"BARCAMP YEREVAN 2009" TO BE HELD APRIL 18-19 IN YEREVAN

ArmenPress
April 17 2009
Armenia

"BarCamp Yerevan 2009" will be held April 18-19 in the capital. It
will gather the specialists of information technologies and the new
media sphere, internet users, bloggers, representatives of companies
dealing with internet and digital technologies, journalists and all
those who use new technologies and the net in their works.

Head of the initiative group Gegham Vardanian told Armenpress that the
event aims at giving the people involved in the sphere an opportunity
to communicate with each other, implement an exchange of experience
and make new initiatives, suggestions.

According to G. Vardanian, 200-300 people mainly from Armenia, Ukraine,
Russia, Georgia and USA are intended to take part in the "BarCamp".

"BarCamp" are called the events on IT, net and new medias which are
held in a non-formal atmosphere, which ensures open discussions
and free exchange of thoughts. During the "BarCamp" there are no
specially invited speakers: participants read reports and organize
discussions. Compared with the traditional conference, here the
agenda is formed by the participants and gets a final shape only
after opening of the event.

The "BarCamp" is entirely a new format of organization of events:
it was first implemented in 2005 in the USA California state after
which it was widely spread in the whole world.

In the former Soviet space the first "BarCamp" was organized in Kiev in
October 2007. More than 300 people from Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan,
Latvia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland and other states took part in it.

"BarCamp Kiev" was followed by "BarCamp Baltic’s" in Riga in February
2008, then came "BarCamp Caucasus" in Tbilisi in June.