Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dear BarCamp Friends,

we are glad to announce, that we have received some fundings for travel grants for participants.

Please remember, that we can issue a travel grant for you only in case you will held a presentation.

Deadline for applying is May 16th, and you will get the answers on 19th of May (maybe earlier).

When applying for a travel grant, you have to follow these steps:

1. Register at barcamp-kavkaz.org

2. Write an email to Misho

3. Provide your full real name, your project or blog address, topic of your presntation and short description of the presentation

4. If you have the presentation file already at hand, please attach it also - we will not publish or otherwise use it.

We also have an Innovation Incubator - where you can present your project, software, start-up, service or anything you have and think will be interesting for the public. The idea of the incubator is to help young people with new and fresh ideas bring it to the big scene.

More about the incubator you can read here.

Please remember, that you need to register at our site to take part in BarCamp!

BTW, check our BarCamp venue - Georgian National Open Air Museum!

The only Georgian newspaper about technology - Navigator has finally published the interview with Evgeny Morozov, which was taken on March 25th, during our First official meeting BarCamp Caucasus 2008.

Read the story:

in English

in Georgian

Feel free to comment and criticize

Dear all,

This is to announce that Emin Huseynzade is our ambassador from Azerbaijan.

At the same time he is the organizer of Barcamp in Azerbaijan.

Today, on April 12th we held a meeting with the students and people interested in the BarCamp at Tbilisi State University.

Irene made a presentation about Journalism vs Blogs, which was very interesting.

After that, Dvorsky talked about how he started blogging,what his blog is all about, how and when he found out blog, etc.

The main subject of this presentation, of course, was BarCamp Caucasus 2008 : What’s a BarCamp, how we will organize it, and who can take part in this event.

If there are any topics you are interested in connection with Barcamps and Blogsphere, please let us know (in comments) and we will take this into consideration for further Meetings.

You are all very welcome !

Kindest Regards,

Tiko

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Dear All,
we agreed with the Tbilisi State University (Social and Political Sciences Faculty) to have a meeting with the students.

Irene will make a small presentation about Journalism vs. Blogs and afterwards we will talk about BarCamp Caucasus.

The meeting will take place on Saturday, April 12th, at 12:00, in the 4th building of the TSU.

Everyone is invited!

Dear friends,

here is a short radio story about how everything has started :)

The story is done by Irene for her radio course at GIPA, but she could not resist the temptation to do a boring mandatory story about something interesting, like our BarCamp Caucasus, bloggers and us, organizers.
So enjoy!

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Dear all,

We are glad to inform you that we have new ambassadors in Kyrgyzstan and in Belarus.

They are :

Bektour Iskender - Kyrgyzstan

Yura - Belarus

If you have any questions, feel free to contact them (emails are given on our Ambassador’s page).

Kind regards,

Tiko

This is the Podcast we made after the meeting with Georgian Bloggers at a nice and totally white Hotel Atlanta.

First, I talked a bit about why and how we are organizing a BarCamp in Tbilisi. (more…)

So we finally saw THE guys. Zhenya Morozov, Max and Joha made
presentations about BarCamp philosophy and events. The meeting was organized by Irene, Misho and Giga.

Sitting here and there, everybody seemed interested in the BarCamp story. About 40 people gathered; bloggers, web-developers, IT-experts, journalists (Newspaper “Navigator” and TV station Rustavi2).

Conclusions from the presentation: it will be fun. A lot of fun. It will be about gaining contacts, experience, knowledge… So, again - all kinds of fun available in June :-)

Photo-story follows up…

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Attention, please!
Organizers of BarCamp Caucasus 2008 are happy to invite bloggers, journalists, IT-experts and all who are interested in the subject to the first official meeting on First Bloggers Non-Conference in the Caucasus!
Внимание-внимание!
Организаторы BarCamp Caucasus 2008 приглашают блоггеров, журналистов, IT-специалистов и всех заинтересованных лиц на первую официальную встречу, посвященную первой не-конференции блоггеров в Кавказском регионе.
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