A post I wrote after the first edition of
ecoCamp ever, in March 08. It was on my old blog, I just paste it here for my new readers and to kick start my next posts on ecoCampLondon.
" Yesterday, March 29, it finally happened:
ecoCamp, a BarCamp on environmental and sustainability issues, the first of its kind in Italy, a great success for the entire community.
I organised ecoCamp together with
Julius, a blogger and event planner specialized in BarCamps and Open Space Technology. It was a real challenge to host a BarCamp in Conversano, a small town in Southern Italy. But we decided to believe in it and to be brave. And it paid off! More than 80 people attended the event. If you consider that the largest BarCamps in the world usually count 300 attendees, well, it's been a remarkable success. Not only for the number of attendees, but also (and more importantly) in terms of the quality of the event and its outcomes.
ecoCamp hosted 10 sessions over 5 hours. Each sessions produced a document where participants had to write down what they discussed, why, and what conclusions they drawn. These documents are now going to end up in a final doc called "ecoCamp @ world", which will be shared and made accessible by everybody for free.
I believe that the BarCamp formula works perfectly when it comes to the environment and sustainability. Everybody in the industry talks about empowerment and the importance of building the capacity of people to act upon their knowledge. ecoCamp empowered people to bring about change. All ecoCampers have been given the responsibility of their actions during the event and after, they now feel empowered to spread the word and work towards making an ecoCamp 2 happen. I strongly encourage everybody to promote or attend a BarCamp, which is more or less the same thing. I invite you to find out more about the ecoCamp case study here. "
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