YEREVAN TO HOST BARCAMP 2010

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 26, 2010 – 20:21 AMT 15:21 GMT

Yerevan will host BarCamp 2010 conference on information technologies
due May 21-23, organizer of the event Alexey Chalabyan said.

"BarCamp is a possibility of informal meeting of IT and related
fields specialists – designers, journalists, bloggers, etc. It is
an opportunity to exchange ideas and experience," Chalabyan told a
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

Yerevan will host BarCamp conference for the second time. Last year,
it brought together 450 people from Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia,
Iran, USA and other countries. BarCamp is an international net of
conferences that are open to everyone and organized in the format of
reports, trainings, presentations and discussions. The entire material
is provided by participants. The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto,
California, in 2005. Since it, BarCamp conferences have taken place
in 350 cities worldwide.