PERTH BARCAMP<\/a><\/p>\n Where: Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth WA 6004 PERTH LIBRARY UNCONFERENCE<\/a> Barcamps<\/a> are unconference kinds of gatherings that presume “whoever turns up is the right person, whatever we discuss is the right thing”. It was initially a response to “FooCamp<\/a>“, which is an annual invitation-only event run by O’Reilly Media (the guys who publish those computing books with etchings of animals on them).<\/p>\n It tends to have a techie focus, but if everyone wanted to talk about Championship Farnarkling<\/a> instead then we could. I’d love to have a posse of librarians there to talk about the techie end of what we are doing in Western Australia. ..or just to learn from the other participants.<\/p>\n Many of the people who will be at Perth Barcamp will be the same mob who go to the monthly Perth Weblogger meetups<\/a>. I went to the May meetup on Wednesday night. About a third of us were women, and the conversation – while with a techie focus – was much more “let’s all be involved and share” than “I’m going to discuss esoteric computing things with strange initials just to exclude you lesser mortals”.<\/p>\n There were three librarians at the meetup – me, CW<\/a> and Matthais<\/a>. I enjoyed discussing more than just “Library2.0 Lite”. I’m interested in widgets dammit! I think we formed the Western Australian Chapter of the Library Society of the World<\/a> while we were chatting.<\/p>\n There may be fewer posts from me in the next couple of weeks. I’m away for the weekend on a respite camp for mums of kids with disabilities<\/a>, then need to sit down for a few weeks and do a few life-based things that don’t involve blogging. The theme of the camp is Rome, so I need an outfit for Saturday dinner. Am I going as Sophia Loren or a Venus?…oh no….I’m going for a look much more like this:<\/p>\n Saredgna – Laconi – widow<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\tUploaded to Flickr on April 27, 2006<\/a> by CharlesFred<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pencils out, diaries out – two events I plan to attend. Yesterday I registered for Perth Barcamp. on 30th June. The Perth Library Unconference is tentatively set for 3 August from lunchtime to after dinner time. PERTH BARCAMP Where: Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth WA 6004 When: Saturday 30th June 2007 9am-5pm Cost:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-41","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhen: Saturday 30th June 2007 9am-5pm
\nCost: TBA (Probably around $10)
\nRegistration here. <\/a><\/p>\n
\n(All To be confirmed)
\nWhere: State Library of Western Australia
\nWhen: Friday 3rd August 2007 12 noon – after dinner
\nCost: TBA<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/45\/136276943_998f6fc75b.jpg?v=0\")
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