Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 : Events

BarCamp [for those of you on the Internet that are dead] is an unconference organized by the Internet/Technology/Whateverelse community and held for humans that like to learn stuff and share ideas with other humans that like to learn stuff. They take place all over the world, all the time, and this past weekend in Los Angeles the formidably awesome Jason Cosper and magnificently awesome Crystal Williams set off BarCampLA-5… and it was AWESOME.

The venue? AOL campus is Beverly F*cking Hills. Talk about a nice interior! This venue was radness, loaded with plenty of space, tons of open areas to relax and socialize in, enough plugs for everyones gadgets, and best of all - there were Barcampers all over the place in it. I guess the folks that were in charge of the property didn’t allow for the traditional overnight slumbering of the campers on the campus - which made it kind of suck for the next morning travel back, thanks to that little event called the LA Marathon taking over the town and blocking streets, but who cares? It was still rad on Day 2 - from what I heard. I had to return to San Diego Saturday night to work with Genevieve Chappell on Sunday

That about covers it… really, I mean - it’s hard to cover what went on at a BarCamp since there’s so much going on… Oh, a couple of highlights were the random Rickrolls committed - which were HILARIOUS, and of course the molestation of the inflatable dalek.

The people I met that I was able to track down on Twitter or Facebook: Strom, Pinguino, Chloe, C. Nelson, Jackie, Mike Lambie - There were also a ton of other folks, but oddly enough, not a lot of card tossing was going on - but there’s always the next BarCamp.