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The History of BarCamp(CHS)

Submitted by Organizers on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 00:47

FooCamp and the Genesis of BarCamp

No talk on the history of any BarCamp can start without mentioning the Camp for the Friends Of O'Reilly (FooCamp).  While FooCamp still has many of the same unstructred participant-driven features of a BarCamp, it was restrictive due to the fact you were invited only if you were a friend of O'Reilly.

It was because of not receiving such an invitation that led Tantek Çelik to the idea of creating an open version of such an event.  Some people claim that the name BarCamp was chosen due to the programming variables foo and bar, however, no such evidence supports this claim.  The original BarCamp was hosted in the offices of Socialtext and was organized in less than one week.  It was held from August 19-21, 2005 and had about 200 attendees.

Since then, Barcamps have covered the world.  The one in our very own Charleston started in 2009.

The first BarCampCHS

The idea to have a BarCamp within Charleston was originally concieved by Calvin Webster.  The first planning meeting was on July 22 2009, and the original planners in attendance (aside from Calvin) were Adrian Nida, Matthew Gregg, Eugene Mah, Ian May, Steve J. Berry, Lisa Ann Berry , and Jared W. Smith.  Chrys Rynearson quickly came on board later to help out with the website and organization.

The first BarCampCHS was held October 24th, 2009 at the Lowcountry Innovation Center (much thanks to Alan St. Clair).  Ryan Johnson was instrumental in co-ordinating things between BarCampCHS and The City of North Charleston.  We had about 215 attendees from all walks of life. The sessions ranged from talks on XMPP to Bacon.  A detailed list is below:

Time Lowcountry Innovation Center Collecta Active Modules Rehava.com O'Reilly Technica Social Media Foo Bar
10 - 11 Community News Online iPhone Development Career Transitions and the Social Web Cookies! Sell what's in Your Head Energy Consumption Monitors Tweet Corps Wordpress Open Topics XBox360
11 - 12 Web Standards and Accessibility XMPP Mac 101 Amazon Cloud Computing Firebug Tips and Tricks Testing is for Weenies - Unit Testing in PHP and PHPUnit Building Strong Communities with Social Media Enery Efficiency Through Automation Saving Ourselves from Natural Deficit Disorder
12 - 2 Lunch and Networking and Fun
2 - 3 Ruby on Rails using git Human Powered and Electric Transportation Video w/ DLSR Tech Tools for Changemakers Canon Hacking Dev Kit Rock Band Challenge Empty Pirate Dojo Empty
3 - 4 Belly Dance 101 Agile Development w/ Scrum Empty Usability for Greater Good Siesta w/ Theresa ASP.NET MVC Bing API Storm Chasing w/ Social Media Magic the Gathering Erlang
4 - 5 Drupal Agile Development and Testing Intro to Geocaching Webcasts the don't suck UNIX Command Line 001 Resolute Determination Beyond Twitter and Facebook BoaF: Online Artistic Portfolios Empty
5 - 6 Designing for your Audience Acceptance Tests for Agile Bacon Camp Improv Skills in Workplace Lessons from Linux Kernel Development Web Tools for Artists Empty Empty Empty

 

BarCampCHS 2010

The idea for the second BarCampCHS was conceived over lunch on 2010-08-18.  By 2010-09-28, Chrys had the website up and running and tickets were being sold through EventBrite. Christopher and Nathan Zorn were quite wonderful at recruiting sponsors.  This year, it was decided to have BarCampCHS at College of Charleston (much thanks to Dr. Chris Starr and Mike Cole).  We also held a kick-off party, and because we're party loving peeps an after party (thanks to Janet Conover) too.

267 people attended the 2010 event, making it the largest BarCamp in Charleston to date.  Here are the sessions:

Time Collecta Yahoo Developer Network CofC Jack Russell Software Google DataSpring Spark! WestBrook

