I’m proud 🙂 For our mobile webcamp on the 26th of April, more than 120 attendees have subscribed. And really not the least when you check out the names. Even the organiser of the French mobile barcamp Phil Jeudy is joining us.
12 sponsors have accepted or even offered to help us out. Food, ice cream, a nice location,…Everything is taken care of. The city of Hasselt even allots a balloon flight. That’s what they told me on the telephone today. I’ve decided already now that organisers can participate, I’d love to fly the balloon 😉 You can find all the lastest news via the mobile webcamp site.
And even though we have a full house, you can still add your name on the webcamp site (password is ‘mobiel’, login is ‘devcamp’, then press ‘edit’ in the left corner above). When people unsubscribe, you’re in. That’s how things work 🙂 Moreover, there seems to be a nice combination of people involved in content, technical and marketing matters.
I only hope for a little bit more presentation proposals. Two things seem to scare people off a bit: fist of all, it’s the first Belgian MOBILE webcamp. Lots of attendees I contacted are interested in the topic but cannot easily give a presentation about it. That’s why we’re telling them since a few days that ‘plain’ internet matters are fine as well. Secondly, the majority of the attendees join a barcamp for the first time. They don’t know the concept and the rules. So they decide to watch and learn and then give a presentation the next time. But we need them now 🙂
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April 11, 2008 at 1:44 am
philj
Aaaaaah to bad!
Due to some new cross boarders projects in San Francisco, I must go to attend to Web 2.0 Expo… 😦
I wish all the best for your event: the one we made in Paris was exciting, many people attending and all seemed happy from the feedback they had.
We must not lose contact… there are not that much initiative like yours and do your best to make this event last after April 26th.
I will aggregate soon what we done in Paris (pics here http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=mobilewebcampparis&m=text), I hope to get some feedback from you.
MobileWebCamp#2 soon, more oriented on startup…stay tuned and good luck to my Belgian Mobile Friends 😉
April 11, 2008 at 11:21 am
Stijn
Can we test the range of the mobile network with that balloon flight?
April 11, 2008 at 12:39 pm
stijn
I just put myself at the end of the list (nr 126). Am I correct in understanding that I can not attend unless 5 people drop out? So how will I know if someone unsubscribes?
April 11, 2008 at 2:34 pm
doriennmien
@stijn: haha, then the balloon doesn’t have too fly that far I guess 🙂 Maybe it’s a different way to let those wardrivers do their jobs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
April 11, 2008 at 2:39 pm
doriennmien
@philj: that’s too bad indeed 😦 But nothing to be done about it, next time…And indeed: we have to stay in touch, would like to come to your second edition in Paris, so please keep me up to date, then I’ll also blog about it. I’m sure there other Belgians interested as well!
@stijn met de kleine s: on ‘paper’ that’s true, but we’ve learnt from other barcamps we attended that there are always quite a few drop-outs (like philj above for example ;-). In other words: you’re welcome, we put you on the list!