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After success of BarCamp Seoul in last year, many people requested BarCampSeoul2 again. Many people wanted to enjoy sharing of various subjects, so I cooperated with guys of Daum Foundation that is interested in NGO movement for IT culture and society. They contacted and gathered various participators. So we had the chance to think more cultural theme as well as technical subjects. In this camp, over 70 people were joined in Daum HQ on Saturday, June 1th. It covered Web 2.0 services and technology including OpenID and Open APIs, the business model for search and video service, UGC copyright and legal ...

In Korea, some bloggers want to launch free unconference style meeting against expensive, invitation-only event such as web2summit. It's very similar with Web2.2 the point is people. So it was new style event organized by volunteers. Open Web2con advocated speaking of web 2.0 by the user, of the user and for the user. Some companies sponsored this meeting, so it was held in a meeting room of Microsoft Korea on Nov 18th. 2006. It contained two agenda such as 1) media 2.0 2) web 2.0 monetization. Photo by ITViewpoint.com For media 2.0, Mr. Myeong, Seungeun spoke a new role ...

There was the Web 2.0 Summit that connects the leaders and technologists opening the Web's business opportunities. But, conference attendance was limited to maintain an intimate setting and foster dialogue among all participants. General attendee registration for the Web 2.0 Conference was by invitation only. So many people didn't go to web2summit. Fortunately some of korean people attended conference and let us know atmosphere and stories of conference such as Web2.0Korea.org, Openmaru and Mtgear.net in korean. After that, someone wanted to hear real voices from participators and discuss topics for korean business environments. So Web2Talk Seoul was suggested by Channy Yun. ...

The BarCamp Seoul was held at a meeting room of Daum Communications Corp. in Seoul, Korea on Dec. 21th. 2006. Over 40 guys came to this meeting. It was very cool and passionate. Also all of people gave a speech for various subject from web 2.0 to developer's life. This meeting was divided into 4 session and proceeded 30 minutes speech. It was a place of the most voluntary participators in korean internet industry. As followings are some of subject to be talked in there. 1. WIPI based on Mobile Mashup, WAXP와 Lifelog, Jonghong Jeon ...

It's another unconference. BarCamp Seoul(in korean) will be held in Daum Communications on October 21st, in Seou, Korea. I started up an idea to launch Barcamp Seoul and some bloggers helped me. I'm very glad to make a change to meet passionate people in there. BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. Barcampe is world-wide unconference style.

The Alternative Languages Festival 2006 was held in Sep. 1th~3th in Vivaldy Park during 3 days. About 200 people were joined this conference. It's the first korean style unconference to share informations about minor programming lanuages by korean software engineers. It included Ruby, Haskell, Mathematica, Lisp, Small Talk, Object C, J language, Io language, F#, Curl, Lua as well Java, Python, C#. Tutorial There were simple tutorials for each languages. Paticipators can understand an introduction of them. If they want to know them in detail, they can learn them via language exchanges. [Small Talk's Tutorial] Open Space Technology Open Space Technology (OST) is, among other ...