Last month I wrote about BarCamp Buenos Aires and other unconferences, so I'd like to go back and take a look at the conference reports. Soledad Chianese, who did quite a lot of the organization of the conference along with her co-workers. She tells of writing over 230 emails back and forth with them to get the conference rollling, with not much idea of what an unconference should or could be, but with a lot of excitement.

El sábado amaneció con un sol radiante, respire profundo y salí para allá!

Llegue y me transforme la incertidumbre se convirtió en seguridad, como si de golpe todo fluyera como si lo hubiéramos planificado segundo por segundo! la gente se presentaba, miraban la cartelera para ver a que charla iban a entrar, las salas se llenaban la gente no quería terminaran, el catering parecía servir lo que la gente estaba esperando! y nosotros nos sentíamos los anfitriones de la fiesta de la web 2.0!! jajajaja! hasta intentaron hacernos una nota la gente de perfil tv! estábamos muy tentados , cerveza en mano y todos al rededor muy relajados como si estuvieran viviendo algo que ya conocían, a medida que pasaban las horas no podíamos creer lo que habíamos logrado!!

Saturday morning the sun shone, I took a deep breath and went out there!

I arrived and uncertainty was transformed into sureness, suddenly everything flowed as if planned minute by minute! People came, looked at the schedule to see who would be talking, the rooms filled up with people who didn't want to stop the sessions, the catering apparently served what people expected! and we felt like the hosts of the web 2.0 party!! hahaha! . . . we were very tempted, beer in hand and everyone around very relaxed as if they knew what they were doing, and as the hours passed we couldn't believe what we had achieved!

I think I know what she means!


Also from BarcampBA, Giannella Ligato, from the blog "SEO y posicionamiento en buscadores," posted slides on the >semantic web on Slideshare:

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Gianella ("La Tana") reported on the conference in general, in a long post, Barcamp: balance, picking out several points that she liked: the vibe of people there, the organization, the talks, the initiative people showed and the lack of pomposity, and how nice everyone was - and with some links to posts by other attendees.

Marina Torchiari did a writeup as well. And I was amused to see my friend Kragen's writeup as well, with lots of detail but some cynicism.

I spent today at another unconference, She's Geeky conference in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum. Here's the tag if you'd like to see photos from the conference!I hope that idea spreads to Buenos Aires as well and they have a big unconference just for women working in tech, for bloggers, engineers, and others!

Liz Henry blogs at Composite and many other places. You can contact her at liz@bookmaniac.net to say hello or to send her links to great blogs by women in Latin America or Latinas elsewhere in the world.