Just less than 10 days after announcing our online registration, there are almost 60 people registered to attend BarCamp Phnom Penh. The conference hall at Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC) can host up to 400 people although we target only half of that amount.

On other front, our BarCamp planners are now working to produce media kits, such as some cool stickers, badges, and T-shirts.

Meanwhile, this is let everyone knows that our wiki page (user edited page) is here. We’ll be using the wiki page to plan, organize, and run the BarCamp. You can now find that there is new page called ‘Accommodation,’ where you can let us know if you can share places to stay for our BarCamp fellows coming from outside Phnom Penh and Cambodia.

Aside from our registration page, I’ve also created a new page that deals with questions and answers, mainly Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), about BarCamp Phnom Penh.

What to wear and what to bring?
T-shirt and jeans would be fine. And of course, bring your own laptop.

As an individual, how could I help BarCamp? Phnom Penh?
What you can do is to:

tell your friends about BarCamp Phnom Penh.

link to our BarCamp Phnom Penh blog, which is available on the Internet at: http://barcampphnompenh.org/

Last but not least, if you’d like suggest more topics to present or be demonstrated, please click here.

Should you have any question, please send us an email.

Posted by: ThaRum

We’re delighted to announce that BarCamp Phnom Penh, a day-long gathering for computer enthusiasts, is open now for registration.

Please add your name and email address to our registration page. To keep you posted on the event we’ll occasionally send you email updates.

Again, what’s BarCamp Phnom Penh? To recap, here is some basic information about the gathering:
Where: Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC), Multi-Purpose Hall, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
When: September 20, 2008. From 9am - 5pm.
Who should attend: computer enthusiasts, technologists, IT professionals, geeks, and nerds. In short, if you want technologies to empower your personal and professional life, you’re more than welcome to join this event. Registration is free.
Why: to inspire Cambodia’s IT community
What: Apart from some of the most interesting and useful topics about technologies, we’ll also provide you refreshment as well.

Special thanks to Ramana and Somongkol for helping with booking the venue at CJCC.

In preparation to the BarCamp Phnom Penh in weeks, you’re also invited to join our email discussion list to suggest topic, share your ideas, and provide your feedbacks.

Also, as a Cambodia fellow blogger, you can also help to make this event widely known among our small tech community by adding this cool badge on your own blog. To do this, please copy this HTML code and place it on your blog sidebar:

We’ll be having another get-together this Saturday at 2pm (July 12th, 2008) at the same cafe, Tea & Coffee on Monyvong boulevard. It’s open to any tech enthusiasts/technofreaks.

Why:
Because a few Cloggers have been lately featured in the news media.
Take a look at this: ‘Cloggers’ open up a wider world. And ‘Blogging and Clogging’.

Because we want to make sure that more and more people get involved with Cambodia’s first BarCamp planning.
Because we want BarCamp Phnom Penh to be widely known among our small tech community. Please take a look this BarCamp Phnom Penh blog at http://barcampphnompenh.org/

And because this is not our driving season.

Where:
…we’ll be having another get-together this Saturday at 2pm (July 12th, 2008) at the same cafe, Tea & Coffee on Monyvong boulevard. It’s open to any tech enthusiasts/technofreaks.

What:
Suggested topic: cellphone for citizens, no exception for an 11-years-old girl or a Buddhist monk.
More topics as we go…

Daniel CerVentus, a Malaysian citizen I met last year, is running Malaysia’s first BarCamp. I’ve just received his email to help spread the word. We now end up exchanging BarCamp logo on the site respectively.

BarCamp Malaysia, not a camp for lawyers, is taking place on 26th and 27th July, 2008. Please find out more about BarCamp Malaysia here at http://barcamp.my/blog/.

It’d be great to have some more exchange programs among BarCampers in Southeast Asia. We hope to have some people from BarCamp Malaysia to be at BarCamp Phnom Penh.

Written and posted by: Tharum Bun