At BarCamp, a group of enthusiastic people gather to share their knowledge about technology and anything else they are interested in. They do this by attending presentations given by other attendees – and giving presentations themselves, of course. A BarCamp presentation can be as formal or informal as you like. You can go to any session you like, and if you don’t find a session interesting, you can leave and go to another. Everyone is encouraged to give a session or participate in whatever way they can. When sessions aren’t running, there’s usually other fun stuff happening:  food and drinks, networking, panels and many more. Don’t forget the Date is 22nd of May 2010 and the venue is CITS Building, University Of Lagos. It starts from 9am, so be there!!!

If you have never been to a BarCamp before, we would love you to come along to BarCamp Nigeria 2010! It’s great fun and we are always looking for new folks to attend – BarCamp is all about the people. This is the second edition of Barcamp Nigeria.

Last years event took place on the 25th of April 2009 @ Tom Associates Building, Anthony, Lagos. Yes i know you”ll be wondering why Lagos again this year, not to worry, we are planning on making Barcamp a quarterly thing, so our next venue locations will be outside Lagos.

Last year we had keynote speakers like Justin Hartman. He is the MD and co-founder of Afrigator - Africa’s largest social media aggregator and blog directory. He is based in South Africa. Afrigator is a startup he co-founded in April 2007. It grew steadily to a point where a stake was sold to MIH Print Africa. We also had Mrs. Victoria N’dee Uwadoka. She works with Microsoft Nigeria as the PR & Events Manager for Anglophone West Africa. She is charged with managing the company’s image agenda, media relationships, agency support and strategic events across the Anglophone West Africa region.
This year we have confirmed two keynote speakers and they are Simdul Shagaya, the Founder of Alarena.com and Chinenye Mba-Ozoukwo of eShekel.
The two speakers have firm grasp of the Nigerian technology market and will be pleased to share their insight with us at the event. To view a detailed profile of the speakers, click here

Hey guys, it’s 10days to the much anticipated Barcamp Nigeria.

Have u heard? Encipher Tablet, The Nigerian Android Powered Tablet will be launched at the event

At Barcamp you can:

Show & Tell your latest project
Run a Breakout Session
Hear from tech startups
Learn from expert developers
Meet and wow investors & industry experts
Work on collaborative projects
Meet new friends and colleagues
Delicious food and refreshments

Where else can you do all this & more for free?

Don’t forget to include the hashtag #bcnigeria in your facebook and twitter statuses.

Live tweeting @ the event with the hashgtag #bcnigeria and follow minute by minute live updates of the event.

I received a second email this morning, asking just such question. I like the definition wikipedia gives for it.

According to Wikipedia, BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

For us, it will be a meeting of the minds

# Who? Anyone who is interested in technology including but not limited to telecommunications, software/hardware, web 2.0, opensource/enterprise solution, - and all things in between.
# What? A good opportunity to share ideas, start conversations and build connections with people and organizations making a positive impact in Africa

Is BarCamp free?

Yes! It is free! You can just register here and also at the registration table and come into the event! Food will also be provided for Lunch and possibly, breakfast. We are still trying to get catering for breakfast.

How to Get involved

There are loads of ways to participate…

* Sponsor Barcamp (we rely on sponsorship and have a range of options available to suit all budgets)
* Help us organise (Volunteers)
* Register, turn up and participate
* Write about Barcamp
* Tweet Barcamp
* Tell your friends about Barcamp
* Change your profile pictures to the Barcamp Logo here

We are pleased to announce Propertiesng.com as another sponsor for BarCamp Nigeria 2010.

Propertiesng.com is a Real Estate Portal which makes it easy to find property in Nigeria. They’re a small group of Lagos-based entrepreneurs with strong backgrounds in Real Estate and internet search, who are privately funded.

They actively support the Nigerian ICT industry and are very keen on mass adoption of the internet by all Nigerians.

One of their latest Products is “ask a question“, which is a question and answer platform that allows propertiesng.com members and visitors to connect and find answers to their questions. Whether you’re buying, selling, renting and want an answer to that burning property question from the various real estate professionals, this is the place for you.

