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YEREVAN BARCAMP ATTRACTS ONE THOUSAND SPECIALISTS
YEREVAN, May 8. / ARKA /. About one thousand IT specialists, including
programmers, bloggers, online journalists, will gather in Yerevan on
May 11-12 for the fifth BarCamp informal conference, a cyber security
expert, Samvel Martirosian, told reporters today.
A senior Google programmer in the United States Kintas David Garcia,
an expert on crisis mapping and social media strategy Anahi Ayala
Iakuchi, as well as experts on infographics and visualization from
Russian RIA Novosti news agency Philip Katz and Mikhail Dounaev will
make special presentations .
The event's main sponsor for the second consecutive time is Orange
Armenia telecom. It is being assisted by RIA Novosti's Alternative
Resources in Media project in Armenia and Internews Armenia with the
support of USAID and SFL company.
Orange Armenia CEO, Francis Gelibter, said the informal conference
is very important in terms of stimulating the formation of IT society
in Armenia.
"I am confident that the unique atmosphere of the event will create
a platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences," he said.
BarCamp is a series of events initiated first in the U.S. Silicon
Valley in 2005. The event became popular all over the world soon. As
a rule, BarCamp focuses on information technologies, global network
and media. It is often called an unofficial meeting with a series of
informal presentations and reports. The participants place various
issues on the agenda and jot down the topics of their reports and their
schedules on a blackboard. The first post-soviet state to organize a
BarCamp was Ukraine. In 2007, Kiev hosted the event. In February 2008,
BarCamp Baltics took place in Riga, followed by BarCamp Caucasus in
Tbilisi in June 2008. The first BarCamp Yerevan took place on April
17-19, 2009. -0-
From: A. Papazian
YEREVAN, May 8. / ARKA /. About one thousand IT specialists, including
programmers, bloggers, online journalists, will gather in Yerevan on
May 11-12 for the fifth BarCamp informal conference, a cyber security
expert, Samvel Martirosian, told reporters today.
A senior Google programmer in the United States Kintas David Garcia,
an expert on crisis mapping and social media strategy Anahi Ayala
Iakuchi, as well as experts on infographics and visualization from
Russian RIA Novosti news agency Philip Katz and Mikhail Dounaev will
make special presentations .
The event's main sponsor for the second consecutive time is Orange
Armenia telecom. It is being assisted by RIA Novosti's Alternative
Resources in Media project in Armenia and Internews Armenia with the
support of USAID and SFL company.
Orange Armenia CEO, Francis Gelibter, said the informal conference
is very important in terms of stimulating the formation of IT society
in Armenia.
"I am confident that the unique atmosphere of the event will create
a platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences," he said.
BarCamp is a series of events initiated first in the U.S. Silicon
Valley in 2005. The event became popular all over the world soon. As
a rule, BarCamp focuses on information technologies, global network
and media. It is often called an unofficial meeting with a series of
informal presentations and reports. The participants place various
issues on the agenda and jot down the topics of their reports and their
schedules on a blackboard. The first post-soviet state to organize a
BarCamp was Ukraine. In 2007, Kiev hosted the event. In February 2008,
BarCamp Baltics took place in Riga, followed by BarCamp Caucasus in
Tbilisi in June 2008. The first BarCamp Yerevan took place on April
17-19, 2009. -0-
From: A. Papazian