This year was my very first Barcamp ever, let a lone first sort of tech unconfrence.  To say the least, I had a blast. If you don’t know what Barcamp is, it’s basically a meetup of people who want to learn, or who want to teach others. The whole idea behind it is its completely open to the attendee, they get to decide what they want to do and listen to. Best part of all, its  free. You also get exposed to a wide range of topics. This year there were talks from brewing your own beer, there was a straight coding session where everyone participated, to social engineering NASA and open source hardware hacking.

Now while I enjoyed every talk I sat in on, there were 3 that I liked the most.

  1. “Improving Education through Costanza’s Rules of Opposites” via @paulandersen
  2. “How not to be a freelancer” via @viss Video
  3. “Social Engineering NASA” via @n8foo

My favorite was the “Social Engineering NASA” talk by far. It was more of just a story, but what a story it was.

Barcamp was a lot of fun this year, and I can’t wait for next year’s.

Photo Cred: Tomasthanes

Update: Added video link to “How not to be a freelancer”