9 things you missed at BarCamp STL
I attended my first BarCamp over the weekend, which was a ton of fun. It was a fairly small group, but I got to meet some brilliant and interesting people.
So, nine things you missed at BarCamp STL:
1. Arch Reactor, a hackerspace right here in St. Louis.
3. “Star Trek”, including good advice to watch the original series as a play or to listen to episodes as a radio program. I grew up without a TV — I’m not really a “Star Trek” fan (I know; please don’t throw things at me), but I absolutely get the radio thing.
4. Vim, which I now know is a free multi-platform text editor. But it seemed a bit more complicated than that, and I’m definitely a “Look! Shiny!” person.
5. Silkworms, which was fascinating. And then we were attacked by squirrels, including this attacker:
6. Radiolab, a syndicated science program
7. “Firefly”, a must see if you ask me. (And I assume you did.)
To be honest, it was only briefly mentioned. Still, I insist that you watch it again.
8. The marshmallow experiment.
Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.
(Thanks to Kevin, I knew all about this one.)
9. Big Bird’s ability to fly. He can’t; evidently birds that weigh more than 35 pounds can’t fly. (And have hands instead of wings can’t help.) Also, Big Bird sang a song about his inability to fly.
Plus many other deliciously geeky discussions. Thanks to everyone at BarCamp for letting me in the clubhouse.
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I had not heard of BarCamp before, but now I’m intrigued. I searched and found a barcamp.org site, but I’m still not entirely sure how it works. Do you have to be invited to go? Can you share more information?
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Sara: The idea behind BarCamp is that everyone has knowledge about something, and therefore everyone can teach someone else about that something. (Not that you necessarily have to.) One of the great things about barcamp: You never really know what you’re getting into. But the point of barcamp is that you make it whatever you want: Conversations and sessions can go where ever you want.
Along the same lines, it looks like HealthCamp St. Louis is planned for January. And I’m sure there will be more BarCamps — there’s already talk of another here in St. Louis in March!