B. Mann Consulting

Here we are at noon on the eve of BarCamp Vancouver 2007. Duane Storey and I are hacking some phone VoIP stuff, I'll be doing geo logging (surprise!) and....and I don't know what else will happen.

It was great to read through Roland's retrospective of BarCamp's we've been involved in. I think he missed BarCamp SF at the Microsoft offices...I caught part of that after a late flight in.

BarCamp Amsterdam has to be one of my favourites. Chris Pirillo came in with a big donation that helped (European) beer-fueled hacking, the Mediamatic people and offices were fantastic, and lots of my European friends were there that I don't get to see very often. Oh, right, and I got to cook for 50+ people over an open flame indoors :P

I love unconferences. I wasn't involved in organizing this year's BarCamp Vancouver, so thanks to the many organizers and helpers. Here's what Jordan Behan has to say:

After last year’s event, I was so amazed at the things I learned and the people I met that I wanted to help out anywhere I could this year. So I joined (invited myself onto) the organizing committee, and thus I feel it is my duty to share a bit of Barcamp How-to.

That's exactly the spirit we want to see. See you tonight...

Kaliya announces that she is helping to unconference an Identity Open Space in Vancouver in July (aka IOSVan):

I am excited there will be open space identity event in the northwest that will provide an opportunity for Identity Gang participants in the region along with the Web 2.0 development community and the social good techies there to come together with Liberty Alliance participants and broaden the dialogue around the technical and social issues surrounding user-centric identitiy. This is NOT the next IIW that will be in November.

The Identity Open Space is being jointly produced by the Internet Identity Workshop and Liberty Alliance July 20-21 in Vancouver Canada.

I'm:

• excited that this is taking place in Vancouver -- thanks to the Liberty Alliance and local Sun representative Lauren Wood
• happy that Kaliya is being unconference woman and will undoubtly do a good job
• signed up already
• might not be able to go because I've had an unexpected trip to Germany come up...doh! I'll update this as I figure out my travel

So, if you want to get plugged into the Identity community and learn about the tangled web of protocols, specifications, and standards, go register. See the wiki for more information.

[cross posted to my Bryght blog]