For me, anyhow. Thanks to Fred Stutzman and the organizing committee! Fred pointed out that the first BarCamp was organized in six days, which is pretty amazing. While this one took two months, they did a great job with getting the venue and lining up sponsors, and the result of the constrained chaos that is a BarCamp was a great set of sessions. I heard someone suggest that it ought to be a bimonthly or biweekly thing, but given the amount of effort it takes that kind of schedule seems pretty unrealistic – the suggestion though, illustrates how valuable it was for some people. With a lot of dedication and a rotating set of “heavy lifters,” (to avoid burnout) you might manage to put in on yearly or every six months (at the outside).
Of course, there’s also the possibility of scaling down: get a smaller venue, narrow the range of topics, get people to bring their own lunches, etc., but I’m not sure the result would be a BarCamp, given that the idea is to do more of a social/conceptual mashup (for the other sort of thing, you have user groups of various sorts). The scale and range seemed about right.
OK, enough rambling.
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