BarCampManchester 7/28

[Alex Hewitt]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 11:25 -0400, Ted Roche wrote:
> kenta wrote:
> > Anyone here attending BarCampManchester (http://barcampmanchester.org/) or 
> > maybe previously attended one of these events?
> 
> I thought Alex Hewitt reported back about the past Bar Camp at Amoskeag
> Business Incubator in Manchester, but I don't seem to find it in the
> archives. He thought it was worthwhile.
> 
> > Sounds interesting despite the use of the word "unconference" :/
> 
> Unconferences can be excellent or they can be chaos. I went to
> FUDConBoston 2007 and thought they pulled off the on-the-fly
> organization of the event very well: around 15 or 20 volunteers stood
> up, pitched a one-minute idea for a session, and we voted on who wanted
> to see what. Popular topics got the big rooms; less popular, smaller.
> Shuffle around the schedule to eliminate the one-person-in-two-places
> issues and - viola! - a conference schedule was born. It was worked out
> over a coffee break, and I thought it worked far better than I expected.
> 
> 

Bill Sconce and I attended the Manchester Bar Camp at the Amoskeag
Business Incubator. I had an office there so I provided some of the
wireless access. Bill actually had time to participate in at least a
couple of sessions and I think the attendees had a good time. 

-Alex