The barcamp has officially been around since August 2005 when a group of friends decided to hold a participant-powered conference in Palo Alto, California. The idea was to have an ‘unconference’ that anyone could host and where everyone could present on topics they were passionate about. Since then, barcamps have been held in over 400+ locations around the world including cities and communities in Africa. They have steadily grown discussions, innovations and ideas that might not have come to light before. While originally a very technical event in focus, they have evolved to cover a vast scope of topics from programming code to the enjoyment of cupcakes.
Africamp works to provide a central place for information and articles about these African BarCamps and unconferences. It works to promote a continuous stream of participant-driven content before, during, and after every event. A custom URL is created for each of these events and people are encouraged to use this URL for their official event blog. Africamp is free and open for anyone to contribute to from both inside and outside of Africa.
If you want to organize an African BarCamp, or you participated in one and would like to write about it, Africamp makes it very easy to do this. It just takes a second to sign up here, choosing to join the Africamp blog in the lower left. Drop us an email at community@maneno.org telling us the details of your barcamp (if it doesn't already exist on Africamp) so we can create the URL and add it to the Calendar. The folks are Maneno are here to help with any questions or suggestions you might have.
Happy camping!
Africamp is a hosted website on Maneno, a blogging and language platform built specifically for the African author and aimed at promoting citizen voices in the continent. Read more about Maneno, its abilities, its languages, and start your own blog there today!
