BarcampCHS 2 success!

It looks like Barcamp Charleston was another resounding success. Lots of hard work was put in by the organizers and there were lots of happy people everywhere I went today. Learned lots of things, met lots of people and put more faces to Twitter names.

Thanks to Baked for providing all the delicious breakfast noms!

BarcampCHS robot

(This is not Baked breakfast noms. This is BarcampCHS robot)

There were something like 60 proposed sessions, all of which I think got scheduled.
All the sessions I went to were pretty good. Probably the most interesting one was the Google Q&A session where a couple folks from Google’s Berkley County data center answered a bunch of Google related questions.

The ham radio session I went to was really interesting too. Learned a lot about what it takes to get into ham radio.

BarcampCHS was yet another awesome learning experience. Charleston could use more events like this to give people more chances to get their geek on and meet other people to do that with.

Here comes BarcampCHS 2

There’s just two days left until Barcamp Charleston 2.

On the surface you’d think it was just a thing for techie geeks. In part, you’d be right. Because of its origin, many Barcamps tend to be inherently geared towards the tech community. However the Barcamp concept has spread to just about every area and item you can think of. Take last week’s Cupcake Camp Charleston for example.

Barcamp Charleston organizers have worked extremely hard over the past 6 weeks to pull together the second (hopefully annual) event. Like last year, it won’t be exclusively techie and will hopefully have a something that will appeal to everybody regardless of what field they choose to express their geekery in. Like all Barcamps though, that will be determined entirely by the people that go. With proposed sessions like Homebrew 101, Podcasting 101, Geocaching in the Lowcountry, Salsa dancing for noobs and Sci-fi costuming there should be something that everybody can get interested in.

Sound interesting? See you on Saturday then, but go get your ticket first!

BarcampCHS 2010 Poster

Got my hands on some of the new posters for this year’s BarcampCHS. The posters are pretty sweet.

Barcamp Charleston 2010 poster

And when you turn the lights out,

Glowing Barcamp Charleston 2010 poster

BarcampCHS tickets available now!

Tickets for this year’s BarCamp Charleston are now available through Eventbrite!

Tickets this year are $10 to help cover some of the costs associated with Barcamp. That gets you breakfast, lunch, a t-shirt and the awesomeness that is BarcampCHS. There’s also an individual sponsor option ($25) which includes the above plus parking and the knowledge that you’re helping to make the awesomeness that is BarcampCHS possible.

The new website is also up and running so go propose your sessions!

BarcampCHS 2011

BarCamp 2011 poster

This isn’t the final version, but it’s pretty close. Thanks to Seth Deitch for creating it for us!
BarcampCHS is still looking for sponsors and volunteers, so if you’re interested in helping out contact us.

Yes, TheDigitel is spelled wrong. I told you it wasn’t finished yet.