Great to see the Adelaide tech startup scene getting together for a BarCamp.
If you’re going to be around Adelaide on the weekend ofthe 21st, it’ll definitely be worth checking out.
Details Below
- WHEN: Saturday Feb 21st, 9:30am - 5pm
- WHERE: Xentech Web CBD Office, Rundle Mall
- COST: Only $15/ticket (includes food & lanyard!)
- SIZE: Strictly limited to 45 tickets, so act now!
- WHO: Beginners & advanced technology lovers
- HOW: Tickets MUST be bought via the BarCamp site
- WHY: Have fun, make friends, share & learn
- KUDOS: Monique Kleine, Geoffrey Kwitko + more
I spoke to serial entrepreneur Kwitko about the event and this is what he had to say:
It’s quite a buzz to be running the first BarCamp Adelaide (in a very long time) with Monnie. We are set to run an absolutely rocking event.
It was a very shakey start (as is normal when you get a gaggle of volunteers together to run something new) but it’s certainly been a fun ride and I’ve met some amazing people. It was great to have 10 or so highly enthusiastic to take on large organisational responsibilities at the first meeting (a great sign that what we are doing means something to the community). But in the end over the following months, as people’s abilities and commitments started to drop out, Monnie and I were are happy to run BarCamp Adelaide together in a small but fully capable team.
I’ve been running events and businesses since I was 16 (just sold my fourth recently)…. and Monnie knows the tech community inside out so we are a good team. We look forward to many more BarCamps with even more impact on the community.
Kleine also added some background information on the event
The idea for having BarCamp Adelaide came after I got frustrated that we keep missing out on the “cool” tech events. Sydney is naturally blessed with conferences supported by big companies where we tend to miss out. BarCamp also bridges the divide between keen contributors and those who work/live/breathe the internet, games, programming/networking etc.
There has been one in the past, though not widely advertised and not many people on board. It was also held very far out of the city - almost a 90 minute drive from the CBD - and in Adelaide that is a pretty big deal!
We are expecting 50 people at this BarCamp. It is our starter event; we have already started planning forward for the next one that we hope to have in July or August.
I believe after this one there should be an increased amount of interest as we are trying to appeal to a wide market of people instead of just leaving it covering one field, ie programming. We’d love to have everyone involved and learning, as well as reporting back to the wider tech community and their friends.
And what, according to Kleine, would make a succesful event?
A successful BarCamp for me would be one that people walk away from having learnt something they can share and talk about with others. I want to bridge the technology gap and have people of all skill levels attend something like this, as it gives keen people the opportunity to be involved without a degree.
With BarCamp being a proven format for building local tech communties and Kleine and Kwitko organising the event - I’d put money on the event being a success in the organisers’, and the community’s, eyes.