You can follow them on Twitter @propertiesng or become their fan on Facebook here

Over the past few days we have sent Bulk SMS Text Messages to every attendee asking for you to confirm your attendance at Barcamp Nigeria coming up on Saturday the 22nd of May 2010 at CITS Building University Of Lagos. To help us estimate numbers for food, drinks and snacks, it is very important that you let us know your definitely coming on or before 6pm on Monday (10th of May).

If you have not received an SMS please register now  here

Also we need volunteers to change their Facebook Profile pictures to the Barcamp Nigeria logo and please suggest the Barcamp Nigeria Facebook Fanpage to your friends.

You can get the Barcamp Nigeria logos here

Facebook Fanpage here

Thank you.

Barcamp Nigeria really is about you using this opportunity to step up and participate.  It’s a “user generated conference” after all.  One idea is to come with an idea for a session that you would like to have.  It does not matter if you are an expert on the subject or not.  In fact, it would probably be best if you were not.  That way you could locate others who are attending to step up and join in.  This is a wonderful way to gather the brain trust available and really make something happen. Ideally Barcamp Nigeria should not be about sessions which are led the same way we find at conferences.   This is about the synergy of the group and your voice being heard.
No spectators.  Only participants.
Every attendee is urged to be a participant, so come with your questions, ideas and it will be a remarkable event.

May 22nd 2010 is the date and the venue is CITS University Of Lagos.

Be there!!!!

We are getting so excited about Barcamp Nigeria. We have a ton of AMAZING Thought Leaders coming and we are almost OUT of seats due to lots of interested people registering.

It feels like we are counting down for Christmas morning and we are actually all looking forward to the D-Day

For a lot of you attending, this may be your first BarCamp. So for everyone new to BarCamp, we wanted to share with you one of our favorite elements of this event, which is the panel session, where every attendee can share real life experiences and brainstorm on issues together in different groups.

Yet, one of the coolest things about BarCamp is that it is a day to actually physically and emotionally ‘take off your logo’ and be a part of the industry to share ideas, best practices and learn from experts and other technopreneurs in the industry for the betterment of your startup and most importantly the Nigerian Web Audience.

So on May 22nd, show up early, bring your laptop, bring your charger, come ready to learn and share! And on this day, come with all your questions written down. We are so excited to have you and look forward to meeting you in person!

Agenda building for Barcamp Nigeria 2010 holding on the 22nd of May 2010, at CITS Unilag, Lagos Nigeria.

Please feel free to add more to the content below. Anyone who wishes to announce a product launch should list the product here so as to help in allocating time for each products.

We will also be glad to include as many people has we deem fit to join the panels. We have just two panels with each having its own topic.
Please guys, no “AFRICAN TIME” please, please, and please. For us to create a new Nigeria, we must become new Nigerians and to compete globally, we must operate on global time. Below is the snapshot of the event details, please use the comment box below to added to it or use the wiki available here to edit. If there is any review, we will update ASAP.

Registration 9am-10am
Welcome message 10am-10:10am
Keynote Speech 10:10-10:30am
Panel (Local content) 10:35-11:20am
Tea Break 11:20-11:40am
CodeCamp (to kickstart collaboration) 11:40am-1:40pm
Keynote Speech 2 1:45pm- 2:05pm
Break out Session 2:05-2:50pm
Lunch 2:50-3:20pm
Panel (business models) 3:20-4:10pm
Votes/Winners Announcement /Product Launch 4:10-4:40pm
Vote of thanks 4:40-4:50pm
Networking Closing session 4:50pm -5pm

We urge everyone to come with their libraries handy(or a chosen framework) as we all will be participating in a Codecamp on that day. So fast development time is very crucial.

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As technology development continues on the African scene… Barcamp Nigeria publicly support Barcamp Africa holding in Abidjan Cote d’ivore between 4th and 7th June 2010. We want all Nigerian technologist to represent Nigeria at the event. Why not add the event to your schedule.

Nigeria has not been visible in the web startup as it should on the African scene, we believe this will kickstart the effort to put Nigeria on the Africa map.

Official Barcamp Africa Page here.