The BioBarCamp is an idea (fed by the tweets of the BioTwitterer community) to organize a life sciences - biotechnology - personalized genomics & medicine - bioinformatics unconference at the Bay Area around the 3rd SciFoo Camp time, which is 8-10th August. The SciFooCamp generates a lot of enthusiasm & activity but not just for those who are invited (only 200). On the other hand, it would be nice to organize a bio-related BarCamp, just like the Cambridge BarCamb, in which the bio-related SciFoo Campers and all the other biogeeks could gather together.
Update - June 3, 2008 We now have a venue and confirmed dates for BioBarCamp
Date: August 6-7
Venue: The Institute for the Future
124 University Ave,
Palo Alto, CA, 94301
There is a Google Group for the event as well
Remember the origin of BarCamp: "In 2005, a complementary alternative BarCamp was created by a past attendee of Foo Camp and a few individuals who were interested in organizing their own version of FooCamp, and hosted at the Socialtext offices in Palo Alto, California by Socialtext founder Ross Mayfield, with an open invitation to anyone who wanted to join."
Attila Csordas research scientist & biotech geek blogger /SciFoo Camper in 2007 & invited in 2008/
