BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants  —  often focusing on early-stage web applications & related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week, from concept to event, with 200 attendees. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 350 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia.To mark the one-year anniversary of BarCamp was held in multiple locations world wide on August 25-27, 2006.

Barcamp Pune 5 is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire of people for sharing and learning in an open environment. It is an intense event having a lot of discussions, demos and a lot of interactions among the attendees.

The previous barcamp pune had taken place on 16th february 2008 at Thoughtworks,pune. Being a volunteer for the event was a wonderful experience all together- got to learn new things ; interact with a lot if people and knowing them personally has proved very helpful in the long run.

This time barcamp pune 5 is to be held on 29th November, 2008 (till date) Venue : SICSR and we are expecting a varity any new topics for discussion. The venue is still not fixed but to get updated visit the official website of barcamp pune or get updates on your mobile through Google SMS Channel or SMS ‘ON BarCampPune’ to 09870807070 .