RecentChangesCamp

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RecentChangesCamp is an unconference or BarCamp, was held for a second year over February 2-4, 2007 in Portland, Oregon, USA. And again as RococoBarCamp in May 2007 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The cost of the Camp is paid by sponsors, and is free to attendees. There is no need to pre-register, but attendees are encouraged to enter their name on the homepage of the wiki.

It was first held February 3-5, 2006 in Portland, Oregon, USA, with 147 people in attandance. The event was conceived at WikiSym 2005 as a way to replicate on-line wiki collaboration in the face-to-face world, using Open Space Technology. The agenda was created on the fly by the participants, guaranteeing that all issues that participants were willing to take responsibility for were worked on to the extent possible. [1]

During the 3 day conference, there were from 6 to 12 sessions simultaneously occurring, which ranged from 60 to 90 minutes in length. The LawOfTwoFeet advised attendees to simply walk to the another session, if they weren't getting the most out of the one they were attending.

With schedules continually evolving at a dizzying pace, the wiki was used by many to kept track of events, using free WiFi or one of 12 Internet terminals supplied by Free Geek.

Some of the 100 to 200 people in attendance in February 2006 were Ward Cunningham (author of the original Wiki), Raymond King of AboutUs.org, Eugene Eric Kim of PurpleWiki, and Nancy White. Many flew to Portland specifically for the event.

Sponsors of the 2006 event were: ICANNWiki, IBESI, OSDL, Socialtext, Atlassian and IBM.