yes, but I never understood the difference really.

ran many

@rysiek sorry for silly question, but what is unconference, if I may ask? 😉

I really miss unconferences! They were a great way to self organize and create a small micro community to tackle some interesting problem or interest, really great echos of the wide open feeling of the web in 2006/2007 era.

I imagine with this crowd you should ask: have you ever facilitated one?

Years ago I was invited to participate in CopyCamp, which was a sort of unconference about copyright and creation (including Maori representatives talking about winning back their cultural IP, a member of Negativland and a whole bunch of other interesting people).

I even tried to run half of a conference as an unconf. Target audience wasn’t ready for it 🤷‍♂️

I went to BarCamp in Philadelphia a couple of times, and presented at least once.

As I recall we were plugging this Mastodon instance I'm on now to the conference attendees in like 2018... I thought it might take off then, and was disappointed, but perhaps good things come to those who wait.

We're overdue for another BarCamp here too, although I wouldn't want it to happen if the organizers couldn't enforce strong COVID precautions. Also need easy virtual participation.

Participated? I used to organize them!

Voted “no” as I had never even heard of the term. Just googled it and found, “An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid hierarchical aspects of a conventional conference, such as sponsored presentations and top-down organization.”
Yeah, I’ve been to plenty of those starting in the 1980s. We just call them gatherings.

OK, this is too many Strong no's.

I'm organizing SocialWebCamp 2023.

I just registered https://socialwebcamp.org/

#SocialWebCamp #LFG

yes but they weren’t necessarily called that. I would also consider free-form general topic forums in the same vein. e.g. Linux & open source conferences often had “birds of a feather” evening sessions in the midst of formal schedules.

I can say no confidently because I have no idea what those are and I don’t have enough memory gaps to account for it being suppressed mentally

You might enjoy me waxing nostalgic about #THATCamp in the last (!) post on my blog (note to self: I need to get back to writing long form and posting over there):
https://www.spellboundblog.com/2020/02/26/thatcamp-reflections/
#Unconferences