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March 12, 2008
For you computer nerds, and apparently there are a few, comes a genuine Silicon Valley import.
March 12, 2008
For you computer nerds, and apparently there are a few, comes a genuine Silicon Valley import.
BarCampPhnomPenh is Cambodia’s first BarCamp to provide people with interest in technologies and Internet to come together for a two-day gathering to learn and share skills and knowledge.
The pace of changes in technology is amazing. Too many people may find not only that this is the Age of Information, but also have to live with the so called ‘information overloaded’. And too many people may tell you that they have been left behind. This event hopes to give an open space for everyone to learn, to catch up, and get the most from the communication technology.
As it hopes to introduce a culture of learning and sharing in an open space the BarCampPhnomPenh will be a place where its participants can learn useful technology and tools available, so that they can make use of them to empower and enhance their operating firms and organizations.
Wikipedia helps explain the name.
The name “BarCamp” is a playful allusion to the event’s origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing luminary Tim O’Reilly.
The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week, from concept to event, with 200 attendees.
Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 31 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia.
“Foobar” itself is pinched from the U.S. military acronym FUBAR, as in Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition.
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