24 July 2007
ALTERthought is sponsoring BarCampRDU
Our team will be one of the sponsors for the 2007 edition of BarCamp in Raleigh-Durham to be held on August 4, 2007 at RedHat’s Raleigh campus. We were attendees last year and found the sessions to be invigorating and exciting - demonstrating the emerging vitality of the RDU area for emerging technology and business concepts. Fred Stutzman, a co-founder of Claim ID, is one of the coordinators of the event. You can find out how to help by visiting Fred’s blog.
About BarCamp -
“A Bar Camp is an unconference where people interested in a wide range of technologies come together to teach and learn. Unfamiliar with the un-conference format? Here’s the idea in a nutshell. Rather than having scheduled speakers, everyone pitches sessions the morning of the BarCamp. Those sessions are put on a schedule, and lots of little groups form for intense group learning. Everyone is expected to teach, to talk, to participate. Yeah, its different from a regular conference - but it works!
The idea of an unconference came together when people realized the best times they were having at conferences were the times between sessions - where people with like interests could meet ad hoc. The goal of BarCamp is to facilitate this type of interaction for an entire day. We supply the food, the space, the wireless, the projectors - you show up to teach and learn. “
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