I was checking the list of BarCamps for a BarCamp we are organizing (news in the following days!) and I was very surprised to discover there will be a BarCamp in Lhasa, a BarCamp in Mauritius Islands ( June 20th and 21th 2008), a BarCamp in Nairobi, Kenya (June 21st, 2008) , a BarCamp in Kampala, Uganda (August 29th, 2008), a BarCamp in Kyrgyzstan (August 1-3). Wow!

(From Wikipedia)
“”BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
The name “BarCamp” is a playful allusion to the event’s origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing luminary Tim O’Reilly.
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, from concept to event, with 200 attendees. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 31 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia. To mark the one-year anniversary of BarCamp, BarCampEarth was held in multiple locations world wide on August 25-27, 2006.”

Wow! Many steps have been walked since when 4 crazy guys in California decided to lower the bar …