How I created a barcamp to have a place to go to industry meetings
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:55 am
When in October 2012, inspired by numerous conferences and barcamps in other Polish cities, I started looking for similar initiatives in Toruń, it turned out that nothing like this existed in the city of Copernicus.
Meanwhile, I wanted to find an event where I could listen to interesting talks, learn something, meet people from the industry. Be part of a larger community, and not just occasionally attend events organized in larger cities.
After some thought I came to one conclusion. Since there is no event I could take part in, china rcs data and I want something like that to happen in Toruń, I have only one option – to do it myself. As you can see, my motives were purely selfish – I wanted to have somewhere to go .
I had no idea about organizing barcamps, but I deduced with common sense that I needed three things: speakers, a venue and an audience. I didn't worry about the first one. I immediately started looking for the second one and that's how I came across Dominik, who had the right room and facilities at CSW Toruń. At that time, he was a stranger to me, today he is my colleague and friend .
Meanwhile, I wanted to find an event where I could listen to interesting talks, learn something, meet people from the industry. Be part of a larger community, and not just occasionally attend events organized in larger cities.
After some thought I came to one conclusion. Since there is no event I could take part in, china rcs data and I want something like that to happen in Toruń, I have only one option – to do it myself. As you can see, my motives were purely selfish – I wanted to have somewhere to go .
I had no idea about organizing barcamps, but I deduced with common sense that I needed three things: speakers, a venue and an audience. I didn't worry about the first one. I immediately started looking for the second one and that's how I came across Dominik, who had the right room and facilities at CSW Toruń. At that time, he was a stranger to me, today he is my colleague and friend .