Bristol BarCamp 09, first planning meeting is on 10th July

by Kevin on July 3, 2009 · Comments

Local Goc Camp
What is a BarCamp?  Well, according to Wikipedia

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants

There has been at least one previous BarCamp in Bristol but recently Central and Local Government have also discovered Barcamp.

We are now looking to organise a Bristol BarCamp and the first planning meeting will be held at i-Shed, The Bristol Pervasive Media Studio on 10th July from 4pm.

Personally, I want to see if we can have a Bristol BarCamp that brings together Councillors, Local Gov and Public Sector Managers, Social Web and Eco experts to come up with some green-digital-bristol-innovation but that’s just my thing…  it is an open planning meeting so come along and say what you want from Bristol BarCamp.

Confusingly, I am posting this from Kevin’s Wordpress account.  If anyone wants to email me to discuss then its stephen.hilton@bristol.gov.uk

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Tagged as: Bristol, Bristol Barcamp, community, Council, governement, Localgov camp

  • Stephen Hilton
    Hi Ed, I know Ning, great site/facility... but blocked by many council's filters, (too risky?!). I don't know pathable or crowdvine... yet!
  • Ed
    Good work all; sounds interesting indeed.

    Pre-event there is always pathable or crowdvine, or using ning would be good for following up etc... depends on the purpose of the event...

    Look forward to next meet up :)
  • Stephen Hilton
    Thanks to everyone who came along to Friday's barcamp planning meeting, which saw the first (and possibly not the last) person walk out in anger.

    In a nutshell, people are happy to go for it, probably in October. We need to find a venue that will cope with 100 people (we have some ideas including the new Museum of Bristol). We need to decide if this is a Localgov camp, or a digital city camp... or a combination of the two. We need to decide how important it is to sign people up to follow-up actions. We need to see how much Bristol CC will commit to following-up on ideas. Our friends at Delib will explore what they can offer by way of pre-event on line support. Our soon-to-be-friends at Huddle are also keen to help support the event. We might invite Dave Briggs down to talk to us

    More to follow soon
  • Stephen Hilton
    Hi Tim, thanks. I agree but... I know that others have more varied interests than local government, such as combining eco innovation and social media. The 09 event could be broad enough to address several themes, or focussed on one - it is up to the open planning group to decide... come along!

    Stephen
  • Hi,

    I was one of the organisers of the first BarCamp Bristol, and latterly BathCamp (in Bath, unsurprisingly).

    From my point of view, it would be good to say "this is LocalGovCamp (which is using the BarCamp format)" rather than saying "This is Bristol BarCamp". I don't wish to seem possessive of the name, but generic BarCamps generally don't have a particular theme or focus, whereas this event is going to be focused on Local Government issues.

    Best of luck with the event.
  • Great stuff! Awesome that Bristol seem to be the first to pick up the LocalGovCamp baton!
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