BarCamp

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On Oct 13, 2008 members of the BarCampOrlando community will be organizing an ad-hoc BarCamp session as a part of the Create Chaos conference. Create Chaos 2008 is a five-day creative industry destination event produced to inform, inspire, educate, and connect creative professionals across industries through an all-inclusive event. This ad-hoc session invites participants to control the programming by preparing a 20 minute talk on any creative topic and presenting it to other conference attendees (so, bring your laptop). The fun starts at 6pm.

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BarCamp Tampa 2008 conference will be the first in the Bay area for this unusual technology and new media conference.

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Tampa, FL – August 8, 2008 – BarCamp Tampa 2008: the interactive BarCamp conference (http://barcamptampabay.com/) will take place October 11-12, 2008 at the University of South Florida College of Business in Tampa. This is the first year for a BarCamp event in Tampa and will bring together thought leaders from technology and New Media to explore exciting new developments in their fields.

Exciting news: I was informed that Florida Creatives and BarCamp Orlando were named "Best way to staff your social networking startup" by the Orlando Weekly as part of their annual Best of Orlando issue.

Location(s)

Create Chaos 2008. One week. Ten shows. Thousands of creative professionals.

Create Chaos is a concept that speaks to the evolution of our industries — a “create-a-palooza” that will bring together some of the most interesting, educational and inspirational creative industry conferences simultaneously — and all in one location.

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Today at BarCamp I suggested we create a "secret" handshake for Florida Creatives members or people who are involved in the local community.

Here are some suggestions: hugs, peace sign, hang loose, three-fingered wave, etc.

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From the BarCamp Orlando web site.

Fantastic job everyone. Discussion leaders, photographers, participants (could have been more participating, honestly) and especially organizers. Orlando is putting itself on the map with events like this, and will only continue to gain the eyes of the world.

I can't wait for BlogOrlando on Friday. That's right, it wasn't last week. I heard that a few times where people thought BarCamp was the Sunday of BlogOrlando instead of the Sunday before.

Chris Messina is one of the thought leaders behind some of the concepts we here at Florida Creatives subscribe to: Coworking and BarCamp are the big ones. He made a great post today that seemed to be writing itself in my head as I was reading it. The short version is this: We don't want to be like San Francisco. It's true. My idea is that we want to be a better Orlando, or Tampa, or South Florida.

Someone sent me an email this morning saying that OrlandoSentinel.com was running a story on the upcoming BarCamp on Sept 23rd at Taste. The article is "A gathering of the geeks", and it sports a picture of a few people's hands and Jason Siefer's head (and one unidentified programmer, but I think he's an ORUG guy too).

Here's the most quotable part of the article by Wes Smith:

That means (I think) Birth Certificate - "The Creators". Larry Diehl just wrote a post over at the BarCampOrlando blog called "Orlando's Web Renaissance", but Renaissance really means "rebirth". I don't think the world has ever issued us with a creative birth certificate in the first place. I will agree that we're participating in a rebirth of culture, and enabling technologies have quite a bit to do with that, but enablers are nothing without the people to enable.