About
Quite frankly, this page was set up to profit from the popularity of the BarCamp concept. What's presented here is only remotely similar to BarCamps, but BarCampers are certainly among the target crowd. Here it goes:
- Mobile BarCampers are nerds that travel around while making a living with their computer. They travel together or alone. Some may experiment with this life style only for a couple of weeks, other's may lead it for years.
- From time to time, some of the Mobile BarCampers decide to join and hold a spontaneous BarCamp in some remote place which may be a city or just somewhere in the country side. Together with locals they exchange knowledge, hold courses, establish contacts. Such a camp may be organized in a mere couple of days, and it may last from a couple of hours to a couple of days.
- The goal of Mobile BarCampers is to use their valuable time to gain knowledge and inspiration by experience, to make something out of that, alone or together, and at the same time to make at least enough money to compensate travel expenses.
In a nutshell: It's about combining Coworking, BarCamping, and travelling, at least!
Random notes
Just put any random ideas that you have on your mind into the list below.
- To find peers one needs a simple technical infrastructure, such as a system to exchange geo coordinates using a light weight protocol which can be used e.g. using a satellite phone and text messages (important in remote areas). There probably is something already available. Anyone?
- An Internet connection should always be available at a BarCamp, but that may not always be possible. When Internet connections are expensive, Mobile BarCampers may share or pass along 3GM (UMTS) SIM cards or satellite access data.
- Alternative terms: Moving BarCamp, Mobile Coworking
- Target areas: "Remote" areas of this planet where BarCamps currently are not taking place. Some of these areas may be areas with a weak technical infrastructure, but that should not prevent us from holding Mobile BarCamp there, if it looks like a fun thing to do.
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Just add your name, and let's get in touch. A group of three to five dedicated people could be all that's needed to ignite Mobile BarCamping. Please tell us a bit about what you're interested in, and whether you're interested in a kick off meeting, perhaps at some ordinary upcoming BarCamp.
- Felix Klee: I'm at the moment looking for partners to get this whole thing going. I've limited experience with working while on the move, and in general I enjoy it. However, there are several reasons why I haven't really tried out the mobile working life style yet. Working for an extended period of time without ever meeting like minded period doesn't cut it IMHO. That's why I find the Coworking concept so attractive, and I'm optimistic that Coworking will "go mobile". What I'm also interested in is exchanging knowledge and education. I believe that a group of moving specialists can be an interesting alternative to just using the Internet, when it comes to spreading knowledge and educating people. Random details:
- Interested in low budget Mobile BarCamping / Mobile Coworking, for example in eastern Europe.
- Interested in holding a kick off meeting at some upcoming BarCamp.
- Located in Baden-Baden, Germany.
- Work in the LINUX / health care area, am trained as a Physicist.
- James Corbett and Coworking.ie: Helping to bootstrap the Coworking community in Ireland. BarCamp is already thriving here so the next step is to combine with coworking which is why I fully support this idea.
- NOTE TO FELIX: It looks like you're only a stone throw away from a Ryanair flight to Dublin so perhaps we and also think about Twinning our Coworking locations?
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