BarCamp

English Alternative forms en barcamp Etymology From en bar camp metasyntactic variable, created as an alternative to Foo Camp. Noun A form of user-generated conference (or unconference) originally focused on technology and the web. en Kim Hart Twittering Types Share Ideas Offline 2008-10-20 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901400.html The Washington Post 0190-8286 The event was the second iteration of Washington's version of BarCamp, a technology workshop meant to demonstrate new business ideas and promote discussion of the top tech issues: social media, open source and how to actually make money, to name a few. https://web.archive.org/web/20241127064443/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901400.html 27 November 2024 en 2012 Adam Crowe Disasters 2.0: The Application of Social Media Systems for Modern Emergency Management CRC Press 9781439874424 208 https://books.google.com/books?id=fxbCfEGvrB0C&pg=PA208&dq=%22BarCamps%22&hl=&cd=5&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22BarCamps%22&f=false BarCamps are held throughout the world as workshop-style events open to anyone who wants to participate and is willing to share content and information on the BarCamp wiki site. The earliest BarCamps focused on web applications through open-sourced technologies and open data formats. Further reading