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PodCamp Barcelona update
Posted by pbcn in PodCamp Barcelona on September 29, 2011
Maybe it’s just the time of the year, but there’s been a lot of interest recently in whether there will be a PodCamp Barcelona 2011.
So here’s our thoughts on the subject:
When we began PodCamp Barcelona in 2008 it was primarily because we were doing podcasting and thought it would be really interesting to go to such an event. As we couldn’t find any close enough to get to, we decided to do it ourselves. At that time there were very few events around the so-called “new media”, “web 2.0″ or “social media” but now there are plenty of them.
There is a tendancy to do events “porque toca” (because it’s now a ritual) which is something we profoundly disagree with. If there’s nothing new or interesting to do or say, if it just the same format and speakers refritos we don’t see the point. In the light of the #acampadas, the occupations and reuse of public space in Spain and other places this year, we feel that a PodCamp is pretty redundant.
We recognise that events are important to communities and one of the initial aims of PodCamp Barcelona (along with the Barcelona Social Media Café) was to create community. However as the use of social media and “web 2.0″ tools has spread, peeps have become more focussed on specific communities such as journalists, food & wine, open data, open gov, marketing etc.
That each PodCamp Barcelona was different is something we are proud of. It would have been easy, and frankly boring, to repeat the same event every year – but we were lucky that peeps were inspired and added considerably to the mix. The spontaneous contribution by @Moof of @PBCNTweetlation in 2009 and the subsequent development of it in 2010 by @Moof and @pdavenne is a brilliant example which gave a new dimension. Last year we added workshops and cut down on presentations which led in part to the development of a new iteration of Kfé Innovación which is now spreading around the world.
The other thing is that we no longer live in or near to Barcelona. Right now we’re off in northern Europe sorting out our next destination. Does this mean we’ll never do another PodCamp Barcelona? We don’t know. Does it mean we’ll never do anything else in Barcelona? We doubt that. But we won’t be doing PodCamp Barcelona 2011.
So thanks to everybody who has been asking, and thanks to everyone who has participated in PodCamp Barcelona since 2008. It’s the participants who make any event a success and if people have been asking about PodCamp Barcelona 2011, then we think we can qualify it as that 
Ana & Chris
Quick post for a relaxed lunch
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, Logistics, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010 on September 10, 2010
Back on track: would you like to stay for lunch? Yes? Brilliant, tell us as soon as possible and we'll organize the lunch. The price is 15€ p/person Is that all right? Important: each one pays his/her own lunch.
Ernesto Sorribas at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programa, Programme, Speakers Corner on August 23, 2010
Ernesto Sorribas will tell us in 8 minutes at the PodCamp Barcelona Speakers Corner: What are the JPod Barcelona:
On October 29th, 30th & 31st, the Espai Jove La Fontana de Gràcia, will host the JPod Barcelona, the V Podcasting Conference.
The programme has activities for those familiar with podacasts, such as technical talks, current affairs, advanced workshops, etc.
It also includes activities for those who have never heard of podcasts: live podcast recordings, a beginner's workshop to show how to create your own podcast and, also, the Asociación Podcast will deliver the awards to this year's best podcasts.
The conference will also include a space where listeners, podcasters and the general public can share their experiences.
The conference's attendance is free, and it has been organized by a team of volunteers.
We'd like to invite you to come with us and to make it known that creating and listening to podcasts is fun, easy, free and that everyone can do it.
Can you Tweetlate?
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, Logistics, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, PodCamp Barcelona model, Tweetlation on August 19, 2010
After the success of last year’s “Tweetlation” project, where @Moof provided near-real-time translations of the PBCN Twitter feed on @PBCNTweetlation , we’re hoping to enlarge it this year. We’re putting together a group of volunteer translators who will be translating all the tweets coming through on the #pbcn10 hashtag. That way everybody will be able to share in the Podcamp backchannel, regardless of language.
