The Materacamp is part of the international network of Barcamp and in Matera is one of the few barcamp held in Italy.

"BarCamp is an international network of non-lectures whose content is proposed by the participants themselves.

The events primarily involved in issues related to innovations on the use of World Wide Web, free software and social networks.

The name BarCamp was reverting to the term foobar is already used by hackers: the BarCamp, in fact, were born in response to Foo Camp, a non-conference year, by invitation, hosted by the publisher of texts on free software Tim O ' Reilly.

BarCamp and 'a nonconferenza, as usually mean by event, which stems from the desire of people to share and learn in an open and free. The BarCamp is a non-conference collaboration, where anyone can "get in the chair, suggest a topic and talk to others in order to encourage free thinking, curiosity, disclosure and dissemination of issues related to the Web A unconference (unconference) then a meeting whose theme for discussion is decided by the participants rather than predetermined in advance by the organizers, an open meeting whose contents are proposed by the participants themselves.

The barcamp are also spreading in Italy: in cities, the first was held in Milan, followed by similar events in Turin, Rome, Ancona, Genoa, Matera, Bari, Catania, Marche, Veneto, Lazio, Piedmont, Liguria and also in Sicily. "(source: wikipedia )

MateraCamp '07 photo story from tarragon on Vimeo .

Contents

What once was a matter of knowledge and friendships that allowed you to activate working contacts with the friend who introduces you to another person of his knowledge is now called social networking is the modern version of the concept of 'reference'.

This is the new emerging phenomenon of the Internet, by its nature, is particularly suited to exploit the network architecture, capable of creating relationships and interactions between people, even distant and unknown to each other.

Once you have entered in the circuit of reports generated by a trusted social network becomes much easier to establish new friendships and, above all, find job opportunities and business. Web 2.0 has become an expression in which there is some 'all: community, technology' social ', open source, new ways of using the network, applications such as Web pages, business models for companies that do not need technology for real made available for free from different communities developers 'open source' in your network.

The BarCamp Matera wants to discuss and raise the attention of business and citizens around these issues, presenting examples and real applications based on technologies that use the network to create social, economy, business, or simply entertainment.

Thanks to very positive experiences in Milan, Turin, Rome and the Marche, the BarCamp is a meeting place for Italian experts in the field including academics, journalists, consultants, thinkers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts, thanks to these technologies are working throughout the world spreading their thinking.

Such meetings are also, as happened previously, special media events that mobilize people working on the Internet, but also television, radio, newspapers and specialized newspapers.

To better understand the need in the event the Press last year, pending the next.

MateraCamp 2008 from kiro on Vimeo .

Objectives

The idea of BarCamp comes from a development proposal to the city as a whole, but also to the region and Basilicata regions of the area considered the "south".

The intent is to present to citizens, companies and associations experiences, activities and business models in other parts of Italy and the world are doing to grow new markets while simultaneously supporting the old are to the economic recovery.

This vision of development companies and associations are those that are first informed, educated and polite to new technologies, new media and new business models, addressing the major problems for developing their potential.

The idea of a meeting in Matera has additional purposes no less important: the city, with its major shortcomings in terms of communication networks and rail roads, is the ideal place to promote development in this sense because of 'emphasis placed in this field from the Basilicata region that for years, confirms the first investing in innovation and research in Italy.

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