BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
By “open-sourcing” the organizational process (=codifying it in a wiki and making that publicly available), BarCamp seems to have struck a chord. It quickly became a model for user generated conferences in other fields or for more specialized applications, ranging from WordCamp and PodCamp to Seattle Mind Camp, to name a few.

And Graz will feature the first PolitCamp… this week!

PolitiCamp will be a great opportunity to talk about the political dimensions of new communication infrastructures and to meet influential Austrian minds.

Don’t forget to check it out!

Link

…this is only missing a “national”…

More info: Link

the picture says: for our service we are looking for a reliable and young female employee

handwritten: from graz
location: a restaurant in schönaugasse

sorry for the bad picture-qualitiy. i didn’t have my camera and my mobile’s camera is as bad as you can see…

A big Kronen Zeitung (*) ad.
Arnold is authentic. He is strong. He is Styrian (although he currently lives in California and has some weird job)!

(*) The Kronen Zeitung is Austria’s largest newspaper. Its political positioning is social right wing. The Kronen Zeitung has often been accused of abusing its near monopoly to manipulate public opinion. Krone is known for spreading fear and hatred among its readers.

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Should be interesting for all of us.
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