Definition:
A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants.
Similar to an UnConference.
A Bit of BarCamp History:
The name “BarCamp” is a playful allusion to the event’s origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar which is a common placeholder name for something with an unknown value: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing luminary Tim O’Reilly.
The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week, from concept to event, with 200 attendees. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 350 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia.
