This weekend Seattle is having our first BarCamp event at the Adobe Conference Center in Fremont. For those of you unfamiliar with BarCamp it is “an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants”. How it works is we have lined up the venue and the sponsors (free t-shirts & lunch) and the content of the conference comes with the attendees. First thing Saturday morning people who want to give a talk, or facilitate a discussion sign up on the big board in the room/time slot they choose. Throughout the day there will be all sorts of presentations on a wide range of topics. The event is free for everyone and runs Saturday from 10AM-5PM and Sunday from 10AM-1PM. Saturday night there is also a big party at The Red Door. Susan and I are planning on talking about Coworking on Saturday around 2PM and we’ve invited all the regional spaces to join us. It is going to be a great weekend.

Tonight we are having a volunteer meeting at Office Nomads at 7PM. There are plenty of opportunities to volunteer so please come if you would like to help out. For more information on the event visit http://www.barcampseattle.org.

Last night Tara Brown hosted a meeting here at Office Nomads to kick off planning for Seattle’s first Bar Camp. BarCampSeattle is going to be on June 14th and 15th at a location that will soon be determined. The first meeting was mostly to get the ball rolling and see how excited people are. We filled our main conference room and despite the high turn out we actually got a lot done too! Priority #1 is to find a venue and we have some great leads. Next we will focus on sponsorship and promotion. If you are interested in helping plan we are having our next meeting here on May 6th, 7PM. Contact Tara to let us know you are coming. You can also join the Facebook Group.