Just got word from one of the “unorganisers”, Alex North, that the next BarCamp Sydney has been announced.

Details are as follows

Date: 15 November 2008
Venue: UNSW Roundhouse
Time: 9am - 5pm (8:30 registrations)

You can register yourself on the wiki here:

For those who have never been, Alex explains what BarCamp is about

For those who aren’t familiar, a BarCamp is an unconference — an open, participatory workshop-event, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols.

An unconference is an ad-hoc conference, unorganised, unrestricted, unpredictable. The schedule consists of a large piece of paper on which you write in your name if you want to host a session. Campers will turn up to whatever sounds interesting. Sessions might be presentations, discussions, debates, games, … whatever you want. You’re strongly encouraged to present (it’s fun!).

I’ve been to the past 2 events and both have been incredibly valuable. Everyone is friendly - you can come by yourself and easily meet people to hang out with. The day is relaxed so it doesn’t matter if you want to pop in for just one session or for the whole day. You can even come and go to no sessions and still get a lot of value out of the peripheral activities

Keep an eye on the official blog for more details as the day gets closer