barcamp and coworking: united we stand...as starfish

barcamp & coworking united we stand...as starfish

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

the legend of barcamp

http://flickr.com/photos/ryansking/37039683/

http://flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnson/111947568/

http://flickr.com/photos/hjl/35798305/

http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/35781056/

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”

the next barcamp took place in...

what is barcamp?

Ryanne Hodsen - “What the heck is Barcamp?”

1.empty grid

2.a space

3.wifi (preferable, but not necessary)

4.people (present or virtual)

5.willingness to risk

what you need...

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

barcamp around the world

brussels

portland

shanghai

bangalore

vancouver

milano

palo alto

there have been more than 400 barcamps on 5 continents and in over 250 cities worldwide

barcamp deviations

transitcamp

iphonedevcamp

woolfcamp

barcamp press

•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

this is just the beginning

What is Coworking?

Coworking is a movement to create a community of cafe-like collaboration spaces for developers, writers and independents.

citizen space, san francisco

independent’s hall, philadelphia, pa

cubes and crayons, menlo park, ca

cowork central, buenos aires

la cantine, paris

caroline collective, houston, tx

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

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

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)

licensing:

http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue

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/

Tara ‘missrogue’ Hunt

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