Сьогодні розпочали підготовку до BlogCamp-2007, який має відбутися в Києві у жовтні. Євген Морозов, з яким познайомились у Москві, запропонував влаштувати в Україні зустріч блогерів, громадянських журналістів, IT-шників та інших представників New media з СНД та країн Балтії у новому незвичайному форматі - BarCamp.
На заході існує вже ціла культура таких Bar camps.
Нижче розповім про неї більш докладно.
BlogCamp CIS and Baltics
What's a BlogCamp? First of all, BlogCamp is a BarCamp...
Please read the following articles to learn more about the culture of BarCamps
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Duration: 2 days (Saturday-Sunday)
Time: early October 2007
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Target audience : bloggers, IT professionals, high-tech entrepreneurs, representatives of leading citizen journalism and social media projects from the region, representatives of media development/NGO organizations, journalists/editors from traditional media
Target region: CIS+Baltics
Language : approximately 75% of all sessions will be in Russian, 25% in English but these numbers depend on the actual preferences of the presenters and are flexible
Number of events: we plan to have about 4-5 simultaneous presentations each lasting about 20 minutes. Thus, in two days there will be around 150 slots for presentations (we expect some participants to repeat their presentations and/or present on more than one topic). We are expecting around 70-80 genuine presentations, . In two days, each participant should be able to attend about 18 full sessions (all of them on a different topic!)
Multimedia : all talks will be recorded and posted online
Structure : all presenters that know their topic/issues in advance would be able to put it on the conference's wiki; all others will be able to add their presentations on the whiteboard during the event itself. The first hours of each day of the conference will be devoted to a short preview of all sessions (each presenter will be given 2 minutes and 5 slides to describe what the conference is going to be about)
Number of participants: estimated at around 200 but not necessarily capped (a prior sign-up and confirmation would be necessary)
Goals of the BlogCamp CIS and Baltics
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Introduce participants to the format of unconferences and barcamps with the objective to encourage them organize them on a local level
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Facilitate knowledge sharing particularly about successful/unsuccessful projects started/run by the participants
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Improve communication among regional bloggers/offer the platform for networking
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Discuss future cross-border cooperation projects
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Brainstorm about the ways to introduce/promote/localize the work of such organizations/projects as Creative Commons, Global Voices Online, Wikipedia, NewsAssignment, etc
Conditions
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No participation fee--attendance of the event is free
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To attend, one simply needs to add the name/affiliation to the conference's wiki
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The conference will have a special fund to spent on travel/accommodation support, to allow the maximum number of talented bloggers to attend. We expect to have a very strong contingent from Ukraine (since it's in Kyiv), Belarus and Russia (since they are both nearby), the Baltics (they have the most advanced new media scene). Most effort would need to go to identifying/bringing talented bloggers from Central Asia and the Caucuses.
Tentative organizing committee:
Evgeny Morozov (Transitions Online), Gleb Kanunnikau (pozirk.org), Aliaxek Lyavonchik (pozirk.org), Oleksander Demchenko (moblog.kiev.ua), Serhiy Danilenko (www.hw.net.ua), Maksim Bereza (journal.lv), Arturs Mednis (www.jaffa.lv), Rostislav Vylegzhanin (http://realno.info)
