Presentation on Barcamp for Thinking Digital UK

1. barcamp & coworking united we stand...as starfish

2. starfish organizations are:
• autonomous individuals & teams [legs]
• decentralized
• distributed
• united through common ideology & goals
• there needs to be creators, catalysts & champions to grow them [no single
‘leader’]
• intrinsically motivated

3. the legend of barcamp

4. http://flickr.com/photos/ryansking/37039683/

5. http://flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnson/111947568/

7. http://flickr.com/photos/hjl/35798305/

8. http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/35781056/

9. BarCamp stats
• 6 days to organize (from idea to inception)
• 6 planners
• 200 people showed up
• featured in Wired Magazine
• people around the world watched and said...”I can do that”

10. the next barcamp took place in...

12. what is barcamp?

13. Ryanne Hodsen - “What the heck is Barcamp?”

14. what you need...
1.empty grid
2.a space
3.wifi (preferable, but not necessary)
4.people (present or virtual)
5.willingness to risk

15. rules of barcamp
• You DO talk about Bar Camp (and blog)
• If you want to present, you must write your topic and
name in a presentation slot on the empty grid.
• As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
• No pre-scheduled presentations.
• If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to
present. (Ok, you don’t really HAVE to, but try to find

16. barcamp around the world

17. brussels

18. portland

19. shanghai

20. bangalore

21. vancouver

22. milano

23. paris

24. palo alto

25. there have been more than 400 barcamps on
5 continents and in over 250 cities worldwide

26. barcamp deviations

30. transitcamp

31. iphonedevcamp

32. woolfcamp

34. barcamp press

38. barcamp stats
• 400+ barcamps worldwide
• 56,190 Photos on Flickr tagged ‘barcamp’
• 46,129 blog posts about barcamp
• over 30k people have been to barcamp
• 625 videos on YouTube
• it is 2.5 years old

39. this is just the beginning

41. What is Coworking?
Coworking is a movement to create a community of
cafe-like collaboration spaces for developers, writers
and independents.

45. citizen space, san francisco

46. independent’s hall, philadelphia, pa

47. cubes and crayons, menlo park, ca

48. cowork central, buenos aires

49. la cantine, paris

50. caroline collective, houston, tx

51. coworking stats
• 35 spaces
• first space: the hat factory June 2006 (post coworking gatherings)
• 1,137 members on the Google Group
• 171 cities in progress with multiple spaces in some cities
• 173 mainstream press articles written about coworking
• 3 appearances on CNN
• 7,270 occurrences of ‘coworking’ in blog posts since June 2006

52. how to start a barcamp
1.go to the wiki and start a page: i.e. barcamp.org/BarCamp_______
2.add your name to that page, then blog about it
3.when there are other names, call a coffee shop meeting to start
organizing
4.talk to local tech businesses to sponsor (max $300 each)
5.find a venue (preferably one people can sleep overnight in)
6.set a date

53. how to participate in coworking
• join the google group: http://groups.google.com/group/coworking
• become a catalyst (i.e. one that makes a space come together for your area)
• become a coworker (i.e. wherever you go, drop into a space and say hi)
• become a space owner
• help out a space owner (i.e. join up coworking, donate time and energy)

54. licensing:
http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue

55. photo credits
• BarCamp Shots: flickr creative commons licensed...search ‘barcamp’
• Citizen Space by hyku: http://flickr.com/photos/hyku/2497370979/
• Caroline Collective by Matthew Wettergreen: http://flickr.com/photos/
organ_printer/2310793367/
• Cubes and Crayons by Felicity: http://flickr.com/photos/
24806355@N08/2339655736/
• Indie Hall by Cyenobite: http://flickr.com/photos/cyenobite/2059916312/
• Cowork Central by Fernando: http://flickr.com/photos/puertobaires/
2340644501/
• La Cantine by Elv: http://flickr.com/photos/elv/2427443695/

56. Tara ‘missrogue’ Hunt
tara@citizenagency.com
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www.citizenagency.com
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