See also: BarCampEarth
Information in Lithuanian at http://www.ms.lt/stovykla/ but of course we're excited to have visitors from other countries! Please write below and/or to AndriusKulikauskas at ms@ms.lt
August 25-27, Friday, Saturday, Sunday - The main day is Saturday starting at 10:00 am but we're welcoming to come earlier on Friday and stay later on Sunday.
Minciu Sodas headquarters at Folk Creativity Club "Atzalynas", Grudu g 6, Aukstutinis Pavilnys, Vilnius, Lithuania
We're also interested in video connections with people around the world, especially other BarCamps!
Thank you to TaraHunt for such a warm mention!
http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/07/david-crow-on-democamp.html
BarCampEarth/LT: Sumanymų stovykla rugpjūčio 26d.
http://skaitykla.hardcore.lt/?p=114
BarCampLithuania and audio video bridges
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minciu_sodas_en/message/6363
Minciu sodas rengia Sumanymu stovykla
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Minciu_sodas_LT/message/2934
Sign your name here...
AndriusKulikauskas, ms@ms.lt, +370 (5) 264 5950, +370 (699) 30003, skype: minciusodas
We have about 20 people expected including Markus Petz from the UK who is hitchhiking for the United Nations Millenium Goals http://www.eurizons.net
Išlydėjau Džordžą, paskutinį mūsų Sumanymų stovyklos dalyvį. Iš viso mūsų buvo 28, įskaitant svečius tranzuotojus Markus Petz iš Anglijos ir Ania Dymarczyk iš Lenkijos kurie užsuko vakar, susipažino su Atžalynu ir papasakojo apie jų veiklą http://www.eurizons.net supažindinti su Jungtinių tautų siekiais įveikti baisiausią skurdą. Tikiu dar daug parašyti, o sekančius renginius Zenonas Anušauskas rengs Eičiūnuose spalio mėnesį puoselėti talkos efektą ir Alfredas Gabrielavičius ir Irena Buinickaitė rengs Riešėje gruodžio mėnesį.
Tuomsyk pridedu savo pokalbį anglų kalba su Chris Messina. Ačiū visiems, kas dalyvavo laiškais ar Atžalyne. Labanaktis!
Andrius Kulikauskas, Minčių sodas, http://www.ms.lt, ms@ms.lt
Andrius: Hi Chris and all! We just concluded BarCampLithuania. I'm very glad how it went. We had 28 people in all.
Harris: great work Andrius: !
Chris: nice!
... congrats!
Andrius: Our only hitch was trying and failing to do video bridging. I realized that we wouldn't be able to do it using Linux so yesterday I bought Windows XP so that we could use it with Skype video. But then it couldn't recognize our computer's network card. So we had to give up on that part.
Chris: :(
... yeah
... the video isn't happening too much
... ah vell
... maybe tomorrow
Andrius: Friday was our preparation day. In the morning we had two international guests swing by, Markus Petz from the UK and Ania Dymarczyk from Poland. They made a detour from their hitchhiking trip http://www.eurizons.net to promote the United Nations Millenium Development goals to address world poverty.
... Then in the evening we had two guests Zenonas Anusauskas and Onute Labukiene come from the villages of Eiciunas and my friend Raimundas Vaitkevicius from Kaunas and we worked out our ideas for how it would go.
... Today we had people come from the cities of Kaunas and Panevezys as well as different parts of Vilnius.
Chris: wow!
... awesome
Andrius: Thanks, Chris!
Chris: please document all this on the barcamp wiki
Andrius: I was quite hands on as a facilitator - I ran it in "sessions", five in all, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. We would start out each session all together introducing whoever was new and making sure that each person had a project that they had brought to present and work on that we might help with.
Chris: cool
Andrius: Then I'd ask how the subgroups of the previous session had went, what they had achieved. And I'd point out how the progress related to other projects and what new steps they suggested.
... And then I'd suggest two or three subgroups that we could form, and consider input regarding that. Then the subgroups would split up and work for a good half hour.
... And then we'd get back together for the next session.
... The advantage of this was that I could have us focus on the most concrete projects and give them priority, the ones that had value in and of themselves.
Chris: sounds like a mashpit!
Andrius: And the more abstract projects or tool building projects could come in later once it was clear why they might be relevant.
... Oh, I see!
... So the first session started with Onute Labukiene's wish to start a club for alcoholics in her village. And with Mudis Salkauskas's work to organize a new approach to teaching chemistry. And with Simonas Jusas's wish to organize programmers to help each other. And Robertas Greicius's project to understand his own behavior.
... And when we came back together I would keep adding to a diagram showing the ideas that we're becoming relevant from each of our projects.
... For the second round I asked what supporting projects would be most immediately helpful so they chose Irena Buinickaite's work on "how to help people solve their own problems" and Raimundas Vaitkevicius's on "psychometrics and mapping key concepts". And Svetlana Scigol read some poetry in Russian.
Chris: wow
... awesome
... that's great
Andrius: So, for example, there was the idea that just as alcoholism is built on immediate gratification, so is lyric poetry based on immediate impact. Or that teaching chemistry requires a common language and so it's helpful to consider a universal language.
Chris: ....deep....
Andrius: In the third round then Alvydas Cepulis introduced his game for teaching communication which has people become conscious of the different positions they are taking (affirmation, negation, question, answer, remark, agreement) and how we can move from "a sum of all monologues" to "a sum of all dialogues" to a polylogue if we are willing to slow down our conversation. And Monika Jasinskaite spoke with artists and programmers about their interest in a virtual art gallery she is working on.
Chris: ;)
... i love it
... polylogue...
... nice
... andrius -- *please* add all this to the wiki
Andrius: And we could keep building on the original subjects of alcoholism, education, personal growth. In the fourth round Rimas Abromavicius presented his vision of a modern high school (KTU Gymnasium, the best in Kaunas) which is embracing Moodle for work to have discourse within the school, have teachers supplement their own education, and have distance tutoring for children from other schools. Others worked with Algirdas Zokaitis on how they might help our Folk Creativity Club "Atzalynas" where our lab is based and our BarCampLithuania took place. One teacher decided to start a drama club and some artists talked about how they might become active. (Yes, I'll add this to the wiki.)
Chris: so it sounds like it went well!
Andrius: In our fifth and final round we applied Alvydas Cepulis' communication game to have a discourse about education, including a comparison of the elite high school as the model of the current system, and an approach based on self-education on demand as elaborated by Alfredas Gabrielavicius. People were happy with the event and Zenonas Anusauskas has started planning our next event for October in the village of Eiciunai with special focus on "synergy in creative work", and Alfredas Gabrielavicius and Irena Buinickaite will organize one in December in Riese, a suburb of Vilnius, with special focus on "a self-reliance system for helping each other". It seems that people want to focus on their own interests, but I'm very interested in regularly having general events that show that we can really support and integrate all kinds of projects. So we'll be doing specific events but I also look forward to doing more BarCamps!
... Yes, thank you very much for setting the model! It really opened up people's eyes that we're doing something special that goes beyond just the usual activity in Lithuania. I was able to reach out to a lot more people here in Lithuania because I was encourage by our BarCamp status!
... In the end, two people came who were outside our existing circle of acquaintances and helped us connect into Lithuania's blogosphere (Ramunas Januvacius http://skaitykla.mums.lt ) and PC World Lithuania's assistant editor Rimas Abromavicius.
... And we had four old-timers bring in whole new groups of people.
... How are the other BarCamp's going?
