Preso from Susan Mernit/Tara Hunt/elisa Camahort Page/Kaliya Hamlin panel on unconferences, barcamps and grassroots conferences

3. What is BarCamp? Wikipedia : BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

5. BarCamp Block, Palo Alto, Aug 2007

6. Over 800 people attended Self-organized, openspace format, kids area

8. BlogHer 2005: One conference with 300 attendees 2008: Eight events, reaching 2,500 people, plus Second Life conference & presence

9. Community input drives intense engagement

10. OpenSpace & Unconferences Wikipedia : An unconference is a facilitated participant-driven face-to-face conference around a theme or purpose. The term unconference has been applied, often self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference such as high fees and sponsored presentations

11. Unconferences & Open Space “ There is a role for skilled facilitation and event design that someone who has experience doing it can bring to the table for communities - particularly professional technical ones that want to get real work done.”

15. Discussion—The HOW TOs: What makes open space, mash-ups & unconferences work? What are the best practices? How do you get started? How do you get the word out? How do you keep costs low?

16. Resources BarCamps: barcamp.org Citizen Agency:citizenagency.com IdentityWoman: identitywoman.net Open Space: openspaceworld.org BlogHer: blogher.com or elisa@blogher.com