Goalie’s view
Posted by grahamjordan on November 27, 2008
no need for any yellow or red cards
Ok, I have to admit to being a bit nervous about this first Sunderland Community Barcamp.
We’d not spent months organising it, and we knew we were venturing into the unknown, ‘boldly going’ as one of the speakers at IT in the Community suggested.
The format was BarCamp-ish, and I think we held true to the BarCamp spirit.
So how did it turn out?
Well, if you weren’t there you missed out on:
- a great curry
- loads of opportunity to network
- great chat about community websites, sustaining an aging population, web 2.0 and all that stuff and clever telephones that can help keep you safe
and I almost forgot
- everyone that came along got a t-shirt (haven’t spotted any on ebay yet but these will be collectors items).
happy campers
Around 40 people attended from all sorts of backgrounds – some local, some had travelled a long way, some community reps, techies, digital mentors, digital challenge team and some involved in skills training.
I didn’t see anyone with a long face, but perhaps I missed something….We would like your comments though so please feel free to tell us what you thought. It’ll help us in organising the next Sunderland Community Barcamp.
Thanks to those who came along, and those who couldn’t make it but sent their wishes and helped promote the event. And special thanks to everyone that ‘made it so’.
Cheers!
Graham
Community IT 'barcamp' in Sunderland 
Steve Gowland said
I really enjoyed the evening – while we always expected that people would go away with a renewed focus on specific issues related to the use of technology in the community I hadn’t quite expected the sort of motivational boost that we all came away with (or was that the result of the curry).
I have loads of ideas for future Barcamps and can’t wait to get started on the next one.
Cheers for a job well done.
Steve
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