Physician's Auditorium
10 - 11 Internet Marketing for Business Zombie OMG! Understanding the Cybercrime Ecosystem AdsZoo Guy "Does Your Website Stink?" CSCLUG Meeting Social Commerce Make Yours: Uncycled Envelopes A Whirlwind World Tour of Film Homebrew 201: Making Better Beer
11 - 12 Software Engineering != Plumbing High Frequency Trading and the Tech Behind It Microcopy for Website Design Intro to Drupal Comics in the Digital Age "Spinal Taps" The new Health Care Beginner's Guide to GIT A Layperson's Guide to Reading Code Salsa Dancing for Noobs
12 - 1 Lunch and Networking and Fun
1 - 2 Master Vocabulary While Brushing Your Teeth with Memorizeasy PodCasting 101 Drupal Panels Cracking the Microsoft ® Windows Vista ® Account of a hawt female friend just because she asks...meanly. Cloud-Hosting Simplified How Twitter, Facebook & YouTube are a Catalyst for Energy Savings Making the Transition: Are Teachers Prepared for the Wave of Tech Savvy Students? Ruby 101 The Real-time Web and How To Use It
2 - 3 Select * From Internet Using The Yahoo! Query Language Wordpress Setup & Security Is Your SEO Blowing Smoke Community Coverage and Metadata History of Hacking Take A Break, RELAX! Radiation Risk: Cutting Through the FUD Building Web Presence with Joomla Developing on Sugar CRM
3 - 4 Open System Management Customizing Wordpress TwentyTen in a Hosted Install Drupal: Beyond the Basics Domain Names: Tips & Tricks jQuery BoF Lab Management with Team Foundation Server How to Contribute to an Open Source Project Professional Certifications Overview of Cloud Computing with AWS
4 - 5 Ham Radio Workstation Maintenance for Non-Profits Symbolic Imagery In Interface Design 3D Birds of a Feather Your Google Q&A Essential Software Development Tools & Processes Launching and Growing a Business in Charleston What's Up With NoSQL? Empty
5 - 6 Empty E-Mail Newsletters: Design & Code Developing Photos in a Digital Darkroom Robot Take a Break: Relax! Drupal: What Modules to Use? Mining the BarCampCHS Social Graph Microcopy for Website Design Homebrew 101: How to Make Beer

 

BarCampCHS 2011

Planning for BarCampCHS 2011 started in June, with Adrian Nida leading the effort.  Again it was decided to hold it at College of Charleston.  We were able to offer Independent and Generous donors USB drives and IP WiFi cameras.  There were 187 registered attendees, although we suspect a few more showed up unannounced.  We have to link to the sessions due to the fact we had so many of them!

BarcampCHS 4 - 2012

The 4th BarcampCHS happened November 10, 2012 at the College of Charleston. Around 277 registered and walk-up attendees came to enjoy a diverse selection of sessions ranging from archaeology, roller derby, amateur radio to weather along with the usual technology related topics. The sessions are recorded in the schedule below.

Location BenefitFocus Boomtown jack russell software

Life Cycle Engineering

 PeopleMatter Google OBIS bibliolabs Kainaw, Inc. Charleston Digital Corridor SPARC
BarcampCHS RSS 102 RSS 106 RSS 105 RSS 104 RSS 103 RSS 235 RSS 248 RSS 249 RSS 250 RSS 251 RSS 252
08:00 - 09:00 Registration           
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and Session Pitches           
11:00 - 12:00 PHP is Bad for You Game App Design: Methods in the Madness Photoshop for Photographers Linux Server Basics ART and Sponsor Tables An Intro to Blender Micro Non-Profits BOF Bike Polo Overview of Cloud Computing with AWS Minecraft: Redstone Circuits (Computers with Fire) Intro to Arduino
12:00 - 12:15 Group Photo
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Your Startup Right How to Make Ravioli Angular JS Best Date Nights in Charleston ART and Sponsor Tables Your Google Q&A What do you do when AGILE isn't fast enough? Intro to SketchUP Picking out a New Television Improve your Public Speaking Skills Do you want to be a Linked In Rockstar?
15:00 - 16:00 Use Scrivener to write your next best seller Dual Pol Radar? WTF? #chswx Making Yourself Smarter Agile Transformation at Microsoft for Visual Studio Product Team and Team Foundation Service Off the Track -  Modern Roller Derby from A to Z CT Scanners: How They Work Charlestonians for I-526 Charleston SC Linux User Group Charleston Tech Community Discussion Mail Merge with Google Docs and GMail
16:00 - 17:00 Initiating Relationships, Decisions, Strategies & Skills User Interface Mobile Awesomesauce Do you get money back on every purchase? We Named the Dog Indiana... Mobile Marketing Best Date Nights (replaces Patents) History of Computers Museum Model Railroading for the 21st Century Minecraft Newbs and Pros
17:00 - 18:00 Rocks Fall: A beginners guide to DMing Living the Gamified Life Ridiculously Photogenic Guy Faster Web Development with Sublime Text 2 Cute to Sassy: Overview of  Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets Intro: DotNetNuke Free stuff and money: The Internet is not just for Porn anymore How to become a Ham Radio Operator Programming Basics: JS KnitCamp
18:00 - 19:00 Games you  might not have tried (Linux)
19:00 - whenever After Party at Mynt Charleston