Comments on Margaret Olson: BarCamp Boston UnReport (Updated)

Margaret-- Great to meet you at BarCamp. I was a p...

2006-06-08T12:23:00.000-07:00

Margaret-- Great to meet you at BarCamp. I was a podcaster capturing "Sounds of BarCamp" material, and we talked briefly about content networks. Your VC colleague mentioned that we were in the same space (though having looked into Plum, we have completely different use cases).

Anyhow, it was great talking with you, and I'd love to talk more about your thoughts on content and the like. If you still have my glaring orange card, please send an email. If not, chris at grasshopperfactory dot com. Please say hi, and maybe we can talk about a podcast interview?

Bar Camp was quite an accomplishment and you shoul...

2006-06-05T11:57:00.000-07:00

Bar Camp was quite an accomplishment and you should be very proud of what you and the other volunteers pulled off. Maybe organizers isn't the right word but I know it had to have been a ton of work!

The entire Bar Camp concept is quite new and that there is room for improvement is hardly surprising.

I don't think I have an anti-commercial attitude. ...

2006-06-05T10:16:00.000-07:00

I don't think I have an anti-commercial attitude. I love commerce. I just hate being lectured about things that have no value to me. I also think that the phrase "the Bar Camp organizers" is misleading: the role of the people who planned BarCamp was not to organize the event, but to provide tools for the people who attended to efficiently, dynamically self-organize. This approach trades off a lot of ability to do pre-selection and biography research in favor of flexibility and openness. If you'd prefer a less chaotic approach, perhaps this isn't the tradeoff you want. On the other hand, maybe we can indeed refine our execution for next time. Would you like to step in earlier next time to help with the aspects of planning you found inadequate this time?