Barcamp Bangkok in Progress

I am dog tired but so excited. Up until 5:00am doing last minute prep, wake at 7:30 to go to Barcamp.

Everything started as chaos–but people pitched in and order slowly gained the upper hand. Somehow, at 11:00, as promised, the sessions started and pretty much everything worked. Wow!

What I realized is that Barcamp is not about technology, it’s about culture. It’s about a cultural revolution, a new way of organizing and communicating and relating.

Technology is the platform and the conversation is about technology, but the real transformative power of Barcamp is in getting together people that are tapped into the new culture. It’s a Woodstock for nerds.

I feel energized and very excited. I have had some of the most exciting conversations I have had in years today. I am tired–but I am energized.

This is the network of people that I wanted to tap into in Thailand for years. I don’t know that there was a gathering point for them–until now.

More Barcamps to follow, for sure!

There is a lot to process. I learned quite a bit–and it has nothing to do with the room talks–I did not attend one of them (except the one I gave where my computer locked up). The realizations are all from the process of creating Barcamp, how it unfolded and the conversations I had outside the talk rooms.

Barcamp Bangkok: The Home Stretch

I could use some sleep. A few hours to go until Barcamp Bangkok starts and still things to do. No chance to prepare a presentation. Kinda ironic.

I am excited–and terrified. So much has been planned and executed by the fabulous Barcamp Bangkok team, so much is still in flux. Roll the dice and see how it plays, I say!

But the T-shirts look great:

and so do the signs: