Vermont's first Real Estate BarCamp!
RE BarCamp will serve as the official kick-off of the 2011 Vermont Real Estate Conference. What better way to get started than with a trendy, exciting, refreshing, fun event!
What is RE BarCamp? Barcamps are ad-hoc gatherings born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It's an informal event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. In short, it's a super-charged series of round-table discussions.
The concept for RE BarCamp came from a technology BarCamp event held in San Francisco. Wikipedia defines barcamp as:
"An international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop events, whose content is provided by participants."
RE BarCamp is a BarCamp for Real Estate (R.E. BarCamp). What that means – the event is not structured like a typical planned conference. Every session is not planned out in advance. Nobody is paid to deliver a session. Anybody can deliver a session and attendees are strongly encouraged to participate.
How does that happen?
When you arrive at the event, you will have the opportunity to put your name in a slot to facilitate a session. The number of sessions delivered at any given time depends on the venue and number of attendees. After registration is over, a board will be put up (see picture below) that details each session and what room they are located in throughout the day.
If anyone can deliver a session, won't some of the presentations be terrible?
Possibly, but it is not typical. Some of the best and brightest minds attend these events. They lead sessions and they sit in on sessions. RE BarCamp sessions are group sessions. They are not meant to be presentations by a single individual. Because the audience participates, sessions that may start out a little rocky often adjust and get redirected by the participation and collaboration of the audience. Presentations promoting specific commercial products or companies are discouraged. if you feel like you're being sold, or if a session is really bad and your participation can't turn it around, practice the rule of two feet – get up and walk out.
That sounds like chaos. How is that productive?
It can be a litte chaotic, but some of the best ideas and invention are derived out of chaos. If you go in looking for a very structured event, you will be disappointed. What you get out of a RE BarCamp event is what you put into it.
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