June 2006 saw the first BarCamp being held in Cape Town – a co-created (un)conference for SA programmers and web-heads. As a result, many new friendships and business alliances were formed and an off-line trust community started developing. More recently we had the successful PodCamp Cape Town, more specifically focussing on new-media content creators.
The third installment in the Cape Town un-conference series is called *Camp (or StarCamp), it’s being organized be Neil Blakey-Milner and Jonathan Hitchcock. It’s a two day event on the 8-9th December, it’s for all the new-media rock stars – marketers, geeks, entrepreneurs and bloggers. There’s likely to be some great connections to be made and new hacks and opportunities discovered.
Attendance is free, although the organisers ask for your participation in order to attend – by giving a talk, blogging about it, sponsoring, or helping with logistics. Checkout the wiki for more.
It is absolutely categorically NOT targetted at hardcore geeks and programmers – we’re desperately trying to avoid it getting that image, in fact. It might come across as such, because it’s organised by Neil (and I), but that’s just because Neil was the one to try get it off the ground. We really want it to be in the spirit of BarCamp last year, and 27Dinner, PodCamp, and everything else – we’d like a wide range of people and an even wider range of talks, from all angles and walks of life. Please don’t think it’s going to be about coding and technical subjects, and please come along and make sure we get a non-technical viewpoint, too.
Hey Dave,
Thanks for writing about StarCamp, and thanks also for offering to provide an event. Just need a bunch more people to pitch in, and we should have an amazing weekend.
Neil
Thanks chaps. Looking forward to it.
Hey, a really easy way to help out would be to Muti this post:)
Wow, the legends are at it again! Sounds like a very exciting event!!! Would love to be there myself, but not sure if I will be able to make it. Let’s see how it goes…
I’m training on Blogging on the Saturday morning. So I’ll be there for the Saturday afternoon and the Sunday. I’m sure it’s going to be a fantastic event. I’ll try to sponsor something for the event!
Hey Dave, looking forward to attending this one since I missed the Podcamp. Hope to meet you guys that side. If you install that share-this plugin with the muti added it’ll be easier to mutify this post. http://www.nomad-one.com/2007/10/23/muti-now-part-of-our-favourite-bookmarking-wordpress-pluging/