Barcamps are indeed a wonderful way to connect,share,communicate and socialize. The following post might be a little controversial,however believe me the intension’s are really very positive.

Having attended certain barcamps, I had a few observations. I am not sure if other friends of mine also had similar observations.

• The initial few hours are barcamps are very popular and full of energy. The enthusiasm levels starts dipping after the lunch hours and by around the end of the camp, the last few sessions attract very little crowd.
• Barcamps are getting popular, however my personal view is that the popularity somehow seems to be restricted to a set of audiences and not reaching the entire mass. Again there are pros and cons to this point as well. However one of the significant con to this is that the diversity in topics and speakers might be effected after some times.
• Barcamps being totally democratic, there is no control over anything, be it quality of speakers, quality of presentations and anything else for that matter. Democracy is always welcomed. However this might have an impact in such a way that if there are lets say 3-4 presentations in a row which are targeted to a totally different set of audience then the one present, the interest in the rest of the presentations might have an impact even though they might really be genuine.

I again want to reinforce that the intention of this article/blog is to get the best of ideas for making things better and it does not in any form negating the idea of barcamps or its present form.

It would be great if people can open up their minds and throw up comments for making barcamps even more effective and more and more impressive form of communication.

This is part-I in this series and I would wish to add more to this after the initial comments that I receive for this article.

-H