This is the third annual BarCamp Vancouver. This year we doubled the space available, and still “sold out”. It’s a free event, but we suggest a $20 donation which includes a lovely t-shirt.

There is a kick off party on Friday, September 26th, at WorkSpace which starts at 7pm. Thanks to Karen, Tara, and Raul for “party wrangling”, and to Anthony at Farmstead Wines for providing the wine for the evening. We’ll start with drinks and snacks, and can also use the wifi to get straight to hacking out some code.

Saturday will start with sign in at 9:30am at the Arts Club Revue Stage, and we’ll start schedule jamming at 10am, with the first sessions starting at 10:30am — including WordPressCamp and PhotoCamp in their dedicated space at the Playwright’s Theatre.

Check out the All the details page on the wiki for everything you need to know in one compact package, including the “Extended hits” version of this info — maps, editable wiki pages that you can add to, and more.

Those of you attending will be receiving an email with similar information later this afternoon. Now I need to go rest up so I’ll be fresh and prepared to think big thoughts and share ideas with people for 24 straight hours.

P.S. thanks to Pat B from Eventbrite for troubleshooting some email issues with us.

Day two of our video work station and we captured another nice little video. A little more serious than the bacon haze!

Robin Puga and I go way back, as we explain in the video. He’s finishing up a stint at the BC Institute For Co-operative Studies and looking at starting a co-op of his own here in Vancouver, likely with a focus on web work and open source.

The Chicago Tech Cooperative and Civic Actions are the two co-op related companies that I know doing Drupal related work. I think the co-op model and open source are a good fit, as is co-op and independent web workers. I’m hoping that Robin does give a session on “What is the co-op model?” at BarCamp Vancouver.

Find out more about co-ops and Robin’s progress at Each for All, a radio show and podcast about co-op models.