BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. **Everyone should come prepared to stand up and talk about something - this is interactive** **THEME** - Technology, Startups, Media ... **Attendees** - techies, coders, bloggers, designers, engineers, startups. ** Event details ! BarCamp Kenya 2.0 -- is happening on 24th November 2007; info here or here **Was on ** - Saturday - 31 March 2007 from 1:00 - 6:00 pm **Was at ** - University of Nairobi , Civil Engineering Lecture Theater ! Contact/Information Mailing List - http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-nbi?hl=en (Add yourself!) ! Sponsors * Your friendly White African offered to ensure that everyone would have an excuse to get their throats wet. I\'ll buy the first round of drinks (Riyaz, where can we send donations to this worthy cause?). :) * made a recording * WiFi from Ashok and Wananchi * Wananchi Online * KENIC ! Schedule - (More to follow) * Afternoon Started at around 1.30pm with about 10 people in attendance. :) Typical Sat Afternoon. (but a total of about 40+ people attended) - First - the fastest car in the world The Bugatti Veyron - Josiah Mugambi - Links to video to follow. - AFRICADOTNET.net by Edgar Okioga - Equal Opportunity Manufacturing by Kamau Gachigi (Phd) of UON - Software Defined Radio by Nick a JKUAT student - bungeni.org by Ashok - Long Tail Economics of Abundance by MamaMikes, Felix Kiptum - Residential Networks with David Kiania - Skunkworks and the Halfway Proposition - Riyaz Bachani - by Ted Muganda - University LAN networks - - David Kariuki & Nick Muttai (Moi Uni - Eldoret) - Titus Njoroge & Melvin Obiri (JKUAT) - Genius Executive Center, - Harry Karanja - Startups in Kenya - Harry Karanja * Skunkworks - Action Points - Web 2.0 - and how to build local content - Web 2.0 - what is YouTube. Webcasting - Web 2.0 - Project Anywhere.Kenya\'s first world class email service and portal. Private beta - Web 2.0 - what is MySpace. Social Networks. Mobile social networks in Kenya ? mig33 ... - Web 2.0 - what is Skype. VoIP - Web 2.0 - What is Blogger (Mental you want to take this one ? including templates etc) - Web 2.0 - What is Wikipedia - Web 2.0 - What is technorati - Web 2.0 - What is Digg. Showcase swarm, stack, bigspy **Topics I would like to hear about** * Who is going to start the first Kenyan weekly podcast? * The Unpublic - Project Anywhere.Showcase of news and events that never make it to mainstream media. * Bloggers sharing news that the regular media won\'t print or talk about * What opportunities there are in Nairobi for tech guys * What opportunities there are in Nairobi for designers * The best and worst of the electronic media in Kenya ! Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc. Please use the tag **barcampkenya** for content related to this event ! Who\'s blogging? * Madsvibe-Mad Vibe * GregoireJapiot on omidyar.net * Startups in Kenya * [http://projectsunshine.blogspot.com/2007/04/women-in-ict-blogging-and-barcamp-kenya.html Women in ICT, Blogging and BarCamp Kenya] * 2007/04/05 -- ‘Round the Bar Campfire: [http://barcamp.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/the-promise-of-barcamp-in-africa/|The Promise of Barcamp in Africa] *lets get some more people here