Way to the Next Barcamp Phnom Penh
It’s been half year now since the fist ever Barcamp come to Phnom Penh on September 20, 2008. Over 300 tech enthusiasts has been together in one day unconference style event to share and learn from each other. I am sure most of you now know what is Barcamp, not a place for dance or drink/girls (sipek srey ngi oun bong) like many bars in the city that everyone have thought when they first have heard. Until the day our first Barcamp Phnom Penh happenned, we’re all have clearly known that it is a great place/time to learn and share all things about technologies to social fun. I remeber some have told me that, Barcamp was great, especially everything is FREE! heheh…
Some of you that might still not clear about what it is, probably you missed the event, you can learn more at the global barcamp site, barcamp.org. You will notice that Barcamp is happening everywhere around the world! And if you zoom a little bit to see in South East Asian countries, you’ll see
- Barcamp Phnom Penh, September 20, 2008. Next one? coming…keep update
- Barcamp Bangkok, Barcamp Changmai, have happened twice already, now it’s on the way to the Next BarcampBangkok3
- Barcamp Malaysia, Barcamp KL, Barcamp JB. Next one, BarcampKL is coming this April 04th-05th 2009.
- Barcamp Singapore, the third one just happened last week February 27-28, 2009
- Barcamp Manila, August 21, 2008
- Barcamp Saigon, Novenber 15 2008
And there’s maybe many more will happen to every cities where Geeks live.
So, some of you might ask, Will we have our next Barcamp Phnom Penh? and i would say, the answer is Yes or No according to the community of you yourself, Barcampers. Because Barcamp is not own by anyone, it’s own by everyone in the community of tech enthusiasts, so if the community want the next one they’ll have it, if not, then the Barcamp will disappear. This mean that to make the barcamp happen, we need a lot of supports, a lot of volunteers, a lot of help from everyone. We have to share a lot of our busy time to participate, to join/share so that it could heppen.
But, what’s the benefits for you to join making it happen? It might be nothing, if you do nothing and someting if you do something. Because it’s a Free event, everything is free, the benefits is everywhere, you can get it as much as you want. However, it’s kinda volunteering work for the community if you like it you do, if you do not, you dont. (Ponte, mok luy pek men kirt te. Think to make it for fun 
Well, anyways, just want to give you an alert that we are on the way to our Next Barcamp Phnom Penh. The first ever meetup among barcampers who want to make this happen is today Saturday 07, 2009 at 3:00pm, T&C World Street 51.
So, join us if you like the event and want to share how you want the next event to be like.
I will keep you post on udpates about the event. But, share me back how you think it should be!
cheer, Barcampers!
