BarCampMontreal2, the whole-day unconference is on in Montreal tomorrow with a whopping 25+ presentations and a great and big attendance of diverse people in Montreal.
Where: Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), 1195 Boul. St. Laurent
When: Saturday, April 28th, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.
It’s a free and open event where anybody can come and participate. Everybody is actually expected to participate in some way, either by presenting or by helping others present or by giving a hand with the organization.
Now, although the idea of BarCamp was borne out of the Tech world in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, the presentations need not be about Technology, and this time around at the SAT in Montreal, we are expecting a whole group of non-tech people and presentations. The cross-fertilization of ideas from all sides will be beneficial to all parties involved. People will gather and meet with others outside their usual bubble and this can only bring in new ways of thinking, new avenues for collaboration and new opportunities.
To illustrate the variety, we’ll be having these presentations among others including the Tech ones:
1. Simon Law – Taking photographs with cheap drugstore cameras
2. Moomlyn – Lucid Dreaming (I love this)
3. Marcella Lorenzi – E=mc2; superstring installation; music from cellular automata
4. Martine Pag̩ РPr̩sence f̩minine/where are the girls (in Tech). An age-old question.
New this time is the Slide Karaoke – 5 volunteers present slides they don’t know anything about. We cheer them up. It’s riotous.
Ever the gentleman, Hugh McGuire who’s also presenting, tagged some ladies so that they be present and thus equalize the attendance. I for one would love to see Ella present. I saw her at Laïka the other night and went to speak to her as I had seen her play the contrabass at a BlueGrass joint on a Sunday night – the Barfly. It turns out she’s a pretty techie geek too and has many diverse interests including open source (?) and linguistics. Marie-Jo should be there as she’s in the registrant list, and of course, I would like to see Deborah there too. Come on Egyptian Geek Goddess. It’s your community, you should be there.
The first BarCamp in Montreal was launched by Fred Ngo with the help of some friends back then in October while I was looking for an apartment (which means not only I couldn’t attend, but I hadn’t even had the time to search online for the Tech community here – I didn’t even know there was a BarCamp in Montreal).
This time, I will be there with the community and will present:
“Hacking Thought – Systems Thinking and the Myth of Exclusive OR”
with the intention of showing you how to hack your own thoughts and make you better at problem solving and generally at understanding the world. Yes, it’s about the expansion of your consciousness.
Come on over. You know you want this.
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