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BARCAMP YEREVAN 2011 IS COMING
hetq
15:51, June 2, 2011
About 500 IT specialists, engineers, developers, bloggers, online
journalists and social media activists will gather on June 4-5 to
participate at «BarCamp Yerevan 2011» unofficial conference.
At the Paramaz Avedisian building of the American University
of Armenia, the participants will discuss the development of
technologies and social media in the region and world. BarCamp is
a brand new event, originating in the Silicon Valley of USA in 2005
that has become widespread throughout the world. BarCamp is usually a
~Snon-conference~T in the sphere of information technology or ~SIT,~T
new media and Internet.
A ~Snon-conference~T is the unofficial, informal part of the conference
supporting open discussions and a free exchange of ideas and opinions.
The philosophy of BarCamp is the following: all presentations are
given by participants themselves, with no formally invited guest
speakers and without the formality of traditional conference.
Most revealing, the schedule of events is ~Sproduced~T by the
participants of the conference and is formed only after the conference
opens, as participants add the presentations they want to hold on a
white board. Sponsors and supporters of the «BarCamp Yerevan 2011» are
Beeline, Internews in the framework of the «Alternative Resources in
Media» program supported by USAID, Opera Software, Deem Communications
and PanARMENIAN.Net.
hetq
15:51, June 2, 2011
About 500 IT specialists, engineers, developers, bloggers, online
journalists and social media activists will gather on June 4-5 to
participate at «BarCamp Yerevan 2011» unofficial conference.
At the Paramaz Avedisian building of the American University
of Armenia, the participants will discuss the development of
technologies and social media in the region and world. BarCamp is
a brand new event, originating in the Silicon Valley of USA in 2005
that has become widespread throughout the world. BarCamp is usually a
~Snon-conference~T in the sphere of information technology or ~SIT,~T
new media and Internet.
A ~Snon-conference~T is the unofficial, informal part of the conference
supporting open discussions and a free exchange of ideas and opinions.
The philosophy of BarCamp is the following: all presentations are
given by participants themselves, with no formally invited guest
speakers and without the formality of traditional conference.
Most revealing, the schedule of events is ~Sproduced~T by the
participants of the conference and is formed only after the conference
opens, as participants add the presentations they want to hold on a
white board. Sponsors and supporters of the «BarCamp Yerevan 2011» are
Beeline, Internews in the framework of the «Alternative Resources in
Media» program supported by USAID, Opera Software, Deem Communications
and PanARMENIAN.Net.