looking east

Yesterday I attended my first Beijing Open Party, a monthly techie unconference event which takes place at the offices of ThoughtWorks here in Beijing. It’s similar to Barcamp, and it’s great fun. This was the first time they were proposing an English track, however, there was only one presentation in English yesterday. Topics ranged from Django over programming in different languages to event-driven architectures and StarDict. About 60-80 (estimation varying depending on who I talked to) people attended the event.

The party started with a stand-up in which everyone introduced themselves, and a presentation on NGO work after the earthquake in Sichuan. After the intro, people were asked to propose their topics, and give a quick talk about what they were going to present. Presentations took place in four different rooms, and there was a total of 12 talks.

I don’t know yet when the next Beijing Open Party will take place, but I will post it here as soon as I find out.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at 6:06 pm and is filed under community, technology, event, beijing, beijingopenparty.