m@adie

Geek Community and BarCamp

Julien at in over your head posted this blog entry Montreal… needs… brains…….. which sparked a flurry of comments about the state of geekery and the geek community in Montreal. His blog continues the discussion with the entry Montreal has brains?. Robin at IM2 | OQP adds to the discussion with Montreal, action !, and I myself…


I haven’t been paying enough attention to the tech community lately to truly be entitled to an opinion, but I do have geek friends, I do work geek jobs, I do know that there is a fairly large community here, and I’m feeling an interest in probing the edges of possibility…

Enter BarCamp, and more specifically BarCamp Montreal; If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of BarCamp you can checkout this entry in Wikipedia. I have never attended one of these things, and I don’t have anything to demo, but I think that I will attend the Feb 27th event at the SAT to get a sense of what it’s all about.

The dates of the Montreal BarCamp activities are as follows:

DemoCampMontreal1 – Tues/Mar Feb 27, 2007
DemoCampMontreal2 – Thurs/Jeu Mar 29, 2007
BarCampMontreal2 – Sat/Sam Apr 28, 2007
RoCoCoCamp – May/Mai 18-20, 2007