BarCamp Portugal - What’s next!

September 4th, 2006

BarCamp Portugal - Eu Fui

Well, I must confess it was the most refreshing event in Portugal for the last couple of years, and simply for that, thank you Fred and all the WeBreakStuff team for organizing everything! It was an impressive networking event, we talk about so many different things that would be impossible to write about them all here, so I just leave here a short list about the main projects and ideas we talked about during this barcamp:

It’s impressive what happens when people just sit down, take some time off, talk, share ideas, ask for advices, freely advice and criticize other projects/ideas! Regardless of what most of the portuguese tend to think, ideas just work like that, they blossom and tend to give way to a bunch more ideas, which I think that was the best achievement of this BarCamp.

I’ve met quite a bunch of new people, interesting people with interesting ideas! The main idea was summarized by Fred during his presentation: “we shouldn’t have fear of failing“. To fail is human, and failling is the best learning process we have. By failling we’re not just learning what lead us to failure we’re also learning a whole on how to procede on a next opportunity.

Having this in mind, it’s more than time that we here in Portugal drop the (easy) critic position and just take a part on this web 2.0 idea. Which as many people tend to think has nothing to do with the rounded corners or the gradients as we all laugh about! The “new” web is about the birth of new projects, new ideas, remix of “old” ideas and procedures, as Thomas put it during Reboot, we’re talking about a “New Renaissanse” here… For all the BarCamp participants, one thing is for sure, not only we’re going to repeat it, you’re sure going to hear a whole lot more from all of us there! ;)

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  • 1. Sérgio Santos  |  September 4th, 2006 at 12:57 pm

    Maybe you have forgotten revista PROGRAMAR (www.revista-programa.info)…

    But I have to agree with you, it was an awesome event!

  • 2. Pedro  |  September 4th, 2006 at 1:47 pm

    True, I just added it to the list of things we talked about at BarCamp. ;)

    Thanks for the reminder!

  • 3. Anonymous Coward  |  September 4th, 2006 at 1:53 pm

    I could say a lot of stuff about CC but I’ll just refrain to comment on a few of issues:

    1) there is a huge (and I mean HUGE) ammount of lobbying being done by the usual suspects;

    2) CC is a very complex project and having read a lot of documentation about it my understanding is that people in charge of the project have absolutely no clue about what they’re doing. It’s like they’re opening Pandora’s box;

    3) no one ever considers the fact that Microsoft’s Operating Systems are unsecure, unreliable and targetted by virus on a daily basis.

    My prediction is that CC will be a huge flop (no CC for 2007) and will take about 5 years for it to be massively deployed if it is even deployed at all.

  • 4. Mind Booster Noori  |  September 4th, 2006 at 3:42 pm

    Yep, I think you summarized quite well what happened there, and why BarCamp was a success.

    BTW, the link for the Music Industry Scenario presentation is wrong… this is the link.

  • 5. Hugo  |  September 4th, 2006 at 4:02 pm

    It really looks interesting.
    I really hope you repeat it, and specially that I could be present.

  • 6. Tiago Pinto  |  September 4th, 2006 at 5:22 pm

    For all the BarCamp participants, one thing is for sure, not only we’re going to repeat it, you’re sure going to hear a whole lot more from all of us there! ;)

    I’m glad for hear that from you :) I really hope to see these people together again. And soon.

  • 7. re:inventar » Blog &hellip  |  September 4th, 2006 at 9:49 pm

    [...] [update 1]: Pedro Custódio made a nice overview of what happened at Barcamp on his blog - Centopeia - and Planet Barcamp pt  has much more info from everyone who attended and has a blog. Worth checking out, oh, almost forgot, pictures are up. thanks guys! [...]

  • 8. Stream:: » Curling &hellip  |  September 5th, 2006 at 1:43 am

    [...] Fellow P*’s Pedro Custódio and Adriano Afonso have managed much better than I could ever do to convey into words the spirit of openness and sharing that pervaded the event. Like them, I’d also like to thank the people at weBreakStuff for sparking the interest in future open collaboration between all that attended. [...]

  • 9. Perl Best Practices by Da&hellip  |  September 12th, 2006 at 12:52 am

    [...] The busy month continues. A few weeks ago I was able to participate in a very interesting BarCamp Portugal (see more here and here) where I spent a weekend sharing and learning among a group of very talented people wanting to do and show their stuff. I hope we can repeat it soon. [...]

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