Vitaly Vlasov

What is a barCamp, by the example of

Launching barCamp in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2009.

History

• 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 by Tim O'Reilly, from concept to event, with 200 attendees. Tim O'Reilly

• The first BarCamps focuses on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

What is a barCamp

• BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.

• All participants are organizers.• Web 2.0 in reality!

BarCamps have been held in over 350 cities around the world

BlogCamp 2007

• The very first barcamp in Easten Europe, focusing on post-USSR countries.

• 300 attendees.

• 9 countries.

• 60 presentations.

• 800 posts in blogs.

• 80 mentions in the Press.

• Virus ....

barCamps in CIS

Москва

BlogCamp 2008

• Blogcamp CEE 2008 is a three-day conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 17-19th, which is going to gather 500 new media specialists, bloggers, start-upers and investors from Central and Eastern Europe. Those interested in CEE region are also welcome.

• Format: all about new media: blogs, social media, podcasting, citizen journalism, etc.

• Ragion: Central and Eastern Europe

A bit about schedule...

• There is no the planned schedule of appearances in advance. All participants have been writing down their presentations on the big empty board from the morning.

• 1 presentation — 1 cell — 30 minutes.

• 6 parallel sections.

Day 1. This is participant-generated schedule.

Day 2. This is participant-generated schedule.

BlogCamp Events

• Best Ukrainian Blog Awards (BUBA).

• Investor Day and Start-up contest.

Investor Day

• 126 projects from 9 countries: Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Poland, Russia, Romania and Ukraine. 10 projects reached the final and have been competing in two nominations:

• Seed Stage

• Early Growth Stage

Investor Day

• Experts: from DFJ, one of the greatest funds in the World; Mangrove – the most succesful european fund; ABRT from Russia, also funds from USA, Poland, Poland, Baltic countries, UK, Luxemburg, Holland, France, Norway.

• 32 investors.

• 5 startups started negotiations about funding before the final.

• 2 startups got Term Sheet.

• P-Navigator has been invested.

Sponsors?..

• Partners of Blogcamp CEE 2008 were: Microsoft (Freedrinks ), Opera, ASUS, Profeo, etc.

• Also Yandex, Gemius, Google, Begun, Meta UA, Rambler, Profeo, Kaspersky Lab, etc.

• Web (and the wonderful logo) – World Web Studio

Summary

• 821 attendees.

• 15 countries.

• 100 presentations.

Start-up contest

• DomVsem

DomVsem is a real estate portal and search engine that will deliver flexible search, accurate results, property visualization, advanced mapping, etc.

• Hippocrat

1) unified and easily accessible storage of their medical records,

2) background check of a doctor's reputation, and

3) getting a second opinion to support diagnosis of their current doctor.

Start-up contest

• Relenta

Relenta replaces five types of software by combining the functionality of shared email, contact manager, online calendar, task manager, and email newsletter marketing software into one elegant CRM-like application.

• TalkFest

is designated to unite people with similar interests and give them an opportunity to create information, share it with others and earn money on this.

• Youstyler

localized social network of fashion-obsessed people. It relies on users' interest in streetwear

Start-up contest

• ClienteQ

is a collaborative CRM solution that is open to clients. It is a shared collaboration space where your team and your client's team can plan meetings, track project status, etc.

• DeepMemo

is the information processor, which helps any reader of Web to easily work with information - to cut information (quotes, pieces of text and/or pictures), save, organize and share these quotes online, one-click. 

• TuneStory

is a service making iPod and iPhone devices more social. User can generate musical recommendations on-the-go right from her iPod

Start-up contest

• P-Navigator

is a tool for professional information search and retrieval. It runs on top of existing search engines, analyzing, enhancing and restructuring their results and providing end-users with semantics-centered GUI

• Alltunedin

to provide easy-to-use on-demand solution to build and manage niche social networks for businesses and organizations. They have already tested alpha product at the Russian market (http://vsevteme.ru/) and collected positive customer references in this segment.

Winners

• Hippocrat (Seed Stage)

• ClienteQ (Early Growth Stage).

• Winners get invitations at Silicon Valley Open Doors 2009.

http://blogcampcee.com/

BarCamp will be in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 2009!

Join to organize or attend!

• Russia is not only oil, gaz and the Kremlin!

• Saint-Petersburg is not only culture capital of Russia and the biggest science and educational centre...

• Russia is new features and new perspectives...

• Saint-Petersburg is the cradle of innovations in Russia!

• New media: blogs, social media and social networks, microblogging, podcasting, online broadcasting, etc.

• Disruptive and advanced technologies (virtual worlds, Enterprise 2.0, Semantic Web, mashups, etc).

• Innovations and investment in the Internet start-ups.

• You will be able to find like-minded persons.

• You will be able to talk with and listen to professionals.

• Find or build new teams and new projects on the event.

Underlying principles

http://openwebrussia.org

If you want to participate in organizing of the Event, let me know — Vitaly Vlasov, inxaoc@gmail.com

BarCamp Санкт-Петербург 2009

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