On the 15th of December there will be a Barcamp held at 575 Chapel Road, at Botany Downs Secondary College. Barcamp Auckland is an event I've been thinking about since the start of the year. I got permission from my school to use their campus for the event and then created the obligatory Barcamp.org wiki page. Now I've decided it's time to get serious, spread the word and finalise the last details for the event.

Everyone is an expert at something. BarCamp allows creatives, technologists, scientists, programmers, and bloggers the chance to gather together and share new ideas. It's about passion, creating community, and exploring new social media. The difference between a traditional conference, and an un-conference like BarCamp is that BarCamps allow people to interact with speakers throughout the presentations. At a traditional conference the best ideas originate in the hallways and corridors. BarCamp is all corridor - Erica O'Grady

Barcamp is a free event that will be open to anyone interested in web technologies- whether they are developers, designers, bloggers or technologists. The event will encourage open discussion amongst attendees and will be focused around "sessions" that those present at the start of the BarcampAuckland event will put forth and vote on. For more information about BarCampAuckland please visit BarcampAuckland's portal page.

Sign up at Upcoming

If you are interested in attending the event please follow it on Upcoming, however for those of you who know you will attend, please register your attendance on Upcoming. We need to know the numbers when we order things like the t-shirts and food, create charging stations for your laptops as well as finalizing the amount of rooms and which spaces we need. So, register your attendance or interest at Upcoming.

Sign up, it's free!

If you want to register your attendance for BarcampAuckland please do so at the registration page, if you've already signed up at Upcoming please do so again at our own registration page. This allows us to collect more data at registration so that we can get more organised! Thanks

We need your help!

BarcampAuckland will be going ahead on the 15th of December - really, all we need is people to hold such an event - but we need your help to make this event uber-cool. BarcampAuckland will be a free event which means we have no revenue to pay for things like the morning tea, lunch or the awesome event t-shirts that we'd love to give away to attendees. If you or your company would be able to sponsor any of the previously stated items (morning tea, lunch or the t-shirts) or you know of another way you could help us out, then please contact me using barcampauckland [at] ludwignz [dot] com. Any and all help is appreciated.