Launching barCamp in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2009.
What is a barCamp, by
the example of
Vitaly Vlasov

History
• 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
by Tim O'Reilly, from concept to
event, with 200 attendees. Tim O'Reilly
• The first BarCamps focuses on early-stage web
applications, and related open source technologies,
social protocols, and open data formats.

What is a barCamp
• BarCamp is an international network of user
generated conferences — open, participatory
workshop-events, whose content is provided by
participants.
• All participants are organizers.
• Web 2.0 in reality!

BarCamps have been held in
over 350 cities around the world

BlogCamp 2007
• The very first barcamp in Easten Europe, focusing
on post-USSR countries.
• 300 attendees.
• 9 countries.
• 60 presentations.
• 800 posts in blogs.
• 80 mentions in the Press.
• Virus ....

barCamps in CIS
Москва

BlogCamp 2008
• Blogcamp CEE 2008 is a three-day conference in Kyiv,
Ukraine on Oct. 17-19th, which is going to gather 500
new media specialists, bloggers, start-upers and
investors from Central and Eastern Europe. Those
interested in CEE region are also welcome.
• Format: all about new media: blogs, social
media, podcasting, citizen journalism, etc.
• Ragion: Central and Eastern Europe

A bit about schedule...
• There is no the planned schedule of
appearances in advance. All participants have
been writing down their presentations on the
big empty board from the morning.
• 1 presentation — 1 cell — 30 minutes.
• 6 parallel sections.

Day 1. This is participant-
generated schedule.

Day 2. This is participant-
generated schedule.

BlogCamp Events
• Best Ukrainian Blog Awards (BUBA).
• Investor Day and Start-up contest.

Investor Day
• 126 projects from 9 countries: Czechia,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Poland,
Russia, Romania and Ukraine. 10 projects
reached the final and have been competing in
two nominations:
• Seed Stage
• Early Growth Stage

Investor Day
• Experts: from DFJ, one of the greatest funds in the
World; Mangrove – the most succesful european
fund; ABRT from Russia, also funds from USA, Poland,
Poland, Baltic countries, UK, Luxemburg, Holland,
France, Norway.
• 32 investors.
• 5 startups started negotiations about funding before
the final.
• 2 startups got Term Sheet.
• P-Navigator has been invested.

Sponsors?..
• Partners of Blogcamp CEE 2008 were:
Microsoft (Freedrinks  ), Opera, ASUS,
Profeo, etc.
• Also Yandex, Gemius, Google, Begun, Meta
UA, Rambler, Profeo, Kaspersky Lab, etc.
• Web (and the wonderful logo) – World Web
Studio

Summary
• 821 attendees.
• 15 countries.
• 100 presentations.

Start-up contest
• DomVsem
DomVsem is a real estate portal and search engine that will
deliver flexible search, accurate results, property visualization,
advanced mapping, etc.
• Hippocrat
1) unified and easily accessible storage of their medical records,
2) background check of a doctor's reputation, and
3) getting a second opinion to support diagnosis of their current
doctor.

Start-up contest
• Relenta
Relenta replaces five types of software by combining the
functionality of shared email, contact manager, online
calendar, task manager, and email newsletter marketing
software into one elegant CRM-like application.
• TalkFest
is designated to unite people with similar interests and give
them an opportunity to create information, share it with
others and earn money on this.
• Youstyler
localized social network of fashion-obsessed people. It relies on
users' interest in streetwear

Start-up contest
• ClienteQ
is a collaborative CRM solution that is open to clients. It is a
shared collaboration space where your team and your client's
team can plan meetings, track project status, etc.
• DeepMemo
is the information processor, which helps any reader of Web to
easily work with information - to cut information (quotes,
pieces of text and/or pictures), save, organize and share these
quotes online, one-click.
• TuneStory
is a service making iPod and iPhone devices more social. User
can generate musical recommendations
on-the-go right from her iPod

Start-up contest
• P-Navigator
is a tool for professional information search and retrieval. It runs
on top of existing search engines, analyzing, enhancing and
restructuring their results and providing end-users with
semantics-centered GUI
• Alltunedin
to provide easy-to-use on-demand solution to build and manage
niche social networks for businesses and organizations. They
have already tested alpha product at the Russian market
(http://vsevteme.ru/) and collected positive customer
references in this segment.

Winners
• Hippocrat (Seed Stage)
• ClienteQ (Early Growth Stage).
• Winners get invitations at Silicon Valley Open
Doors 2009.

http://blogcampcee.com/

BarCamp will be in Saint-
Petersburg, Russia in 2009!
Join to organize or attend!

• Russia is not only oil, gaz and the Kremlin!
• Saint-Petersburg is not only culture capital of Russia
and the biggest science and educational centre...
• Russia is new features and new perspectives...
• Saint-Petersburg is the cradle of innovations in Russia!

Underlying principles
• New media: blogs, social media and social networks,
microblogging, podcasting, online broadcasting, etc.
• Disruptive and advanced technologies (virtual worlds,
Enterprise 2.0, Semantic Web, mashups, etc).
• Innovations and investment in the Internet start-ups.
• You will be able to find like-minded persons.
• You will be able to talk with and listen to professionals.
• Find or build new teams and new projects on the event.

http://openwebrussia.org
If you want to participate in organizing of the Event, let
me know — Vitaly Vlasov, inxaoc@gmail.com

BarCamp Санкт-Петербург
2009
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