Recap: web2open San Francisco
23.08.2007 What is web2open? Well, basically, web2open just like the Expo is an 'import' from the valley, from the very successful Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this April. :) So let's have a short look at that. Web2open in San Francisco was done as a team effort of Tara Hunt, Chris Messina, Ross Mayfield, with support through the Expo co-chairs Brady Forrest and Jen Pahlka.Ross wrote about it in "Web2Open":
People felt left out of Web 2.0 in past events because of the cost of attending such a high-powered professionally produced program. Similar to how some people felt left out from FooCamp by not being invited, but channeled their energies positively to create Barcamp with an open door principle.
Last year I had a conversation with Jen Pahlka about having a Barcamp-style event in parallel to Web 2.0, calling it Web2Open. Chris Messina and Tara Hunt were similarly lobbying. With Jen's effort, the good graces of Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle, some help from Brady Forrest -- it's all happening.
And Tara has two more postings up about it (Web2Expo…, Diversity and the Web2Open) which you should have a look at.
The web2open has been a great event and despite some comments in the feedback collection this event is going to be repeated in Berlin.
Though I said above that it is an import: In all this time I have been talking to people from O'Reilly and CMP, there has been the sincere interest to bring the spirit of this Web 2.0 conference to Europe and make it a real European event. I won't say it is an easy task for them, but they are bravely fighting their way through it. *g*
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