BarCamp is coming to South Africa!

I held off blogging this in full a while ago, but now there's a date and new logo, so: BarCamp is coming to South Africa!

By Boxes and Arrows' Anders Ramsay, who describes it best in a nutshell:

Think of BarCamp as the open-source equivalent to a traditional conference, in which top-down planning is replaced with bottom-up self-organizational models. Instead of having committees planning the event, selecting presentations, and then charging attendance fees, the only price for attending a BarCamp is participation. Attendees have to either give a presentation or help out with one. That simple rule lends momentum to an overall sense of ownership on the part of each who attend, which in turn, fuels a desire to participate far beyond doing presentations.

More via Wikipedia, Wired and The Rules of BarCamp.

Conrad is in the early stages of organizing BarCamp Cape Town and the date is set for 15 - 16 June 2006, the venue still to be confirmed. If you'd like to help or get involved in any way, check out the public wiki for more details. If you're interested then add yourself to the list, and help spread the word.

This is promising to be huge!

UPDATE: I just noticed that Mark has blogged the logo: Barcamp Cape Town: Unique in Design. Hopefully the concept is clear, but if you're not a Capetonian then I will say that the answer lies between two oceans. ;)