BarCamp Philly 2008
Tonight I’m going to Barcamp Philly and you should, too! I love social media, and the interaction it allows amongst complete strangers. Truth is, even your friends were strangers at one point 
And I’m always down to meet new peeps!
What is Barcamp?
From BarCamp Philly’s Website: BarCamp is defined by Wikipedia as follows:
“…an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.”
The name ‘BarCamp’ originates as a play on Foo Camp, an invitation only event held by open source publisher Tim O’Reilly. The first BarCamp was in 2005, in Palo Alto, CA. The open invite event was a huge success and thus spawned a series of BarCamps all over the globe from Boston to New Zealand and on November 8, 2008 in Philly!
Where is BarCamp Philly at?
BarCamp Philly will take place at The University of the Arts, which is my Alma Mater! Yep, its where I graduated from. While there, I studied Music Composition
Who have I met at Social Meetups?
Back in March 2008, I remember my first meetup at Podcamp NYC I met a guy named Drew Olanoff, Kevin Gamble of Tiki Bar TV, Mike Lewis of Swarrm.com, Mashable writer’s Alana Taylor and Adam Ostrow, Best Techie and many more cool peeps.
Truth is, I remember meeting all these people and not knowing who ANY of them were. Not one. It was at this time that I just started my Ustream Music Lesson Show, so I was new to the whole scene. Now I’m attending these as much as possible. Its addictive. Why does this stuff interest me so much? I’m convinced its the people, the interaction of geeks taking video, pictures, blogging, laughing, drinking, and learning.
I met all these cool peeps, and this weekend it better include YOU! So come into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and let’s hang out!
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