Barcamp Bangalore

Barcamp Bangalore (aka BCB) is the movement where it all comes from. BCB is an unconference where there is no pre-defined agenda and no speakers or delegates. Everyone is a participant and everyone is regarded as equally capable of expounding on a topic. BCB is set entirely in the belief that participants can self-organize, and that thought leadership will emerge from the crowd better than it would have in the hands of a curator.

History
The first edition of Barcamp Bangalore was put together in April 2006 by Jessica Prabhakar, Kiran Jonnalagadda and Manish Jethani. Ten editions have followed it, with the most recent, BCB 11, in February 2012. The planning team's composition has changed with every event, in keeping with the belief that BCB is an event by the community for the community.

BCB1 used the tagline "No spectators, only participants". This was dropped by BCB3 in March 2007 because the growing number of participants made it impossible for everyone to have a session slot. BCB's participation swelled during the middle years to a point where it started to resemble an event of events, or a community incubator. Several events and new initiatives spun out of it.

Format
BCB has experimented with a variety of formats over the years.

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