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The History of BarCamp(CHS)

Submitted by Organizers on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 00:47

FooCamp and the Genesis of BarCamp

No talk into the history of any BarCamp cannot start without mentioning the Camp for the Friends Of O'Reilly (FooCamp).  While FooCamp still has many of the same unstructred participant-driven features of a BarCamp, it is restrictive due to the fact you are invited only if you a friend of O'Reilly.

It was not receiving such an invitation that led Tantek Çelik to the idea of creating an open version of such an event.  Some people claim that the name BarCamp was chosen due to the programming variables foo and bar, however, no such evidence supports this claim.  The original BarCamp was hosted in the offices of Socialtext and was organized in less than one week.  It was held from August 19-21, 2005 and had about 200 attendees.

Since then, Barcamps have covered the world.  The one in our very own Charleston started in 2009.

The first BarCampCHS

The idea to have a BarCamp within Charleston was originally concieved by Calvin Webster.  The first planning meeting was on July 22 2009, and the original planners in attendance (aside from Calvin) were Adrian Nida, Matthew Gregg, Eugene Ma, Ian May, Steve J. Berry, and Jared W. Smith.  Chrys Rynearson quickly came on board later to help out with the website and organization.

The first BarCampCHS was held October 24th, 2009 at the Lowcountry Innovation Center (much thanks to Alan St. Clair).  Ryan Johnson was instrumental in co-ordinating things between BarCampCHS and The City of North Charleston.  We had about 215 attendees from all walks of life. The sessions ranged from talks on XMPP to Bacon.  A detailed list is below:

Time Lowcountry Innovation Center Collecta Active Modules Rehava.com O'Reilly Technica Social Media Foo Bar
10 - 11 Community News Online iPhone Development Career Transitions and the Social Web Cookies! Sell what's in Your Head Energy Consumption Monitors Tweet Corps Wordpress Open Topics XBox360
11 - 12 Web Standards and Accessibility XMPP Mac 101 Amazon Cloud Computing Firebug Tips and Tricks Testing is for Weenies - Unit Testing in PHP and PHPUnit Building Strong Communities with Social Media Enery Efficiency Through Automation Saving Ourselves from Natural Deficit Disorder
12 - 2 Lunch and Networking and Fun
2 - 3 Ruby on Rails using git Human Powered and Electric Transportation Video w/ DLSR Tech Tools for Changemakers Canon Hacking Dev Kit Rock Band Challenge Empty Pirate Dojo Empty
3 - 4 Belly Dance 101 Agile Development w/ Scrum Empty Usability for Greater Good Siesta w/ Theresa ASP.NET MVC Bing API Storm Chasing w/ Social Media Magic the Gathering Erlang
4 - 5 Drupal Agile Development and Testing Intro to Geocaching Webcasts the don't suck UNIX Command Line 001 Resolute Determination Beyond Twitter and Facebook BoaF: Online Artistic Portfolios Empty
5 - 6 Designing for your Audience Acceptance Tests for Agile Bacon Camp Improv Skills in Workplace Lessons from Linux Kernel Development Web Tools for Artists Empty Empty Empty

 

BarCampCHS 2010

The idea for the second BarCampCHS was conceived over lunch on 2010-08-18.  By 2010-09-28, Chrys had the website up and running and tickets were being sold through EventBrite. Christopher and Nathan Zorn were quite wonderful at recruiting sponsors.  This year, it was decided to have BarCampCHS at College of Charleston (much thanks to Dr. Chris Starr and Mike Cole).  We also held a kick-off party, and because we're party loving peeps an after party (thanks to Janet Conover) too.

267 people attended the 2010 event, making it the largest BarCamp in Charleston to date.  Here are the sessions:

Time Collecta Yahoo Developer Network CofC Jack Russell Software Google DataSpring Spark! WestBrook

Physician's Auditorium
10 - 11 Internet Marketing for Business Zombie OMG! Understanding the Cybercrime Ecosystem AdsZoo Guy "Does Your Website Stink?" CSCLUG Meeting Social Commerce Make Yours: Uncycled Envelopes A Whirlwind World Tour of Film Homebrew 201: Making Better Beer
11 - 12 Software Engineering != Plumbing High Frequency Trading and the Tech Behind It Microcopy for Website Design Intro to Drupal Comics in the Digital Age "Spinal Taps" The new Health Care Beginner's Guide to GIT A Layperson's Guide to Reading Code Salsa Dancing for Noobs
12 - 1 Lunch and Networking and Fun
1 - 2 Master Vocabulary While Brushing Your Teeth with Memorizeasy PodCasting 101 Drupal Panels Cracking the Microsoft ® Windows Vista ® Account of a hawt female friend just because she asks...meanly. Cloud-Hosting Simplified How Twitter, Facebook & YouTube are a Catalyst for Energy Savings Making the Transition: Are Teachers Prepared for the Wave of Tech Savvy Students? Ruby 101 The Real-time Web and How To Use It
2 - 3 Select * From Internet Using The Yahoo! Query Language Wordpress Setup & Security Is Your SEO Blowing Smoke Community Coverage and Metadata History of Hacking Take A Break, RELAX! Radiation Risk: Cutting Through the FUD Building Web Presence with Joomla Developing on Sugar CRM
3 - 4 Open System Management Customizing Wordpress TwentyTen in a Hosted Install Drupal: Beyond the Basics Domain Names: Tips & Tricks jQuery BoF Lab Management with Team Foundation Server How to Contribute to an Open Source Project Professional Certifications Overview of Cloud Computing with AWS
4 - 5 Ham Radio Workstation Maintenance for Non-Profits Symbolic Imagery In Interface Design 3D Birds of a Feather Your Google Q&A Essential Software Development Tools & Processes Launching and Growing a Business in Charleston What's Up With NoSQL? Empty
5 - 6 Empty E-Mail Newsletters: Design & Code Developing Photos in a Digital Darkroom Robot Take a Break: Relax! Drupal: What Modules to Use? Mining the BarCampCHS Social Graph Microcopy for Website Design Homebrew 101: How to Make Beer