BarCamp on Sustainability and Environment / London
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
ecoCampLondon is a Barcamp about the environment and sustainability which aims to get together passionate people to discuss, engage, interact and ultimately take action!
BarCamps without any specific topic (but “internet”) are kind of exploding now. Too many people attend and there is often that feeling that everything has already been said at other BarCamps before. Plus there is usually no reason to talk about sustainable ideas, since no one wants to hear about it. The exception proofs the rule in the new development of so called ‘Theme BarCamps’. They focus on certain topics like ‘only Wordpress’, ‘only Typo3′, ‘only social issues’ (SocialCamp in Berlin) and now ‘only sustainability and environment’. How great is that? As BarCamps are always sponsored by some companies, those events are usually free of charge and commited to get people involved, share ideas, inspire each other and create a new way of thinking together. You talk a lot and might get the idea of only talking instead of doing, but you really come up with new guidelines everyone tries to follow afterwards, and you usually make new friends and co-operations. Enough going into raptures over BarCamps now - here’s my advice for everyone who is in Britain’s capital on Saturday, 29 November 2008: The EcoCampLondon. It’s also an carbon-neutral event.
