For my Non-B visa, I had to get out of this country, so I made my visa trip on the weekend they have #BarcampJB. However, I found out that the next Monday after Barcamp was holiday in Singapore, so this was not actually visa trip… orz  I went down there just for #BarcampJB. It was a great fun :)

just notes, i got very bad memory.

The way to make the schedule was different

At #BarcampBangkok2, we all posted topics and put on the wall like this.

everybody vote the topics interested in, the topics got many votes could be scheduled, like this. Making this schedule is part of the event, it’s kind of live performance.

Even sponsores had to do the same, everybody was on the same condition. @Gen from Mozilla, he had to go on the same competition even if Mozilla paid for the after party for 200 ppl.

At #BarcampJB, some of the session schedule was already fixed before the actual event.

When I get there (was late, stuck at the border between singapore and malaysia), the schedule was like this.

When I register via #BarcampJB website, which was 2 weeks before the camp, I saw the schedule, I didn’t really understand how they choose the sessions. Someone explained to me that they did on their “foot”, or other told me that it was done on wiki, but to participate voting process, we needed internet connection and we had to read through the website in advance.

I was little lazy, so didn’t check the website carefully before I go there, so… I felt like I missed the fun part.

Good point of posting the topics via www is that we can keep the record. There were lots of interesting topics on the wall at #BarcampBangkok2, but most of those are now forgotten, we can see some of those in the photos, and few of them are on the net.

But the other hand, I loved the dynamic posting-voting process at #BarcampBangkok2.

Topics were more about marketing, enterprise or trend etc.

You can see the topics at #BarcampJB, there are many topics which is not too technical. Those are things I really need now, like…. “How to survive while you wait for your millions”… for one month old my baby company MOZO.

At #BarcampBangkok2, there were more technical topics like… only source code was on the screen during the session, live-coding or live-hacking sessions etc.

1 conference room and 2 wings – the venue

The venue was nice and wide. You can see the photos here :) There were a proper conference room in the center, and 2 wigs on the both side.

The conference room was like this. The girl presenting is @chipro :)

The space of those 2 wings is big and open, so it was easy to drop in at the session, but because of it’s open, I could hear the voice or noise from the other side, and couldn’t hear the presenter’s voice well.

Get connected to others

This is one of the most exciting thing of Barcamp :D

Before I went there I didn’t have anybody I actually met before (I knew @preetamrai and Nick would be there, but they are not locals there), but when I got there, some of barcampers recognized me (because of my presentation video on YouTube etc), and just let me join. now I have many friends in Malaysia and Singapore :D

Barcampers

Most of the barcampers run their own business, and most of the main campers were from KL not JB. Not many students were there, most of them were Malaysian, some from Singapore, but not many farang (I think there were only 3 or 4?) and only one Japanese, me.

The big difference about the Barcampers I felt was about “organizer”. In Bangkok I felt we tried not to use the word “Organizer”, because the concept of the barcamp is there are no organizer, everybody is perticipnt. But in JB I could see “organizer”, “volunteer” and “attendee”.

And this time, I didn’t join the organizer meeting in advance, I didn’t help anything to make the event happen, I didn’t even present anything, so… I felt I’m just an “attendee”.

The way to enjoy Barcamp more and more is that being “paticinant”, not being just an “attendee”.

Default communication tool is facebook

Everybody asked each other “Are you on Facebook?”. In Bangkok it was “Are you on Twitter?”, I think. Even the name tag has the space to write Twitter ID.

The next day I got many friend request on facebook, it happened on twitter after the #BarcampBangkok2.

Afterparty

The afterparty was not planned in advance, we just moved to a bar nearby the venue, it was good to talk to many interesting people :)

T-Shirt

Now I have many geek T-Shirts. the #BarcampJB T-Shirt is not too geeky it’s kind of lovely, I can put it on anytime :)

The yellow T-Shirt is from #BarcampBangkok2 which we CAN’T put it on in Bangkok because of the political situation, white T-shirts are the #BarcampJB T-Shirt. The logo of “BarcampJB” is on the back, forgot to take photos of it.

It was great fun. Thank you for all who participated #BarcampJB, and thanks everybody who connected me to them :D　I’m addicted…

They’ll have #BarcampKL in Feb, and we are planning to have #BarcampBangkok3 in early in 2009.

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