This is where we need your help: We’re looking for two or three people willing to do tweetlations (or, presumably, twitducciones) from English to Spanish/Catalan, so you can help out @Moof and @pdavenne who are going to be tweetlating from Spanish/Catalan to English. You don’t need excellent English, just enough to understand the thrust of most of the tweets, and you can always ask the English speakers for help with particular words.
Translating tweets is an interesting challenge, as you need to keep it within the 140 character limit, but it’s significantly easier than translating huge paragraphs of text, and immensely rewarding.
So why not give it a try? Contact us through the contact form, or tweet @PodcampBCN and we’ll get back to you about doing it.
New roads for publishing at PodCamp Barcelona
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, Programme, Publishing, Workshops on August 12, 2010
New roads for publishing aims to find a dialogue space to discuss a question that is driving everyone crazy in the industry:
What the hell is going on?
The publishing market is in a considerable mess, and has been for quite a while. As an example we can see what happened when Amazon recently published certain data (in a press release). From one data item (the already famous 143 sold e-books for every 100 hardcovers), it reached the point where it was claimed that there were more e-books sold than paper books (such as in the article on B&N in el País ).
We are undoubtedly in a time of change, and book publishing, and even more critically magazines and newspapers publishing, must adapt.
That is what we will talk about: what can we do with the coming storm. We'll talk about the options offered by new tech, and if at all possible we'd love to avoid talking about the sad loss of the smell of a new book or of the happy and full live of the tree that will be saved from death to publish the latest best-seller.
That's not the idea. What we want is to see the new opportunities awaiting us there, for readers, publishers, authors and all those interested in the universe of writing, to create and read better works, far more rich and interactive than what we were used to.
Without pretending to set limit to the conversation (from 6 to 8pm, although if we are in the mood it can be extended… forever), we'd like to pose some items that are possibly interesting (if they aren't, there you have the comments, and this post can be edited):
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Literary creation and new technologies (just an example: Electronic literature collection v1)
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Epub, Mobi, Kindle, iPad… whatever is going on with the formats? (also, why it seems to be so difficult to use several formats for the same work, as the Pigs, Gourds and Wikis post can demonstrate)
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Community literature, with an without a main author (such as http://www.elbazardeloslocos.org/, a fairly recent initiative to publish a book written through Twitter w/ #bazarlocos)
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The paper is not dying or what's with all the fuss: POD and new value paths without print runs and permanent availability.
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Oh, I just inserted a video in the book. Is it still a book? Who cares?
@pdavenne awaits you at El Masnou on September 15th, at 6PM, to talk until 8PM, and further if it feels like it… ¡Cheers!
PodCamp Barcelona Social Media Surgery!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, Programme, Workshops on August 7, 2010
One of the workshops at PodCamp Barcelona will be a social media surgery.
What is a social media surgery?
A social media surgery is a pretty informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign or collaborate. They are deliberately relaxed. You will get to sit alongside someone who understands good ways to use the internet and they'll show you useful free tools. If you like what you see they can also help you set up your blog, or facebook page or twitter account.
The social media surgery began in Birmingham, UK and is now spreading around the world.
How to participate?
There are two ways to participate in a surgery: as a surgeon/helper or as a learner
A surgeon/helper is someone who knows enough about using social media tools to help someone else. Some surgeons have spent years understanding the internet, others started learning a few months ago but want to share what they know with other community groups and active citizens. If you wish to participate as a surgeon please contact us
A learner is someone with questions which require practical answers.
When?
The social media surgery will take place from 18:00-20:00 on Thursday, September 16th
Where?
Els Vienesos, calle de la Segarra, 12, El Masnou
Kfé Innovación special at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programme, Workshops on August 3, 2010
The second of the workshops programmed during PodCamp Barcelona is the Kfé Innovación/Innovation Café which will take place on September 14 in the cafe La Tarte du Jour (C/ Torrent Vallmora, 16, El Masnou) from 18:00-20:00.
