Here at WaveAdept we love “people doing it for themselves” and especially organisations that give their fellow workers the ability and responsibility to make decisions for the betterment of all. And it’s not just limited to organisations with “power to the masses” exploding all over the world and here in New Zealand. One such example of this is the continuing rise of “barcamp” or “unconference”* within NZ with the running of the excellent OpenGovt and the User Experience one coming (details).

Ben over at Diversity recently attended an Auckland barcamp, CloudCamp, and has arrived back home full of vim and vigour to hold such an event for Canterbury:

We’re keen to hold an unconference to explore this opportunity – it’s not going to be a tech event, rather it’s going to look at business models, strengths and weaknesses and the general appetite for working together. We’re going to hold the event on Friday 30 October at the Canterbury Development Corporation Training Room 1, Level Two, 193 Cashel Street Christchurch. We’ll be kicking off at 1pm. As is de rigeur for a tech event, there will be pizza and drinks afterwards and (hopefully) a general vibe of positivity and can-do throughout. Telecom New Zealand has generously come to the party and is sponsoring the event – so a big thanks to them for that. Thanks also to CDC for providing the venue.

At WaveAdept we are active in supporting local initiatives around “cloud computing” and are especially excited about this as it ties in so well with our (and Google’s) approach of “letting the people do it for themselves”

We’ll be there, will you?
Register via TwtVite, or email smina@memia.com your intention to attend.

* “unconference” from Wikipedia:
An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. The term “unconference” has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees and sponsored presentations.

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