locations in the world from 25-27. August 2006. Marking the second anniversary, BarCampBlock was held in Palo Alto at the original location within a radius of more than three blocks of 18-19. August 2007, and it was attended by over 800 people.

The largest recorded BarCamp took place in February 2011 with over 4700 registered participants in Yangon, the Myanmar (Burma). Previous year (January 2010) BarCamp Yangon attracted over 2700 participants (registered participants).

LUGoNS BarCamp

LUGoNS first BarCamp will be held on Saturday o1. December in Novi Sad at Aurora hotel starting from 12.00 last until about 20.00 hours. The sole aim of this first meeting is to awaken a sleeping community and return to the dynamics of events in Novi Sad. All communities in the region are more than welcome. We hope that we will be in large numbers.

On this occasion, once more, we invite you to magnify our set with your presence, so we can socialize, share knowledge, make new friends and expand ours horizons.

Currently logged-themes are:
– Tecniques of attack on web services
– Develop and test (gerrit and jenkins)
– Orchestration server (puppet)
– Getting started with microcontrollers (Arduino)
– Retrocomputing
– Hack your all politics
– BalCCon, LUGoNS, Hackerspace
– TOOLX – GNU/Linux
– Workshop: Learn to crimp (the crimpting process by which the end of the line or network cable installed special connectors).
– Discussion: How to animate people to participate more actively in the community and communicate more with each other?

Do not hesitate and feel free to contact us if you have the desire and the need to actively participate in BarCamp-in, and to annouce your topic. All you have to do is send an email to office@lugons.org

Admission is free!

Date:
Saturday, 01 December 2012. year from 12.00 – 20.00h

Location:

Hotel Aurora
Belgrade quay 49b
21000 Novi Sad
Web: www.hotelaurora.rs

Affordable and cheap accommodation options:

Hostel Sova
Hostel Downtown
Hostel Podbara
Smile Hostel

Eeasterhegg 2012
Where: Basel, Switzerland
When: April 06. –  09. 2012

The first international presentation BalCCon projects was held at the Easterhegg 2012 congress in Basel, Switzerland. milobit and zxy were the speakers for lighting talk which lasted 10 minutes. Spoken language: German.

During the presentation few points were taken:

• BalCCon is a first Balcan hackers congress. Although there is a huge number of people interested in that activity, there is no similar manifestation in our region.
• As a grown-up community, we are willing to organize this kind of event, to all the people who have no financial support to visit American or European congresses.
• We see it as a great opportunity to meat people with similar interests, to share knowledge and experience and all of that at our neighborhood.
• Our goal is to gather and link as many communities as possible to make solid base for further projects.
• Congress is planned for September 2013.  Location: Novi Sad, official language: English.
•      We are planning a huge international gathering of communities and free lensers with a lot of opportunities for hacking, gaming, learning, networking and of course partying.
•     Our speakers are very satisfied with the response and interest in people for a BalCCon presentation. They have met a lot of new people and made a many contacts. Everybody really liked our idea, and they are all willing to support it.

The first international BalCCon presentation.

BalCCon – Balkan Computer Congress – warmup part one

Where: CK13, LUGoNS Lab, Novi Sad
When: March 23- 24 2012.

On Friday 23rd March was held an informal gathering of all interested in BalCCon project was held. It was opportunity to meet members of many Serbian GNU/Linux communities, and to exchange information about events and news.

On Saturday 24th March was held a meeting about BalCCon Congress at the LUGoNS central office, from 2:00 p.m. LUGoNS, Slackware Serbia, Linux Mint Serbia, Ubuntu Serbia, CK13 (partner organization) and numerous guests from abroad were attending.

On this meeting we have successfully defined our further steps and a plan of actions.

Official BalCCon website will be available soon. There will be the registration form where all interested in taking a part will be able to participate and to contribute with their skills and abilities.

Official BalCCon Blog is a place where you can  find all information about BalCCon Congress preparations and promotion.

We have developed a detailed plan for better promotion of BalCCon Congress.

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