BarCamp Pittsburgh November 22, 2008

The first BarCamp Pittsburgh will be held next weekend on Saturday, 22 November at the Wilkins School Community Center in Swissvale. The event will be co-located with the Western PA Linux User Group’s November members meeting. However, you don’t have to be a kernel hacker in order to attend BarCamp. Everyone is invited: programmers, hackers, engineers, bloggers, artists, musicians, designers, writers, poets, creators and makers of all stripes and colors.

Pittsburgh has already held a successful PodCamp for three years running. Like PodCamp, BarCamp is a participant created event. The schedule and agenda is determined by the attendees at the opening session. Unlike PodCamp which has a specific focus on new media, BarCamp is completely open to any topics. Typically sessions have a creator/maker bent with everyone from designers to engineers showing off their creations and teaching others how to do the same. For more background on barcamp, read the wikipedia article or check out the barcamp wiki.

Official Website: http://barcamp.org/BarCampPittsburgh