One difference I noticed right from the start at BarCamp was both that there was an almost equal amount of women and that a lot of women were heavily involved in the exact sciences (a lot of them have no problem calling themselves geek-girls, how cool is that?).

Another thing I noticed was the ‘informal’ feeling which reminded me a bit of the Hack-Tic strain of events (from GHP to HAR); the idea being that there are as little as possible ‘tourists’ and each person attending can also be a participant by being a ‘presenter’.

The BarCamp afterparty was something else: not only did everyone dance (including me, yes) but it was an atmosphere of fun and joy. This probably inspired people to do ‘just a little bit more’ and that was well-received.

All in all, judging from what I have seen at BarCamp, I guess that if Armenia can keep itself from going under, it could have a place in world-class ICT, both from the social perspective as well as from the technical.

BarCamp evolves, as it rightly should, into an event that should become a ‘must-have-been-there’ for anyone involved with anything Net and CPU.

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