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on 2007-05-08 by christoheducamp

Cool le BarCamp figure dans BusinessWeek avec quelques petits mots sur les non-conférences du BarCampBank ! Une page qui pourrait être traduite ?

on 2007-05-09 by MathieuCoste

Oui une traduction serait vraiment cool. Je teste Diigo et sent la multitude d'usages possibles. A suivre

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Cheap, audience-driven "unconferences" are shaking up the convention biz

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Unconferences turn the plodding, predictable business gathering inside out. They're a hybrid of a teach-in and a jam session, with a little show-and-tell mixed in, and they are attracting hundreds in cities like Austin, Tex., Bangalore, San Francisco, Sydney, and Tokyo.

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hybrid of a teach-in and a jam session, with a little show-and-tell mixed in

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isn't determined until the opening day of the event.

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potential speaker, and those who don't speak contribute by posting photos, blog entries, podcasts, and video clips of the proceedings

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always inexpensive or free.

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Paris there have been three unconferences devoted to banking and finance

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owd-driven movements that threaten to unseat highly profitable business models. "Unconferences will totally displace the more staid, big, established conferences

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Dave Winer, a blogger and software developer who organized an early unconference at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2003, believes one factor spurring the growth of unconferences is their ability to tap the smarts of the people who usually sit mute in the audience. Once someone has attended an unconference, Winer has written, "you're spoiled. I've heard it said many times by people with unconference experience that they can never sit in a dark room with their hands folded, waiting for the Q&A period, listening to a PowerPoint presenter drone on and on."

The unconference movement is also a response to the commercialism of many business gatherings. "I don't see why I should pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege of being sold to," says David Tamés, a consultant and blogger who spoke recently at PodCamp NYC, a free gathering about podcasting held in early April. At a traditional industry conference, Tamés says, "every single panelist is chosen for economic and political reasons—because they're sponsoring it or they know someone in the organization, and they're all doing sales pitches."

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Dave Winer

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arvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2003

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is their ability to tap the smarts of the people who usually sit mute in the audience

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every single panelist is chosen for economic and political reasons

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they're sponsoring it or they know someone in the organization, and they're all doing sales pitches

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such as a venue, T-shirts, or food

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predetermined agendas, keynote speakers, panel discussions, and sponsors' banners hung on every wall.

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O'Reilly Media, is unusual for trying to integrate unconferences into its events rather than treating them as a threat.

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While there's no dress code at unconferences, there are rules: no passive attendees, only participants

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there are rules: no passive attendees, only participants

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chaotic

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it got more attention than any other presentation I've ever given at another conference.

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