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We’re looking forward to BarCampBlock in San Francisco this weekend: “almost two years ago, a group of 6 San Francisco geeks in 7 days, using blogs, wikis and IRC slapped together a weekend conference with wifi, food and amazing presentations in Palo Alto, California. This was a different kind of conference, though. There were no superstar keynote speakers. There were no pre-programmed agendas. There was a brilliant agenda filled with content by and for the attendees. Everyone, including the sponsors, the organizers, the speakers and the audience were involved in making the event happen equally and were often one and the same. Over the weekend, more than 200 people showed up and people watched remotely from all over the world. This event was BarCamp …. Since that first BarCamp, there have been over 150 Camps worldwide, as far away as Chennai, India and Sydney, Australia. Nearly 10,000 people have participated in BarCamp and even more have been ‘touched’ because these events tend to lead to a longer term creation of a local technology enthusiast community in many of these locations.”

BarCamp made it to Miami earlier this year, an event Scrapblog sponsored (Note: I organized BarCampMiami with the help of the University of Miami). We’re also looking forward to BarCampOrlando in September and DemoCampMiami in October.