BarnCamp 2011

A Barn Camp in the beautiful Wye Valley from Thursday 9th till Sunday 12th June 2011.

Brought to you by HacktionLab, BarnCamp 2011 will be three days of workshops on topics ranging from renewable energy to foraging for food to citizen journalism to using free software for activism, up to three nights of camping, open space sessions, evening entertainment, great food on a beautiful farm co-op high in the Wye Valley.

Event registration is now open, please book your place at http://registration.hacktivista.net/ and also read this page for details of how to pay. If you've any queries about this year's event, please get in touch with us by emailing barncamp2011 [at] hacktivista [dot] net. We also need volunteers to help make BarnCamp a success, if this interests you, then please consider lurking on our Mailing List.

BarnCamp is taking place over three days, the 10th, 11th and 12th June 2011 at Highbury Farm in the Wye Valley. There's a few pages you can begin to look at and add content to:

What is a Barn Camp?

Well we just made it up 'cos it sounds cool. But the name has its roots in the Bar Camp concept. What is a Bar Camp? Well, if you visit http://www.barcamp.org, it'll tell you that it:

is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.
is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event.

So, it's the same - only it's happening in a Barn - yes a real Barn - on a farm. No shit. Well apart from ... you know. Anyway the focus is on a healthy take on technology, both new media and alternative, with a mix of free software, alternative use of technology for activism and general fun in the sun workshops so it probably won't be that intense, sorry!

The cost will is £30 for advanced bookings for the whole weekend, including all workshops, up to four night's camping and meals. This rises to £35 if you decide to pay on the gate.

If that sounds good then please book your place now by visiting http://registration.hacktivista.net/ and if you have any questions, please get in touch with one of the organisers by emailing barncamp2011 [at] hacktivista [dot] net. To pay for BarnCamp read this page for more details.

Past BarnCamps

2011 will mark the forth BarnCamp convergence at Highbury Farm in the Wye Valley (Wales) where people interested and/or working in the areas of alternative media, renewable energy, on-line video distribution, free software and any other form of activism that utilises technology came together to share and discuss. Based on feedback from the previous years, we are we are deliberately continuing to keep this year's camp less geeky than in 2008 and 2009 by having a more open range of workshops and open space sessions, but we are also inserting an extra day to allow for more, longer workshops - some of which might be geeky! Hopefully everyone's satisfied! :P Check-out what we got up to in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The original idea for the gathering came from a number of years of experience gained by activists working for organisations such as Indymedia and includes specific experience from involvement in the Horizone Eco-Village in Stirling (2005), the Camps for Climate Action in Drax (2006), Heathrow (2007) and Kingsnorth (2008) as well as the No Borders camp at Gatwick (2007).

Getting involved in logistics & planning

We have a separate page for planning and organising BarnCamp 2011 and organising what needs to be done and who is doing what. If you want to get involved in the grindstone of what's going on this year, please join our Mailing List.

BarnCamp 2011 Programme

More in-depth details and notes about the current proposed workshops can be found at BarnCamp 2011 Workshop Proposals page.

Wednesday 8th June

Forward crew arrive on site and begin to set site up.

Thursday 9th June

Continue setting site up.
Arrive in the afternoon/evening (see getting to BarnCamp) for evening meal and campfire gathering and plenary. The bar will also be open.

Friday 10th June

Hack Sessions: these are proposed and organised sessions for those wishing to get together and have a good old (tech or non-tech) hack on a project during the whole of Friday, and also for the rest of the event. The list of current proposals for Hack Sessions is here.

Masterclasses: these are long (four hour) workshops that really try to get into a subject.

Saturday 11th June

09-10 breakfast
10-11 morning plenary
11-13 workshops
13-15 lunch
15-18 workshops
19-20 dinner
20-02 party

Sunday 12th June

11-12 breakfast
12-14 workshops
14-15 plenary
15- lunch and goodbyes

Monday 13th June

Infrastructure crew: site take-down and leave

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