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BioBarCamp, Live!
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about BioBarCamp, which IFTF has been hosting over the past two days. It has been fascinating stuff--both in terms of process and content--and my colleagues and/or I will be blogging about it in the coming days. I have found live blogging to be too challenging to be useful. So I won't even try to capture what we are talking about right now. Stay tuned, though!
BioBarCamp
In a blog post the other day, I mentioned FooCamp--which is an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing legend Tim O'Reilly (who, interestingly enough, is credited with coining the term "Web 2.0"). On August 6th & 7th, the Institute will be hosting BioBarCamp. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, BarCamps are user-generated conferences—open, participatory workshop-events, during which content is provided by participants. They are sometimes referred to as unconferences. My colleague, Alex Pang, has observed, "[T]hese camps . . . at their best are semi-chaotic but intellectually exciting affairs." You can read more about BarCamps here.