Here's the post that the innovation cafe folks have written about it:
In the special PodCamp Barcelona Kfé Innovación we've decided to give another twist to our format. The idea that we've developed in Kfé Innovación Seville (one expert, 10 participants, thousands of ideas) will be taken to the extreme to create a "list of concerns and recommendations" arising from the "most difficult questions of the summer". Let's explain…
In the next few days Kfé Innovación and PodCamp Barcelona will launch a series of questions in social networks, with the objective of discovering general "concerns" with respect to the Internet (innovation, businesses, institutions etc.). This is what we mean by "the most difficult questions of the summer".
What will we do with the answers? Participants of PodCamp Barcelona will get together on Tuesday, 14th of September in a debate about your opinions and suggestions. The aim is to develop a summary of your contributions.
The questions are the following:
1. What is innovation? #KFEPC1
2. What is the possibility that Internet will provoke a real social change within five years? 0=none, 10=every (you can include comments) #KFEPC2
3. Which sector or institution needs to urgently change to incorporate the "2.0 philosophy"? #KFCPC3
4. An example of best practice in education. #KFEPC4
5. An example of best practice in public administration. #KFEPC5
6. An example of best practice in business. #KFEPC6
7. An example of best practice and citizen participation. #KFEPC7
Each question has an associated #. Opinions will be channelled (always using the corresponding #, please) in the following ways:
– Twitter. Please, don't forget the #
– As a comment on this post. You can answer all the questions in the same comment if you want. Please put the corresponding # at the beginning of each answer.
– By leaving a comment on our Facebook fan page.
– On the PodCamp Barcelona website, as a comment on the post (same format as above, with the corresponding #).
We remind everybody that the special Kfé Innovación session will be on Tuesday 14th of September at 1800 in El Masnou. If you can't attend you'll be able to follow the session on Twitter with #KFEPC or via streaming on the PodCamp Barcelona website.
(NB this event has no intention of being thought of as representative of the opinion of society. It's not a survey. The idea is simply to open the debate which will take place in the Kfé Innovación session at PodCamp Barcelona 2010).
Scratch Català at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programme, Workshops on August 1, 2010
The first workshop in PodCamp Barcelona 2010 will be: Scratch programming workshop for kids from 8-99
The workshop, led by Eugeni Català from Scratch Català, will take place from 18:00 to 20:00 on September 13 at Els Viensos.
What is Scratch?
Scratch is a fun visual programming language created by people at MIT and focused on youngsters from 8-99. With it you can create interactive stories, animation, games, music, art. Your imagination is the only limit.
The main character is the cat Scratch, but it is possible to use other existing figures or create new ones to use in the projects.
"Construction blocks" are arranged by type and colour to make it easy to follow the programme and have to be placed in the corresponding space for the cat to do what is desired on the stage.
Once the programme has been made it can be posted to the MIT website so everybody can see and enjoy it — you'll be surprised by the number of people who'll be interested in your project. There are more than 1,209,000 projects which can be learned from as all our public and can be downloaded to see how they were created without any type of limitation, everybody shares their work and the community learns together.
It really teaches knowledge and experience sharing in an open and collaborative way.
How does programming help kids education?
Programming helps in the acquisition and improvement of mathematical concepts such as coordinates, variables and random numbers as well as comparisons and conditions. It also stimulates creative expression, logical thinking and the use of new technologies. This knowledge will open the door to future professions.
Many schools are incorporating this discipline in their curriculums, thereby achieving the development and improvement in the process of design and creation. Kids begin with an idea, create a prototype, experiment with it, evaluate what doesn't work well, look for collaboration with others to finally revise and redesign.
Ernest Suñé talks about PodCamp Barcelona
Posted by pbcn in PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona model on July 29, 2010
Ernest Suñé is the Councillor for New Technology at the council of El Masnou and we've worked with him & his team on all 3 PodCamp's. Here he talks about why El Masnou collaborates on the project (in Spanish).
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