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An LA event without EGO - VIVA BarcampLA!
Another BarcampLA is over. If you missed out this time, there’s always the Geek Dinners to look forward to until BarcampLA 4! I know a lot of people who came to the first 2 Barcamps weren’t able to make it, and it’s reassuring to know the community is here when you’re ready to return.
This time around, I wasn’t quite up to my usual “Mistress Chi Chi: GTD Dominatrix” persona.
[Last Barcamp, in November 2006, I was pregnant already but didn't know it until December. There's no way the Pod in my belly was going to be squashed into one of my industrial strength corsets this time around.] But Jillian was more than up to the task, and she presented…
Dispelling Social Anxiety & Fears about attending BarcampLA
1. Fear of not being “Tech-savvy” enough.
BarcampLA is not just for coders. Though the focus is on technology, we gather people of all disciplines, philosophies and skillsets for the purpose of knowledge sharing and community building. The use of technology to connect people and improve lives is a shared goal and passion of most Barcampers. You will not be ridiculed or diminished if you don’t speak in binary, or if you have no idea who Ruby is, or why she’s on Rails, or why people would be talking about the cleaning product AJAX. People who come to Barcamp are programmers as well as users, and if you don’t understand something, someone there will be kind enough to explain it…
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