Announcing *Camp...

I soft-announced *Camp at the Dangerous Drumstick GeekDinner on my birthday and created a Facebook event over the weekend, and things are already progressing well, with 26 confirmed guests at the Facebook event and offers of connectivity, tutorial computers, sound equipment, AV equipment, and so forth.

So, what is *Camp?  It's a 36-hour-long self-organising event in the spirit of BarCamp.  Everyone is invited to attend, entrance is free, and everyone who attends is strongly encouraged to give an event on something about which they are passionate in the area of technology and the Internet.

It isn't just talking - the second day will offer many opportunities to do real work on projects.  It could be helping write some code for an open source project, doing a web site (with a CMS, full SEO, brand identity, and so forth) for a deserving organisation, or launching a new Web 2.0-buzzword-compliant company and web site.  We'll try have options for everyone to get some real, and fun, work done - whether you're a geek of the programming, designing, managing, marketing, documentation, or other variety.

And when you feel like taking a step out of the high-intensity action on either days, there'll be a games room where you can play or watch people play some fun multiplayer games on the Nintendo Wii (and potentially other consoles).

If you're interested, sign up on the event page (if you're using Facebook, you can sign up there in addition, but please sign up on the event page too) and join the announce mailing list if you want to be reminded about the event and other important announcements, offer an event, suggest a venue, offer some equipment, suggest some sponsors, or sign up on the planning mailing list.

(If you're talking about *Camp, please tag with "starcamp", since some aggregators or blog searches don't like "*" in their tags.  We'll start aggregating posts about the event shortly.)