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barcamp & coworking united we stand...as starfish
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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
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the legend of barcamp
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http://flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnson/111947568/
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http://flickr.com/photos/hjl/35798305/
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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”
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the next barcamp took place in...
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what is barcamp?
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Ryanne Hodsen - “What the heck is Barcamp?”
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1.empty grid
2.a space
3.wifi (preferable, but not necessary)
4.people (present or virtual)
5.willingness to risk
what you need...
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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
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barcamp around the world
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brussels
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portland
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shanghai
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bangalore
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vancouver
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milano
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paris
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palo alto
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there have been more than 400 barcamps on 5 continents and in over 250 cities worldwide
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barcamp deviations
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transitcamp
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iphonedevcamp
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woolfcamp
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barcamp press
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•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
barcamp stats
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this is just the beginning
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What is Coworking?
Coworking is a movement to create a community of cafe-like collaboration spaces for developers, writers and independents.
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citizen space, san francisco
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independent’s hall, philadelphia, pa
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cubes and crayons, menlo park, ca
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cowork central, buenos aires
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la cantine, paris
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caroline collective, houston, tx
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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
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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
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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)
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licensing:
http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue
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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/
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Tara ‘missrogue’ Hunt
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