Barcamp ( http://barcamp.lv ) is a unique international unconference on new media, blogs, podcasts, social networking, citizen journalism, web 2.0, open source and everything else that is connected with it. Unconference includes open presentations, workshops and workgroups; everything is held by the participants themselves.

Barcamp Baltics will take place in Riga, Latvia, from the 8th till the 10th of February 2008. 200 to 300 specialists from various fields of information technology are expected to gather during the event; they will mostly represent the Baltic and CIS states. Participants will include active content managers and Internet users, as well as owners of the websites with a stable popularity and audience.

The main goal of the event is to stimulate the development of new media projects in the Baltic states. Barcamp is an effective way to share the experience and to create a common vision on the new media development.

More info: http://barcamp.lv/about