Barcamp Nairobi ended up being quite an event, with 228 attendees and an overwhelming amount of good conversations. The list included bloggers, web and mobile developers, government officials and students. We had people from all over Kenya, as well as a couple who came in from Tanzania. It was truly eclectic and exactly what we were hoping it would be. Josiah Mugambi has the full run-down of topics covered in each room.
Pictures
Can be found on Picasa, Flickr and Facebook (you’ll have to friend John Wesonga for the Facebook ones).
Videos
I’m working on uploading a couple videos from Barcamp Nairobi. There were some really good conversations started, not all of which I was able to get on video, or even be in the room for. Hopefully, we’ll get some blog posts and videos from others who were there as well.
- The guys from LightingupKenya.org showed up to talk about ICT and rural energy
- Stella, of Fahamu, encourages women bloggers to begin blogging
- Daudi and I show the room and discuss the attendee numbers
- Ken speaks about response to his blogging for cash talk
- Kahenya Kamunyu, of Virn.net, talks about how he finances young web companies in Kenya
- Permanent Secretary of Information, Dr. Ndemo, gives the closing talk
I’ll continue uploading additional videos throughout the week on YouTube.
Barcamp Nairobi Bloggers (let me know if I missed you):
O’Reilly Radar (Programming Languages Survey)
Al Kags (gov’t perspective)
Rob Rooker
The Deeper Meaning of Life (Liz)
John Wesonga
Wilfred Mworia
Josiah Mugambi
Clement “Omesa” Ongera
Peperuka
Frontline Interactive
69mb (poster) (post #2)
Louder than Swahili (post #2)
Startup Africa
Notes from the Road (on Ndemo)
SportsKenya
Tech Talk (NY Times columnist)
Girl in the Meadow
The Gitts Zone
Brian Longwe
Kenyan Poet
Open Source Africa
Do Good Well
Business in Focus
Odyssean
Network World
June 24, 2008 at 4:52 am
nice round-up. i need to work on my round-up, but am so busy now
June 24, 2008 at 5:45 am
A great conference indeed. I’ll have my pictures up on Flickr today. And yup, you missed me 🙂
June 24, 2008 at 6:29 am
Nice round-up WhiteAfrican…
My blog is in French so not really useful for Kenyan bloggers… I think a link to my PDF presentation (in English) would be much better – it will also reduce my bouncing rates (95% coming from the Wiki page) lol:)
You can find the link in Wiki page or in one of my comment in your previous post.
Rgds,
Peperuka
June 24, 2008 at 6:38 am
Yeah, me 🙁
How could you!!
(tehehehe)
June 24, 2008 at 10:00 am
Hey Hash,
You missed Ken as a blogger, He blogs at http://businessinfocus.blogspot.com as Branded. Thanks
June 24, 2008 at 11:23 am
Hi WA, please include my blog in your list. I am a new blogger and you are largely the reason I started on this. My first post tells it all.
June 25, 2008 at 4:48 am
nice pictures..your posts are informative and useful. I spend ample time with your blog..visit my site at http://www.durai.frienzz.com
June 25, 2008 at 4:49 am
nice pictures..your posts are informative and useful. I spend ample time with your blog..visit my site at http://www.durai.frienzz.com
June 25, 2008 at 8:36 am
The “Unconference” was awesome!.. It was good to see so many techies in one place 🙂
June 26, 2008 at 3:13 am
missed me..i mean on the list of bloggers..but i enjoyed barcamp, and it was nice meeting u (rather finally seeing white african..)
June 26, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Great organization and alot learned at the barcamp, my evaluation post is up at my blog
June 27, 2008 at 2:54 am
Hash,
It was great to meet you at Barcamp 08 in Nairobi. I blog at javamuse.com
June 30, 2008 at 4:09 am
Add me to the Barcamp bloggers list. I was also in attendance…
July 8, 2008 at 7:41 am
how could u hash? i was there…good to see all the bloggers,esp. you and Ory