The newest podcast episode: an introduction to BarCamps.
This podcast explains what a BarCamp-style conference is and how it works (at least, how BarCampRDU works), and then goes through the sessions that were pitched. There was a lot of feedback from BarCampRDU that centered around nervousness or confusion about pitches: people thought they had to do something ahead of time or have a pre-rehearsed presentation or be an expert in the field in order to make a pitch. And some people just didn’t get it until it was too late. I really hate hearing, “I would have made a pitch, but I wasn’t sure how to.”
So I created this podcast, which goes through BarCampRDU’s pitch process and then runs through the pitches that were made at BarCampRDU 2009. It features Matt Frye and Tanner Lovelace as unwitting co-hosts, and background music from Durham’s own Permanent4 (a.k.a. Dave of Dave’s Lounge, which I love).
Hopefully this helps people make sense of what’s going on and gets more people involved next year.
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[...] This is just so cool I had to share it: check out this awesome time-lapse of the grid by Tanner Lovelace. Tanner is one of the two unwitting hosts of “What is a BarCamp?”. [...]