{"id":51,"date":"2007-12-17T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/2007\/12\/17\/the-first-ever-barcamp-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T05:44:00","slug":"the-first-ever-barcamp-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"The first ever BarCamp Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hong Kong’s first ever BarCamp, held at Yahoo! Hong Kong offices on December 16, 2007, attracted about 100 participants and was hailed as a success. BarCamp<\/a> is an informal, very loosely structured ‘user-generated’ conference event that began in Silicon Valley, spread around the world, and was recently imported to Hong Kong. The rules are simple if unconventional.<\/p>\n

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No previously organized panels or keynotes, and no invited guests – you’d think this would be a recipe for chaos, but quite the contrary (see links to feedback below). The first Hong Kong BarCamp was a team effort involving a dozen companies (including Outblaze), which you can view at the BarCamp Hong Kong wiki page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This unconference was certainly well received in the Hong Kongblogosphere. You can read up on the event at the Web Wednesday entry<\/a>, and see thoughts and reactions from organizers and attendees at Hong Kong Phooey<\/a>, 852Signal<\/a>, Digital Anthology<\/a> (also this primer<\/a>), RConversation<\/a>, d.otted rhythm<\/a>, and others. Victor of Hong Kong Phooey also runs a CNet blog<\/a> in which he goes over the participation rules in more detail. I particularly recommend the RConversation entry<\/a> for its write-up of the stimulating discussion on user rights and government interference – many interesting and thorny issues there. Presence among Chinese language blogs was also good, have a look at SideKick’s post<\/a> and Drinkazine<\/a> and Ben Lau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pictures available on Flickr<\/a>. Outblaze was proud to be a sponsor, and was particularly happy with the event T-shirts (sponsored by Dookaz<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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