Saturday at noon I drove to Barcamp Brussels together with Kris Hoet, to check out the goodies people were presenting and to network a little. To my big surprise, not so many people were there, even though some had already left due to other obligations on a sunny Saturday afternoon. I think I missed something, but I’m not sure what. The last Barcamp I attended was a happy get-together of presumably 80% of the known blogosphere. On this event I think I could count the familiar faces on one hand. That’s a real pity, I think.

Pretty weird how things go. The sessions were interesting, so it seemed on the breakout calendar, and I jumped into two sessions to see what was going on. One of the sessions was called ‘Shoes’, and it was an introduction to yet another coding language that seemed like a simplified version of html/RoR. I think next time we should try to make Barcamp more accessible, on a location that is better to reach, and maybe the content should also aim a little for less technical minds with more practical hands-on workshops.

Barcamp is indeed a geek unconference, but you can be ‘geek’ in a lot of other fields as well. I’ll update this post later this week with some video footage I shot at the event. I’m SO going to try to help the next one become organized and supported, because there is so much more potential in an event like this one. That said, it was really nice to see some people again :) Super nice in fact!

Video: Barcamp Brussels 4

Check out some pictures of the BarCamp at the blog, or browse the pool at Flickr. Thanks a lot for all your efforts Peter. Although we only made a short stop, it was nice chatting you up again :-)